What I've learned from life so far that at least to me it's a lot more interesting to meet people living in the area I'm visiting instead of doing customary tourist stuff. Couchsurfing is a nice way to implement this.

Music: the three most important names in my world of music are Bach, Messiaen, and Gould, but I like jazz, too, and several other genres Movies: I love movies of Hawks, Kieslowski, and Melville Books: enjoy Dostojevski, C.S. Lewis, G. MacDonald, Tolkien, Aleksis Kivi