Today I was walking near the dam square and all of a sudden I saw this big group of people. Mostly when a group of people gathers on the Dam something interesting is going on. When I got closer I discovered this extremely tall (Scottish dressed) man surrounded by over 50 little Chinese woman. He kept being extremely polite and friendly and took a photo with each of them. Some of them tried to give him cash but it was obvious that making money wasn’t his main goal. After 20 minutes I finally was able to take a photo of him alone and I asked him, why are you dressed like this? He answered: “I somehow try to represent to Scottish community around here.”

“I have been studying history for the past 40 years.”
“What is the biggest misconception people have about history?”
“The fact that history repeats itself. Before the industrial revolution it probably did, but ever since then changes within society are taking place so fast. It became impossible to predict the future. Before a father could advice his son about the future because he knew what was coming for him. Nowadays a father will not know what kind of world his son will be living in.”
“Would you say we can learn from history”
“We could but the art is to recognize certain patterns in history. Many people think something like for example the holocaust will never happen again but I believe they are wrong. Such disasters could always happen again, just in a different form.”

Meet Katherine (81) and Eddy (85). They both became widows a few years ago and they have been best friends ever since.
Eddy: “We live in the same building. We hang out together all the time. I feel that she understands me.”
“What do you do when you hang out together?”
Eddy: “Well.. we do all sorts of things, like going out to see the movies, watch a theatre play or just a walk through the beautiful city of Amsterdam. Occasionally we travel together.”
“Really? ”
Eddy: “Oh yes! The best thing about our travels is that I get to spend a lot of time with Katherine, and sometimes we even get to share a room. ” Katherine: “Ohh Eddy, stop it you silly man! ”

“Did you dye your eyebrow and lashes?”

“No they are naturally white.”

“Wauw, you must be naturally awesome!”

“We are from Russia, but we love Amsterdam!”