Since I'm mostly traveling alone, I think that the best opportunity to meet people and enjoy some time together is really couchsurfing. Instead of being alone in a hostel, you end up eating typical food in a house where people are willing to show you around. You can discover the city through their eyes and they can see their own city through the eyes of a wanderer! I also think that hosting CouchSurfers is the closest thing to travelling I can do while stuck at my place.

I don't think it's possible to condense everything I like in this box but here we go. Music: - rock music 60s to 90s (pink floyd, led zeppelin, CCR, deep purple, aerosmith, the who, beatles, rolling stones, beach boys, queen, dire straits) - classical music (chopin, schubert, beethoven, Tchaikovsky, bach, saint-saens, mozart, mahler) - jazz music (coltrane, charlie parker, miles davis, herbie hancock, gillespie dizzy) Books, mostly Italian/French/Russian/German/Spanish authors, but really pretty much everything - just to give an idea: gadda, leopardi, flaubert, tolstoj, pirandello, ariosto, Dostoevskij, svevo, Douglas Adams, durrenmatt, Philip K. Dick, baudelaire and many many more....) Cinema: again, lots of stuff, ranging from (some) Hollywood blockbuster to 3 hours long Turkish movies.