It's a great way to interact with the locals and really get to know the places beyond the sights. And most importantly is the opportunity to meet really nice people who are open to sharing.

Movies Curb Your Enthusiasm, Cidade de Deus, El secreto de sus ojos, Captain Fantastic, Stranger Than Fiction, Mother, Inception, Before Sunrise, The Godfather, The Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading Books: As areias do imperador (Mia Couto), As intermitências da Morte (Saramago), Cem anos de Solidão (García Márquez), O amor nos tempos do cólera (García Márquez), Capitães de areia (Jorge Amado), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera), Candide(Voltaire), Christ Recrucified (Nikos Kazantzakis)... Music: I love Brazilan Popular Music like Samba, Bossa Nova, Tropicália