Have surfed when travelling around Europe as much as possible, hosted a lot while living in Turkey for 10 years, now much less since not so many people know there are other places in Turkey apart from the capital- Kocaeli or İstanbul :P

ounds of nature, David Darling, The Tallest Man on Earth, Regina Spektor, Andrew Bird, Beirut, Kimya Dawson, Beans on Toast, Fever Ray, Fleet Foxes, Bob Marley, Sigur Ros, Edit Piaf, Ludovico Einaudi, Placebo, Caravan Palace, Bjork, Adele, Goran Gora, Prata Vetra, Astro'n'out, etc etc Films: Everything is Illuminated, Micmacs, The city of lost children, Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Jeux d'Enfants, A Very Long Engagement, Forrest Gump, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Edward Scissorhands, V for Vendetta, Ratatouille, Ice Age Edmunds Rudzits, Silvana de Mari, Paolo Coelju, Imants Ziedonis, John Wyndham, Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", Theodore Zeldin "An Intimate History of Humanity", Okakuro Kakuza "The Book of Tea" :) etc