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Screen name:

Olivia Giovetti

Age:

Gender:

Female

If you must know:

I'm taken

Travel status:

Traveling soon

Hometown:

New York City

Currently in:

Los Angeles

Traveling Next:

Iceland, Germany, Austria

Favorite places I've been:

Vienna, Lucca, London, Paris, Moscow, Prague, Cesky Krumlov

Places I want to go to:

Iceland, Shanghai, Japan, Ubud, Syria, Israel, Ghana, Morocco, Australia, New Zealand, Ecuador, Chile, Latvia, India, Peru

About me:

I'm an eco-friendly traveler/travel-writer with a passion for traveling in pursuit of culture. I run the website www.highculturelowbudget.com.

Profile URL:

http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/ogiovetti

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I'm fired up on:

Culture, Treehugging, Fine arts, Learning different languages, Jeopardy, Culinary pursuits

Tunes I rock out to:

Mozart, The Shins, The Sounds, Lily Allen, Franz Ferdinand, Cerveris, Hillary Hahn, Chris Thiele, Joan Sutherland, Belle and Sebastian, East Village Opera Company, The Hives, Beth Gibbons, anything Russian composers, Julie Delpy, Bruce Springsteen, Feist, Rilo Kiley, Sloan, Tom Waits, New Order, Nellie McKay, Nouvelle Vague, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, Yann Tiersen, Paul Simon

Travel style:

I like to slip into a place and immerse myself completely. A phrasebook helps.

Quote:

Can I use the oeuvre of Geoff Dyer as one extended quote? He's my inspiration for travel.

Sports I do:

Tennis, Yoga, Running

Favorite artist(s):

Klimt, Olbinski, Mucha, Gerhard Richter

Favorite books:

Special Topics in Calamity Physics, War and Peace, A Way From Home, Prague, Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, Out of Sheer Rage, Paris Trance, The Shadow of the Wind

Who I'd like to meet on my travels:

Geoff Dyer, An editor with a big fat check made out to me

I want to make a difference by:

Reducing the tourist footprints on the environment, Helping to bring culture to those who can't afford it

Languages spoken, other than English:

French, Italian, some German and Russian, enough Hebrew to get through shul

I felt the most immersed in a foreign culture when:

At a cafe, watching the parade pass by, and sipping something local.

Why I travel:

Because I'm not complete without it.

Ideal place to watch the sunrise:

Moscow in the winter. Better yet, just outside of Moscow in the winter. Extraordinary.