but we did take photos and also wrote down where everything was purchased and for how much. So hopefully you'll all still enjoy this 
! Sorry that it won't have the latest strains or anything like that, very late at putting this together lol.This was my 7th pilgrimage to the holy land and my girlfriends 5th pilgrimage but our 1st trip together
! She had never been to most of the coffeeshops I always go to because she had always stayed by the Melkweg so the coffeeshops she always goes to I had never been in so we decided to take each other to our own designated coffeeshops over the course of the couple of days we had. Day 1
Landed in Amsterdam at roughly 10:00am after an uneventful flight
ran straight off the plane to try and make it through as quickly as possible, dodging the people who apparently have no where to be that walk at snails pace but also running (fast walk lol) past the people who are walking to their terminal to get back on a plane to go home. The looks on these peoples faces are just full of sadness. Understandably! Get through customs no problem and straight down to the platform waiting for the last magical part of the journey to begin. Luckily it didn't take long and I think maybe 4 minutes later we were en route to Amsterdam Centraal! Don't you just love Dutch transport, not once have I ever had a late train or had to wait longer than 20 minutes or so for a train. Arrive at Centraal and quickly scramble towards the exit, as soon as we're outside my pace quickens immediately and I'm soon leaving the lady behind. I've got Voyagers on my mind but I reluctantly stop and pace on the spot as she catches me up. So close to that first smoke of the trip!
Voyagers!! Always my first stop if I don't arrive early. This is the first time the lady has ever been in Voyagers, I can't wait for her to read the menu so I let her read it first and choose her first purchase of our trip, as she's asking I'm eyeing up the other menu on the counter scouting what to go for. Then I see it, a strain I haven't had since December 2014 (I think it was that trip lol) Notorious OG. 1g of that for me and the lady goes for 1g of Crocketts Dawg. Notorious OG was €13.50 p/g and the Crocketts Dawg was €15 p/g. Weed purchased I look into the smoke box, no room. First time I've ever been to Amsterdam and not got a seat straight away with my first purchase, I've been lucky I guess?
Slightly confused with our predicament we head back outside and pull the ACD Coffeeshop map out my bag that I printed at home before hand and have a butchers. I wanted to go Green Place on this trip to purchase some of their Cheesecake Hash. First time in Green Place for the both of us and were happy to find it empty. We walked on in and were not greeted by the budtenders lol, I was expecting this though as I've read a fair wack of the Green Place review page over the years lol. Purchased 2 grams of the Cheesecake Hash and 2 strawberry loozas. I think the loozas were €2.50 possibly €3 each but who cares we're on holiday
! The Cheesecake was €14 p/g. Grabbed the window seat booth thing and tucked in to the Cheesecake, first time I've smoked hash as my first smoke in Amsterdam and I think I'll probably do it again. It smoked lovely but very very sticky on the fingers and the rizzla paper, was a tricky bastard to roll lol. Zoned me out a little bit because I just stared watching the Italian football that was on the TV, I think AC Milan. Love me some football, especially continental football as the Champions League isn't on free TV anymore. Zoot smoked and loozas drank we say our thank-yous and goodbyes but are ignored, made me giggle.Back out into the Amsterdam air and the weather is really nice, the sun is shining! We decide to head over to the hotel to drop our bags off. We do a right and then another right and maybe even another right? We end up walking past Jolly Joker and we're back outside Green Place again. What the fuck is going on. I'm sure we've done a loop, too many rights. We're both laughing now, rolling our hand luggage suitcases behind us. I'm looking at the map trying to get out of this maze. I'm now wondering whether my other 6 trips in the past were just dreams lol. I look up and the first thing I see is a lady in a window, I don't know what to do or where to look so I just start laughing again. My lady looks at me to see what I'm laughing at, obviously realising what my awkward laughing was all about and then starts laughing at me! I can't believe how much we've laughed and we've smoked 1 joint. A hash joint.
We walk through Warmoesstraat
What was left of Stones
Babas - If you didn't know it was there before you definitely wouldn't know now
The notice on 420 cafe's door (de Kuil)
Finally the hotel is on the horizon. Quentin Arrive on Haarlemmerstraat, I've always stayed in this hotel, you can smoke in the rooms with the windows open and theres coffeeshops on it's doorstep! Things get strange for me now as I walked up to the hotel I notice the reception area is now a restaurant with a fair few locals in it. I stand outside looking in, my lady is convinced I've fucked up, Green place loop all over again she's thinking. Fuck this, I'm right, I know I'm right I go to walk in fully bearing in mind I'm going to have to maneuver my suitcase through chairs and tables whilst people are dining. As I take my first few steps inside I hear her say babe! I turn around and she's pointing down a side road inbetween Popeye coffeeshop and the restaurant I'm standing in. I slowly move back out and see a reception sign on a wall down the road a little bit, we walk in and the new reception desk is just at the bottom of the staircase that leads up to the rooms and when I say at the bottom of the stairs it's like 2 foot away from the bottom step. All we wanted to do was drop our bags off but the man on reception let us check in early as our room was ready, bonus!
