CURRENT MISSION

go east

ABOUT ME

a Greek-Italian-Turkish salad with some Swiss cheese on the top.

We are a bi-national couple, simple people, trying to walk through our lives with open eyes, open minds and open hearts. we like to discover planet earth and it's inhabitants and we share what we have.

PHILOSOPHY

an ancient gipsy-song says that "during our life we give pieces of our hearts to other people. the longer we live, the less of our heart is left for our selves - up to he point where's not enough left to live. it's what we call travel, it's what we call death. and as it happens to all of us, there's nothing more ordinary..."

....and we think that there's nothing more beautiful than meet people all over the world and give them pieces of our hearts.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

hosting, surfing - our house will always be your house.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

İlkin left beautiful and warm Istanbul to discover the wild wide world. His first destination was Basel, he crashed Mirjam's couch and stayed...what else can we say...

Interests

laze around in the sun, cooking and eating, flea markets and picnics in parks, juggling and street performance, hanging around in pubs and bars, drinking wine (beer, tea) while chatting, discussing and philosophizing, languages and cultures, climbing, yoga and hiking, minimal instruments, books, movies and photography and and and...
....most important is to share all this things with other people.

• books
• performing arts
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• cheese
• beer
• yoga
• drinking
• pub crawls
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• juggling
• hiking
• surfing
• jewish
• rock climbing
• languages
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Million Dollar Hotel, Tuvalu, Soul kitchen, Eternal Shining of a spotless mind, documentary movies, national geography

all the music played live in streets, blues, jazz world music

le petit prince

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Met people who had been displaced, hunted and tortured, people who had to leave behind their families, countries and everything they loved but still have the courage and the will to live on their life and trust in human beings.

Teach, Learn, Share

we can teach you to cook a selection of delicious dishes, how to play the Jew's harp, some languages.

we are interested in many things: how to prepare your favorite food, say a few words in your language, how to grow our own food or even farming - anything you would like to share with us.

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