I am writing on behalf of my 4 members family (my wife, my kids (8months and 7 years old) and me). We are passionate travelers, music lovers and spiritual people trying to find out our reason of existence:). We moved to my hometown (Denizli) after a 15 years of adventure in Istanbul. Our purpose was to escape from the rush and chaos.

I (Feridun) am a film music composer who create music for commercials, features, documentaries, plays etc. Music is my passion and I own a music studio that has variety of instruments inside. I am also an open water swimmer and participate in swimming races in my country.

My wife (Binnaz) is a yoga, music and dance teacher. She is more spiritual than me for sure:). She is a great mother. She owns a YouTube Kids channel with more than a million subscribers.

My daughter (Nil) is 7 years old, shy and performer girl. It takes time for her to get used to foreigners but she likes to welcome guests and share her toys in our house.

Our baby (Cemre) likes smiling, eating and sleeping for now.

We like to have nature walk, swim, play music, watch movies in our daily life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

In the last few years, I realized that we go away from traveling because of some reasons like having a newborn, rush of daily business life etc. However, this is not our way of living our lives. So I decided to at least host some internationals to know about their culture and help them on their trips. As Pamukkale has a lot to see in terms of ancient ruins and natural beauties, I believe we may have lots of guests.

As a second step, we aim to travel around the world and meet with other couchsurfers to have further communication.

All people have their stories and we love to listen to these stories so we decided to be in couchsurfing.

Interests

• books
• yoga
• movies
• music
• dance
• filmmusic
• popularscience
• orff

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, Fleet Foxes, Beirut, Kayhan Kalhor, Joe Bonamassa, Enrico Morricone, Erkan Ogur, Vicente Amigo, Opeth, George Benson, BBKing

Movies: Biutiful, The Revenant, Schindler's List, Life is Beautiful, Whiplash, The Bands Visit, Rich and Morty, Black Mirror, Strager Things

Books: Guns, Germs and Steel, The Power of Now, Sapiens, Ask the Dust, Diary of a Madman, Drive

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

During my interrail trip years ago, I slept outside some days because I did not have enough money to stay in a hostel or hotel. It was an unforgetable experience for me. As I like to live a gerilla life, I believe these are the moments that are mostly memorable for me.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Our culture, music and warm welcome

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey, United States