Hi, I’m Phil, I’m an Australian living in Turkey.
I am married and I have a five-year-old son. My father is Scottish and my mother is Dutch, so I am a person of the world.

At the moment I live on the west-coast of Turkey in a seaside town called Ayvalık and I own a sports and rehabilitation clinic where I work with my wife. I also volunteering as an English teacher at my sons school.

I love travelling and whenever I can, I try to see new places. I've spent a lot of time in Asia, and the Middle-East as well as the Balkans and most of Europe and the UK.

Aside from the work mentioned above, I also have a bachelors degree in political science (international relations & peace and conflict studies) as well as a masters of terrorism and security from the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security in Canberra. I also for a brief period studied law, specifically international and humanitarian law.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've hosted many people in Australia but eight out of ten times I am the surfer.

I have couch surfed in Tehran, Tabriz, Esfahan and Shiraz (Iran), Tbilisi (Georgia), Ankara and Canakkale (Turkey), Amman (Jordan), Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem (Israel), Munich, Berchtesgaden, Berlin and Hamburg (Germany), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Zagreb and Split (Croatia), Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Pristina, Prishtina (Kosovo), Skopje (Macedonia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Bucharest, Sighisoara & Timisoara (Romania), Belgrade (Serbia), Budapest (Hungary), Vienna (Austria), Prague (Czech Republic) Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Beirut (Lebanon), Muscat (Oman) and finally in Cairo (Egypt) in all of those places I’ve met people who have changed my life and I’ve stayed friends with to this day.

Interests

Obviously I love to travel but I also love talking to people and learning from them. I also love nature.

• politics
• philosophy
• middle east
• history,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have visited 48 countries.

Teach, Learn, Share

I have studied health science, political science, law, religion, history and philosophy, we will always find something to talk about and discuss.

Today my main interests are history, political philosophy and philosophy in general over the last number of years I have mostly steered towards Russian literary history as well as political and art history in the Russian context. I’m still unsure as to why though.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am an English teacher so I can help you in your language learning also we can have a good discussion in politics, religion or life in general.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Monaco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Northern Ireland, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, China, Turkey

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