After an evening spent dressed in a cow print nightgown, the last thing Lucie expected to find was love. “It was the summer of 2010, not long after I had moved to Zurich, and I’d had a terrible day at work, so I changed straight into my pyjamas,” she says. “My flatmate had invited two of his friends, who he knew through couchsurfing, over for dinner.” After moving to Switzerland from France for her job in supply chain management, Lucie had found hosting couchsurfers a great way to meet visitors and locals. “The idea was that all the local hosts knew each other, so you could recommend someone else when you couldn’t host.”
When Nina arrived with her own flatmate, Adonis, she was charmed by Lucie’s bad mood. “I actually thought she was very cute and funny, even though she was complaining so much,” she laughs. Although Lucie also noticed Nina and enjoyed her company, she’d never had a romantic relationship with a woman before, so didn’t consider it a possibility. Instead, she ended up exchanging numbers with Adonis and they began dating.
