I would love to get in touch with local people. I always feel like staying in a home somewhere is a great way to feel like you're actually living in a place for a while, rather than being a visitor staying in a hotel. This is the core of travelling for me: connecting to the people who call these places their home.

Books: The Alchemist - Paolo Coelho The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino Stories from Istanbul - Sait Faik Abasıyanık Life of Pi - Yann Martel Het Huis van de Moskee - Kader Abdullah The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami Nine Lives - William Dalrymple Siddharta - Herman Hesse Music: Spinvis, Tom Zé, Âşık Veysel, Sufjan Stevens, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Kokoroko, Fleetwood Mac, Portico Quartet, Orchestra Baobab, Mim Suleiman, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anouar Brahem, the Smiths, Toots & The Maytals, the Kooks, Habibi Funk, Ebo Taylor, J.J. Cale, Altın Gün, Ali Farka Touré, Eric Satie, Connan Mockasin, Neil Young, Fatoumata Diawara, Pink Floyd, Amadou & Mariam, David Bowie, Fikret Kızılok, Karen Dalton, Doe Maar, Yo La Tengo, Whitney, Gil Scott-Heron, Claude Debussy, Bedouin Burger, Grace Jones, Tracy Chapman, Bill Withers, Nils Frahm, HNNY, Lijadu Sisters, CHIC, Bahamas, Ruhi Su, Habib Koité, Baba Zula, Natalia Lafourcade, Mac Miller, Blick Bassy, Amanaz, Calypso Rose, Al Green, Tülay German, Khruangbin, Skinshape, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Nina Simone, Mac DeMarco, Kourosh Yaghmaei