CURRENT MISSION

Living healthy and planning next journey.

ABOUT ME

Life activist, IT volunteer, live music lover, meaningless hater, tasteful seeker.

My travel photo album:
https://plus.google.com/photos/+MehmetIlker/albums
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mehmetilker/

Instagram album:
http://instagram.com/mehmetilker

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I heard about CS while I was abroad first time in St. Petersburg, in a boat trip, someone who knows about it.

Interests

Travel as much as I can do. Otherwise spending time with friends, having nice conversations, eating, laughing, thinking future and planning.

• boating
• traveling
• music
• live music
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Pink Martini, Portishead, Bob Dylan, Chemical Brothers, Dany Brillant, Goran Bregovic, Jane Birkin, JJJ, Lisa Ekdahl, Miles Davis, Morphine, Monica Molina...

Into the Wild, Rear Window, Gattaca, Great Expectation, Pulp Fiction, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Equilibrium, Dark City.. bla bla bla.. consequently i love watching movies...

Amin Maalouf, Cold Mountain, Improbable and Empathy from Adam Fawer

and derivatives...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Becoming an uncle and wondering.

Teach, Learn, Share

"Knowledge that takes you not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance."
Taken from a speech made by novelist.
http://www.ted.com/talks/elif_shafak_the_politics_of_fiction?language=en

Knowledge can be poison for us without experience and travelling for an aim makes experience a cure to transform salt knowledge to usefulness.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My understanding about east, west and their synthesis.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Turkey