I feel like the mistake of a lot of travellers is that they don't get to know locals and so they don't get a really profound insight into the country's culture (food, music, society) and history from the perspective of someone who's actually a part of it. That's why I'm on Couchsurfing - I love the openness of people here and I want to be open too so we can all learn something and move forward on life's path. Would love to meet and get to know new people!

🌿 Favourite books. My favourite author is Remarque (especially "Three Comrades" and "Love Thy Neighbour" and "Arch of Triumph"), Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea", Russian poets like Yesenin, Tyutchev and Maiakovskii and Brodskii - my favourite genre is dystopia (I really like "1984", "Brave New World", and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"), all of Irvin David Yalom. ⠀ 🌿 Favourite films. Some of my favourite films are: "Memoirs of a Geisha", "The Illusionist", "The Prestige", "Jane Eyre" and also lots of old Russian cartoons as well as some series ("Game of Thrones", "Shameless", "Black Mirror"). I like documentaries about food, history or the environment. ⠀ 🌿 Favourite music. In terms of music I'm pretty open to everything and listen to range from blues to classical to rap. I love finding new music.