Because there is no better way to travel and to get to know other countries. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I have surfed in many countries already in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Western Europe, Africa, Middle East. I have mainly hosted people in Munich, Germany.

Films by directors such as Bertolucci, Tarkovsky, Renoir, Balabanov, Cohen Brothers, Stanley Kubrick, Lars von Trier, Fellini, Visconti, Fassbinder, Goddard, Scorcese, Coppola, Bergman, Kislovski, Polanski, Waida, Bunuel, Louis de Funes, Pierre Richard, Werner Herzog, Fritz Lang, Woody Allen, James Bond Films etc. Music: British and American Indie Rock, fine electronic/techno/deep house/minimal, Russian Rock , French Chanson, Fado, ethnic music of all kinds, classical piano/chamber music/symphony, opera (E.g.: Schumann, Schubert, Chopin, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Brahms, Bruckner, Bach, Liszt, Albeniz, Wagner, Puccini...) Books: Svetlana Aleksievich's books, Stanislaw Lem: Solaris; Camus: the myth of Sysiphos; Sartre: Nausea; Leonardo Padura: The man who loved dogs, Kundera: E.g. The unbearable lightness of being, the joke; Alan Watts: The watercourse way, Hermann Hesse: Steppenwolf, Narziss und Goldmund, Demian; Chechov: The Black Monk; Dostoyevsky: The brothers Karamasov, Crime and Punishment; Kafka: Amerika; Schlink: der Vorleser, Solshenitsin, Bulgakov, Bunin, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Schiller, Camus, Sartre, Knut Hamsun, Ibsen, Schnitzler, Stefan Zweig, Arkady Babchenko, Riszard Kupszczinski etc. Innumerable books on history and politics