Up we went and the room was on the good side so we had the big double windows that you can look out onto the Haarlemmerstraat inbetween Dampkring 2 and Greenhouse. Good view into Dampkring!
Dampkring 2
Time to try the weed
I roll a Notorious OG spliff and a Crocketts Dawg spliff and reach for the TV remote. Another reason why I like this hotel is there's comedy central on the tele, in English. Family guy and South Park are on throughout the day! But there's no remote anywhere, I make my way back to reception to get a remote and the bloke gives me 3 "try all of them". The last one I try works, always the way isn't it? I spark the Notorious and the lady sparks the Crocketts Dawg. Dread runs through me now, no comedy central. The only English speaking channels are BBC World news or CNN. I get a glimpse of hope when I see How I Met Your Mother only for it to be dubbed over in Dutch. Shit son. Oh well these joints are absolutely gorgeous! So much flavour! At this point we're both in smoking mode and out comes the Cheesecake again but I'd say at least half of it is stuck to the baggy now. I scrape as much as I can off the baggy only for it to get stuck all over my fingers and thumb. I put as much as I can into a joint and top it up with some Crocketts Dawg. This baggy stays with me until the second night because I some how think keeping it my pocket will make it get less sticky lol. Unfortunately I realise this isn't going to be the case. It smokes wonderfully and it tastes really nice, our mouths start to water because we rarely get flavours like this in England. Amsterdam baby! The Cheesecake really was such a nice hash, I would've bought a lot more if I had a fridge. Munchies takes hold now so it's time to leave to go to Barney's for a full English breakfast and another smoke of course.
Notorious OG
Crocketts Dawg
Sticky icky Cheesecake
Sticky finger and thumb
Couple of minutes later and we're walking into Barney's Uptown. I like the chilled bar vibe it has, it's quite a swanky place for me lol. Two full English breakfasts are ordered alongside two lattes.
Barneys Uptown
We're just about to roll up a spliff when we realise we only have a smoke left! just one! Luckily Barney's is over the road so I quickly pop out before the food arrives leaving my lady to skin up the last Notorious OG. For some reason we didn't go back to Voyagers on this trip, really not sure why!
Walk into Barney's Coffeeshop and glance at the menu, Tangerine Dream and Vanilla Kush catch my eye so I inquire with the budtender but he tells me the Vanilla Kush is out but not to worry because it'll be restocked in half an hour
he then opens the tub of Tangerine Dream and the smell hit my nose straight away, super sweet! Dense nuggs with orange hairs! A gram of that please mate. Quickly pay up and it's 16euros p/g. I walk back over to join my lady and she passes me the Notorious OG joint, I like this weed a lot. I can't really describe the flavour other than different, it just tastes different but a good sort of different lol. The food doesn't take long to arrive and we're both greeted by the cocktail sausages that I always forget about. What's wrong with a normal size sausage? Food ate and lattes drunk we pay up and leave, the food was nice but it would cost no more than £5 at home. Oh well we're on holiday! (that sentence gets repeated a fair few times this trip haha). Walking out of Uptown I look at Barney's again and remember the Vanilla Kush. I'd say it's been at least 45 minutes now. Walk in and the budtender recognises me and reaches for the Vanilla Kush, just as good as I remembered it to be. The flavour of it really is top notch for me and I buy it every trip. Ask for 2g at €15 p/g whilst still looking at the menu, the hash section. This is the point where I became a little less fond for Barney's Coffeeshop, I thought to myself fair play he's remembered me and knows I'm back for the Kush so I thought I'd ask his recommendation for a nice hash, well he points to a hash that I can't recall the name of but it was like €26 p/g. I'm sure it was that expensive, didn't write it down because it didn't get purchased lol. Bought Melana Cream instead at still a high price of €18 p/g. I'll admit it, I got done. Worst smoke of the trip.
I can't get hash in England, so I'm really a novice when it comes to it. My first hash in Amsterdam was from Greenhouse Lounge and it was Super Lemon Haze Cream and that's the next stop on this trip folks.
Greenhouse Lounge, the lady has never been in and has never witnessed the fish tank in the floor. I tell her to go have a look as I wait in line at the counter. Super Lemon Haze Cream is still on the menu so when it's my turn I ask to have a look, it's a lot different this trip. It used to be a dark brown colour that used to be very pliable that you could roll into snakes. Well this time it was a much blonder piece of hash that crumbled. Still had that lovely citrus smell though so a gram was purchased at €18 p/g. My lady comes back over just as I'm paying and we leave. It was very busy in there, didn't want to look for seats.
Walk back up Haarlemerstaat and into Dampkring 2. I really like this coffeeshop, it will always hold a place in my heart no matter what. It was my first ever coffeeshop, need I say more? (the first ever time I went in I didn't notice the menu at all, just saw the little buds that are sunk into the counter and chose one of them lol. It was only the next time in there I noticed the menu with like 12 more strains on hahaha).
