I'll second that!metal4mullets wrote: Also, Grey Area is one of the greatest places on Earth, IMO.
Peace
Hammy hits Amsterdam...
Day 3, 23rd August 2009
We managed to get up at a reasonable time on this day, just after 9 I think. Smoked hard at our place again when we woke up because we couldn’t get through to our mates to meet up and hit a coffeeshop. Went out and grabbed some food from one of the numerous little bakeries for breakfast, back to the room, smoke, shower etc. By this point I was virtually out of weed so needed to head out quick sharp and get something; soberness was beginning to rear its ugly head.
The obvious choice due to the time at this point was to head back to Grey Area for opening and perhaps even get a seat. And this we did, getting there for opening my mates pounced on the window table while I went up to get drinks and bud (it truly is amazing how quickly this place fills up, I’d say it was full including a big queue within 5 minutes of opening). I also opted to check out one of their bongs, nice friendly budtender merely replied “it’s free to you my friend” when I tried to give a deposit of some sort for the RooR little sista that he handed me, good service. This time we only bought 1g of East Coast Sour Diesel at €12/g. Nice weed this, definitely can taste the name as it where, although grapefruity as well? The only thing for me that put a downer on Grey Area was the state of the bong… diiiiirty! This thing looked like it had never been cleaned since bought; bit of a shame when one the same would set you back about £120 or thereabouts in the UK. So we smoked up in here until we were all nice and mellow again, my 2 mates finishing off most of their stashes if I remember rightly.
East Coast Sour Diesel, Grey Area
After Grey Area we needed food, a lot… us walking towards Dam square would’ve been reminiscent of a scene from any zombie movie. I think we grabbed a New York Pizza at this time: great food, fairly reasonably priced. Now I’m a pretty big guy but 2 slices of this pizza filled me up! I think that set me back about €6. Recommended. After this it was back to the recurring theme, back to the room to wait for our other mates to be ready.
This time they weren’t that bad so we met up with them and headed out. We had decided to go up to Haarlamerstraat and check out a few of the coffeeshops up that end of town. After some rather strange directional choices on the part of me and a couple of the others we actually ended up right outside Anyday… that’s okay by me! Strolling in here we noticed that all the seats were taken, inside and out but we decided to buy and fly anyway, we could always sit by a canal and smoke up because the weather was great yet again. Here we bought 1g of Honey Dew at €13/g, 1g of Choco at €12/g, 3g of Anyday Special at €12/g and 1g of Blue Haze at €11/g. Like I said we didn’t stick around here but it was a nice place, certainly somewhere I’d return to. Big windows, nice and airy but few seats… is there an upstairs here? I seem to remember some stairs but in our dazed state we didn’t think to go up them.
Choco, Anyday
Honey Dew, Anyday
After that we walked down whatever street Anyday is on until we came across Doors… a rather strange place to say the least. It was completely empty, a bit tatty and dark but it had the best air conditioning we’d experienced thus far (the Dutch really don’t seem big on air con, some places were intolerable due to the heat… it was hot but only about 25⁰c outside). We decided to stick around here and wandered up to the bar, I say this because it was a bar; they had alcoholic drinks yet the bartender was also selling weed at the end. I think this was a bit sketchy, as the menu looked battered and he was dealing out of a bag, me thinks no licence. But whatever, we bought drinks and my mates bought 3g of Power Plant at €10/g. We went upstairs and were greeted by 2 pool tables… this was the moment we decided to stick around here a while. Multiple beers, spliffs and games of pools later we were content and decided to head back out into the sun. Sorry I can’t comment on the Power Plant, I either didn’t smoke it or can’t remember it at all; although my friend did say it was the best weed he smoked all trip and another said it was up there, so it must’ve been pretty decent.
