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Overview

  • 13 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Kurmanji Kurdish, Spanish
  • 38, Other
  • Member since 2010
  • Natural farmer
  • No education listed
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

'Beauty will save the world'

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

random stories, share cooking recipes, entertain and be entertained, support gift economy

Interests

Foraging
Permaculture
Forest gardening
Allotments
Marathon running
Coastal walking
Wandering in the forest
River dipping
Beach soirees
Open no-mic
Folk tales
Bonfires and stars
Musica
Improv theatre

  • poetry
  • beauty
  • dancing
  • folk dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • marathon
  • running
  • hiking
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Films:
Pan's Labyrinth
The Wicker Man
Best of Youth
Yol
Kids
Science of Sleep

Books:
Wild Swans
Princes Amongst Men
The Orientalist
Papillon
The God of Small Things
White Tiger
Born to Run
Rebel Land
Frantz Fanon

Music:
Chancha Via Circuito
Balkan Beat Box
Baba Zula
Cat Empire
Global Drum Project
Maribou
Mercan Dede
Thievery Corporation
Massive Attack
Tricky
Fat Freddy's Drop
Gramatik
Ibrahim Maalouf
Planxty
Rory McLeod

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching sunrise over the Forbidden City
Newroz in Amed
Hid in a bus toilet to reach Tibet
Stomping, spinning and stumbling to tambourines, trumpets and clarinets during Hidrellez

Teach, Learn, Share

English
Halay
Foraging
Wild food
Herbs
Tennis

What I Can Share with Hosts

random stories, toilet humour, folk lyrics, poems about trees

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Laos, Macedonia, Malaysia, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Netherlands, New Zealand, Turkey, United Kingdom

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