My turn at the counter and I notice a lot more hashes on the menu that are not Riffman. Interesting! Ask to see the 24K Kush hash and the Pineapple Kush hash. They're both super fruity in smell so I buy a gram of each, the 24K Kush hash was €10 p/g and the Pineapple Kush hash was €14 p/g. Head upstairs to the top floor to see if the window table is available but it's not. I do love looking out of that open window down onto the Halemmerstraat and people watching. We sit down on the long cushioned seat with a table each in front of us. I like these single tables. A lot of room just for me! We proceed to skin up a Tangerine Dream with a healthy layer of the 24K Kush hash on top. It doesn't take long for the waitress to come over and take our orders. We both have the hot chocolates because I want my lady to see the chocolate on a stick hot chocolate even though it's not all that lol. The joint is superb, very flavoursome. It's a nice sweet taste. We stirred our chocolate sticks and drank them whilst we finish off our zoot. We decide to leave and head for Albert Heijn for hotel munchies!
Tangerine Dream
Pineapple Kush Hash
We get a basket, I love these baskets! They have wheels and a long handle! I tell the lady that I'd happily do the shopping at home if it was as fun as shopping in Amsterdam. No wheel baskets in Tescos lol. We stock up on the usual bits and pieces, crisps, chocolate and chocomel. Fortunately for us one of the staff comes up to us with two cartons of chocomel and says this is want you need, you have the 50% less fat cartons, take these. What a bloke! Dutch people are so nice!
Munchies
Back to the hotel now to chill and smoke more of the stash. My lady decides to have a nap so I get out the baggies and proceed to skin a couple of spliffs. Vanilla Kush and the Pineapple Kush hash are next up to try. This was a really nice spliff and the Pineapple Kush shone through quite nicely. There was a lot more of a fruity flavour to the smoke than I was expecting. Very nice smokes. I decide now to chose between BBC World news or CNN. Decisions decisions ay people? BBC gets chosen because I'm British. If I was from the US it probably would've been CNN lol. I decide to wake my lady up from her nap and tell her I'm getting in the shower to freshen up. She does the same lol. Both freshened up we decide to head back out because I want to take the lady to Prix Di'Ami to show her the 3D film room with the sofa bed things.
As we're walking we walk past Dampkring 2 and up past Picasso coffeeshop. Looking to my right I see the defunct Rokerij just sat there still. I have never been to Amsterdam when this chain was actually open but every time I have come to Amsterdam the building just sits there. How can that be? I mean with Babas already being done up as well as Stones, why are people just letting the Rokerij sit there derelict. Confuses me!
Anyway we walk past the Wonder Bar and Lost in Amsterdam all in pursuit of that neon pink coffeeshop.
Prix Di'Ami! Now I know this coffeeshop isn't a favourite on this forum but I actually really like the chilled vibe it is. The doorman isn't as bad as what people think. On a previous trip I had some banter with him as I didn't want to leave my luggage with him so he proceeded to say Aston Villa why you so chicken? You not think I look after your stuff? Don't be chicken Aston Villa! Hahaha. I always find the hazes to be a nice smoke from here whether it's the AMG Haze or the S5 Haze. I don't purchase anything though as our pockets are still bulging from the weed and hash purchased else where. It's not a rule to buy weed in this coffeeshop as long as you buy a drink. The waitresses are always on you though when your drink is finished but I don't mind that because we're on holiday! Lol. We make our way to the third floor but no beds are free so we sit on one of the sofas and wait for a sofa bed to free up. The waitress comes over and the lady and I are quite hungry. I have the cheese burger and the lady has a bowl of cheesy nachos! We both order two grape Fernández and start skinning up. I've never tried grape soda before but I must say it really is tasty! Food comes and gets demolished and two more grape sodas are ordered. More smoking commences. I really love this city. Just as we're about to give up on a sofa bed Top Gun comes on and all of a sudden three sofa beds become available. These 18 year olds can't appreciate a good 80s film can they hahaha. My lady has never seen Top Gun so I start singing take my breathe away very quietly in her ear lol. I can't remember what other films were shown that night even though we stayed there till closing! As we're walking back to the hotel we walk into the snack bar 24 next door to Dampkring 2 for shawarma and chips. There's an American couple in there ordering just a shawarma wrap but it comes to him on a plate and he asks for it to be takeaway, the server man isn't happy. I then notice that he's dishing mine up on a plate too so I say sorry mate I'm meant takeaway as well. He slams the plate down and shouts all you fucking tourists, you all like to fuck with my head! Me and the American man looked at each other and started to laugh like we were school boys getting told off by a teacher lol. Garlic mayo and chilli sauce all over it and back up to the hotel room for a night cap of the remaining Vanilla Kush!! What a first day!! Tomorrow will include, Coffeeshop Crush, Coffeeshop Dolphins and Coffeeshop Get Down To It.
To be continued......
