-Retired government employee
-Political color: social democrat
-Religion: None (agnostic)
-Left handed
-Preference for simplicity
-Modest beer drinker
-Non smoker

Looking for casual e-mail correspondence with females any age.

I want to emphasize that I am NOT looking for a future partner.

I will not answer to obvious scammers or romantic proposals

World history
East Asian cultures
Sports (mainly baseball and long track speed skating on ice

About the Dutch team in World Baseball Classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO7Zbv2scpE

long track speed skating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjM8aizzMWY

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, John Mellencamp....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3_1_0ZCCYw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK_eg6nLD5U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1AyA3X_vQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzghMfV8osA

Contemporary from Dutch soil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvCL3wYBvac

My favorite singer/songwriter song of the 1980's!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLhdbqEg34o

Band of Brothers

MSNBC Countdown, with Keith Olbermann and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show

British comedy and American comedy series like Tw0 And A Half Men with Charlie Sheen.

Talk shows (but NOT Dr. Phil) and interviews (with persons that matter).

Novels with a setting in history or in the Far East, like those written by James Clavell or James Michener (Shogun, Tai-Pan, Noble House, Hawaii, Centennial, the Covenant)

No quotes. Instead, here's a collection of views of my home town....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gibh_Vjaco