I enjoy long conversations with people on anything. I generally suck at small talk, but getting better. I like free spirited people, and feel that way myself. I believe in getting lost. Sometimes an old picture in a back street cafe seems much more interesting than all the museums of a city, and you can only see it when you get lost.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love the history of regular things. People from all around the world come to your home with stories to tell, and I love this idea.

Interests

Football, keyboards, history, maps, TED talks, etymology, tequila

• magic
• backpacking
• surfing
• soccer
• cartography
• etymology
• history
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music

Jamiroquai, Jason Mraz, Amy Winehouse, Queen, Aerosmith, Arctic Monkeys, Rage Against the Machine, The Kooks, Daft Punk, RHCP, Zaz, Bruno Mars, Frank Zappa; French house, Electro Swing, and just about any tune with funky guitar riffs and a groovy bassline.

I refrain from listing genres, as my experience tells me that a good song can come from any type of music. I love to discover as many songs as I can which I can put on repeat for the rest of my life and never get bored. Unfortunately, these songs are very few and when I can find one I call it a good day.

p.s. I secretly listen to 90s Turkish pop.

Movies

Cidade de Deus, Trainspotting, Intouchables, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Inglorious Basterds, The Green Mile, A Beautiful Mind, The Man from Earth, Hotel Rwanda, The Last King of Scotland, Whiplash

TV

Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Narcos, Vikings, Rome, Forever, Last Man On Earth, Community, Family Guy, South Park, Seinfeld

Books

Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevski;
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami;
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres;
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck;
Devlet Ana, Kemal Tahir;
The Plague, Albert Camus;
Love in the Time of Cholera, G.G. Marquez;
Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk;
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevski;
Vanity Fair, W.M. Theckeray;
Shibumi, Trevanian;
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez;
Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life, Goethe;
Murtaza, Orhan Kemal;
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe;
Semerkant, Amin Maalouf;
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy;
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk;
The Prince, Machiavelli;
1984, George Orwell;
Türk Aynstayni, Oktay Sinanoglu;
The Stranger, Albert Camus

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1-month of InterRail. Backpacking, sleeping in train stations, beaches and streets of Europe, surfing the nature.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you
- moonwalking
- how to blow shisha rings
- a magic trick

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Turkey, United States

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