Whatever Comes My Way: Travels in The Netherlands

Author(s): Roger Gaess

Location(s): Netherlands

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue

Era(s): contemporary

“off-beat and real”

from the preface:
I’d finally quit New York and now found myself in the Low Countries, unsure what to do with my life. I was a writer/photographer and liked to travel so, Why not take a close look at the Netherlands, I thought, but do it with a difference — be my iconoclastic self. Beyond the stereotypes of windmills, tulips and wooden clogs … not just Amsterdam … get off the beaten track.
I had long welcomed oddities, strangeness, eccentricities, the absurd; I was open to life’s darker face. And appreciated the arts and historical context. I was beyond an observer when it came to drinking, which I considered inherent to my lifestyle. I wasn’t hooked on accepted wisdom. My biases were real, though I tried to test them against common sense. I didn’t like the bourgeois, common life, though its practitioners could interest, if not amuse me. I liked to laugh.
Tossing all that into the mix, I set out, on a series of wanderings, open to whatever came my way.

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