Hello, we are a married couple who love to travel and meet new people, learn different cultures,
taste their cuisine and beverages. We also would like to host you to meet, share and learn more. And lastly we are also owned by a cat named "Bal", she thinks she is the landlady.

Türk arkadaşlar, bu platformda bulunma amacımız yabancı dilde konuşmamızı geliştirmek ve gezmeyi planladığımız ülkelerden insanlar tanıyıp gittiğimizde yerel kültürlerini öğrenmek. O yüzden şimdilik Türk arkadaşlarımızın taleplerine olumlu cevap veremiyoruz. Kusurumuza bakmayın.

Note: as we are working from monday to friday we should leave home early and come back late in the evening. So we can only host you on friday night and weekends. (Exceptions can be made) Sharing cultures and experiences of travelling are our main reasons to use couchsurfing. Please do not send request if you just want to find a place only to stay. And please send request only if you have references. Thanks.
By the way we will unfortunately only decline the requests without any explanation if you send a request out of this "about me" section, because it will mean that you haven't read it.
Native Spanish speakers are welcome.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Basicly to meet with new people and learn different cultures.
For years, we are travelling around the world together and sometimes alone. We always want to learn the local people's lifestyle in those countries and so we also want to show our culture and knowledge with the ones who comes to Ankara, Turkey. Our (Mehmet's and mine) both cultures are distinctive and belong to other parts of Turkey.

Interests

Learning to play ukulele
Playing basketball
Learning new languages
Learning and cooking new cuisine

• hiking
• basketball
• sightseeing
• trekking
• travelling around the world
• learning new cultures
• tasting new food

Music, Movies, and Books

There are many, hard to pick but these comes to our mind first:

Favorite authors; Amin Malouf, Haruki Murakami, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jared Diamond

Favorite cinema directors: Wes Anderson, Guy Ritchie, David Lynch, Xavier Dolan, Hayao Miyazaki

Favorite singers: Andrea Bocelli, PJ Harvey, Rammstein, Pavarotti, Cecilia Bartoli, Ane Brun, Arctic Monkeys, ACDC, Bebe, Eddie Vedder, Gogol Bordello, Postmodern Jukebox, The XX, Queen, La Caravane Passe, Parov Stelar, Regina Spektor and for genres Caucasian Ethnic Musics

We also have an old style vinyl player at home.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelling all around Japan on our honeymoon for 16 days.
Staying in nomadic gers for 12 days in Mongolia. Also being chased by two giant shepherd's dogs to death under heavy fog and rain in Orkhon valley.
Experiencing amazing and rare nature of Iceland for two weeks.
Hiking 145km in Triglav Slovenia for 7 days.
Backpacking Central and South America for 6 months.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: we can give an insight to mixed cultural background of two of us who grew in different parts of Turkey. We can teach Turkish. We can cook together so you can experience and learn Turkish cuisine.
Learn: new experiences, cultures and cuisines of other countries.
Share: Our traditional food, our lovely home and our landlady cat.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Experiences in the countries that we travelled and our traditional food.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Peru, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey