In my first year of hosting, I got a booking from a guest whose profile photo was of them squatted down, holding a basket of tomatoes and looking up at the camera. Longish curly blond hair, said they were an organic gardener. It looked like a good-looking, hippyish man in his mid-late thirties, and the name was Elia. I’d only had female guests up to that point, so was kind of excited about seeing what hosting a male guest would be like.
When the guest arrived, it turned out to be a woman in her forties! I could see it was the same person as in the photo, which was taken from a weird angle, but I was so surprised! I almost right away told her what I had assumed and we both had a good laugh over it. Her name was actually Elizabeth, but she goes by Elia, which to me is a man’s name.
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