HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I've surfed and hosted. A museum or mountain can be nice to visit but the real value of traveling is meeting new people with different ideas and stories. Couchsurfing is very good at breaking the barrier of seeing someone as a stranger. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE all nice, some fantastic.

Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Inception, Television: Louis Theroux, the Wire, True Detective, Flight of the Conchords, Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog. Music: Radiohead, the Shins, Flight of the Conchords, Tool, Porcupine Tree, Sufjan Stevens, the Beatles, Explosions in the Sky, Maserati, Bjork, Emiliana Torrini, Voicst, Boards of Canada, Mogwai, Sigur Ros. Books: Stephen Fry, Vikram Seth, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker (Dutch authors: Harry Mulisch, Midas Dekkers, Maarten van Rossem) popular science in general.