After more of a walk we finally saw the sign we wanted to: Haarlamerstraat. We walked down here a bit, spotting Picasso, Dampkring 2 and Popeye before my mates decided they of course wanted to try Barney’s. I didn’t really have an aversion to this, as I’ve never been before so I knew I should probably check it out despite how commercial and overpriced a lot of people on here say it is. We went in here and grabbed a table, nice comfy chairs, airy, reasonably sized, well decorated and friendly bud tenders although the weed prices were indeed a bit steep. Not as bad as many people make out though, in fact it was a rather pleasant place to be. Here we bought 1g of Hawaiian Snow at €13/g and 1g of Red Dragon at €13/g. Both nice smokes, one mate saying the Hawaiian was the best weed of the trip. It was while we were in here that we realised this was to be our last night in Amsterdam. Bad times.
Red Dragon, Barney's
We decided to go out with a bang and headed back to the Bulldog bar (again) to smoke as much of what we had left as we could and take advantage of their 10 Jägermeister shots for €10. We either bought 30 or 40… I can’t really remember, hardly surprising to be honest! After this we went around the RLD again for quite a while, gawping at a lot of the women (some really are amazing) and I’m sure we got a beer somewhere.
Jäger Shots, Bulldog Bar
After a while of this it was getting on a bit so we decided to split and head back to our separate places to smoke up and sleep in preparation for our last day in Amsterdam. By this point we still had quite a lot to smoke, as we wanted to finish off a lot of what we had so we didn’t have to kill ourselves on the last day. You can see the task that followed…
Last day to come...
We managed to get up at a reasonable time on this day, just after 9 I think. Smoked hard at our place again when we woke up because we couldn’t get through to our mates to meet up and hit a coffeeshop. Went out and grabbed some food from one of the numerous little bakeries for breakfast, back to the room, smoke, shower etc. By this point I was virtually out of weed so needed to head out quick sharp and get something; soberness was beginning to rear its ugly head.
The obvious choice due to the time at this point was to head back to Grey Area for opening and perhaps even get a seat. And this we did, getting there for opening my mates pounced on the window table while I went up to get drinks and bud (it truly is amazing how quickly this place fills up, I’d say it was full including a big queue within 5 minutes of opening). I also opted to check out one of their bongs, nice friendly budtender merely replied “it’s free to you my friend” when I tried to give a deposit of some sort for the RooR little sista that he handed me, good service. This time we only bought 1g of East Coast Sour Diesel at €12/g. Nice weed this, definitely can taste the name as it where, although grapefruity as well? The only thing for me that put a downer on Grey Area was the state of the bong… diiiiirty! This thing looked like it had never been cleaned since bought; bit of a shame when one the same would set you back about £120 or thereabouts in the UK. So we smoked up in here until we were all nice and mellow again, my 2 mates finishing off most of their stashes if I remember rightly.
East Coast Sour Diesel, Grey Area
After Grey Area we needed food, a lot… us walking towards Dam square would’ve been reminiscent of a scene from any zombie movie. I think we grabbed a New York Pizza at this time: great food, fairly reasonably priced. Now I’m a pretty big guy but 2 slices of this pizza filled me up! I think that set me back about €6. Recommended. After this it was back to the recurring theme, back to the room to wait for our other mates to be ready.
This time they weren’t that bad so we met up with them and headed out. We had decided to go up to Haarlamerstraat and check out a few of the coffeeshops up that end of town. After some rather strange directional choices on the part of me and a couple of the others we actually ended up right outside Anyday… that’s okay by me! Strolling in here we noticed that all the seats were taken, inside and out but we decided to buy and fly anyway, we could always sit by a canal and smoke up because the weather was great yet again. Here we bought 1g of Honey Dew at €13/g, 1g of Choco at €12/g, 3g of Anyday Special at €12/g and 1g of Blue Haze at €11/g. Like I said we didn’t stick around here but it was a nice place, certainly somewhere I’d return to. Big windows, nice and airy but few seats… is there an upstairs here? I seem to remember some stairs but in our dazed state we didn’t think to go up them.
