of OwnersCédric, the grandson of the founders of Somewhere-Special, with whom he had a strong connection, decided to take over the management of the house rentals after Sylvia.
I have always loved to travel, meet new people, practice outside sport, discover nature and create adventures. I want to promote ecological and nature traveling and be a change actor to make a difference in the mentalities starting by the moment you are in holiday when you are open to try something different. I wanted to be an entrepreneur but didn’t know which product to develop. Nowadays I promote mostly the natural environment.
My family has always been spread all over the place, so I see the world as one big unity and I have always loved travelling alone.
During my engineering studies, I got to know BEST, the Board of European Students of Technology. What was speaking to me was the fact that you could join events alone if your friends were not available and meet your future BEST friends ;-) This has probably changed my life. I experienced connecting easily with students from every country in Europe while traveling cheap, staying, eating, and discovering places with strangers. The only thing which you would trust is the student’s association to bring together similar minds and interests. You bond together when you are far away from everything you know. I got in touch with extreme kindness, and open, warm, and welcoming people and saw the best side of humanity: sharing is caring. I started to enjoy getting lost in new cities, staying at hostels, and meeting new people. I got introduced to Couchsurfing, which is similar but on a worldwide level and with all kinds of people. I wanted to find a way to mix the Airbnb with the Couchsurfing spirit.
In 2017 the idea of having a hostel started to make sense, being the ultimate combination of everything I like to do, and Nature Point X was born. X for all the experiences, localized around an accommodation point in or close to nature.
I wanted to organize thematic holiday weeks around sport, culture, art, nature, cooking, music, environmental cleaning actions, recycling, eco-construction, reducing your ecological footprint,... together with local people and their skills. I think exchange is a good thing and we should learn from each other’s expertise and experiences. Making the world a better place, spread by one traveler at a time ;-) I started with the community of the Amantes da Ria Formosa. Then came the time that the association of French Umami got born with exchange between locals and travelers featuring a cook, musicians and artists. The next big project is the development of a new kite hostel in Fuseta.
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