Travelling is great, and meeting with local people is one of the best ways to get to know the place and culture :)

Books: Confessions (Cabre), Birdy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Resurrection, Hard to Be a God, Lord Jim, Cat's Craddle, Lord of the Flies, The Glass Bead Game, In the First Circle, The Plague, Brave New World, Dostoyevsky, Steinbeck, Tolkien. Movies: The Seventh Seal, Fight Club, Shawshank Redemption, Adam's Apples, The Deer Hunter, The Thin Red Line, Once Upon a Time in America, The Act of Killing, Mary and Max, Dead Man, Moon, Dogville, Mystic River, The Lobster, Blade Runner, Loving Vincent. My music preferences vary a lot, depending on the mood and what I am doing at the time. Lately I listen mostly: Villagers, Ben Howard, Mozart, Fleet Foxes, alt-J, Black Sabbath, Portico Quartet, Paolo Nuntini, Leonard Cohen, Кино.