Choco, Anyday
Honey Dew, Anyday
After that we walked down whatever street Anyday is on until we came across Doors… a rather strange place to say the least. It was completely empty, a bit tatty and dark but it had the best air conditioning we’d experienced thus far (the Dutch really don’t seem big on air con, some places were intolerable due to the heat… it was hot but only about 25⁰c outside). We decided to stick around here and wandered up to the bar, I say this because it was a bar; they had alcoholic drinks yet the bartender was also selling weed at the end. I think this was a bit sketchy, as the menu looked battered and he was dealing out of a bag, me thinks no licence. But whatever, we bought drinks and my mates bought 3g of Power Plant at €10/g. We went upstairs and were greeted by 2 pool tables… this was the moment we decided to stick around here a while. Multiple beers, spliffs and games of pools later we were content and decided to head back out into the sun. Sorry I can’t comment on the Power Plant, I either didn’t smoke it or can’t remember it at all; although my friend did say it was the best weed he smoked all trip and another said it was up there, so it must’ve been pretty decent.
After more of a walk we finally saw the sign we wanted to: Haarlamerstraat. We walked down here a bit, spotting Picasso, Dampkring 2 and Popeye before my mates decided they of course wanted to try Barney’s. I didn’t really have an aversion to this, as I’ve never been before so I knew I should probably check it out despite how commercial and overpriced a lot of people on here say it is. We went in here and grabbed a table, nice comfy chairs, airy, reasonably sized, well decorated and friendly bud tenders although the weed prices were indeed a bit steep. Not as bad as many people make out though, in fact it was a rather pleasant place to be. Here we bought 1g of Hawaiian Snow at €13/g and 1g of Red Dragon at €13/g. Both nice smokes, one mate saying the Hawaiian was the best weed of the trip. It was while we were in here that we realised this was to be our last night in Amsterdam. Bad times.
Red Dragon, Barney's
We decided to go out with a bang and headed back to the Bulldog bar (again) to smoke as much of what we had left as we could and take advantage of their 10 Jägermeister shots for €10. We either bought 30 or 40… I can’t really remember, hardly surprising to be honest! After this we went around the RLD again for quite a while, gawping at a lot of the women (some really are amazing) and I’m sure we got a beer somewhere.
Jäger Shots, Bulldog Bar
After a while of this it was getting on a bit so we decided to split and head back to our separate places to smoke up and sleep in preparation for our last day in Amsterdam. By this point we still had quite a lot to smoke, as we wanted to finish off a lot of what we had so we didn’t have to kill ourselves on the last day. You can see the task that followed…
Last day to come...
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mark the martian
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Would've been about 7 or 8 each, plus about 5 beers for me and a lot of weed over the day.mark the martian wrote:How many shots of Jagger did you have man? Sounds intense
I'm almost always completely fine, kinda cool really. Only goes wrong when I go completely mental. Like a bottle of JD in 15 minutes followed by a blunt with an 8th in it... I'd just finished school. Messy night though.baked wrote:nice man. so much heavy drinking never works for me while smoking weed.
I hope it is too for you dude! The weather was seriously awesome, better than most of what we've had in England so far this year. Didn't drop below about 24⁰c during the day the whole time we were there.Benedict wrote:Great post! I go there on wednesday and am too excited! hope the weathers still that good!
Bee.
It's the Bulldog bar in the Bulldog hostel in the RLD, 10 Jäger shots for €10 or 10 Jäger and red bull for €20. Getting a few as souvenirs isn't that hard... if you know what I'm sayingDuhhaN wrote:WAIT WHAT IS THE JAGER OFFER AT bulldog? sounds intriguingand i love those test tubes i kind of want a cpl as a souvenious on my next trip:)
.Cheers for reading then everyone, hope it can be of help to someone. Last day and my overall summary should be up tomorrow or Sunday.
It has been a big help to me mate and look forward to the summary.Hammy wrote:
Cheers for reading then everyone, hope it can be of help to someone. Last day and my overall summary should be up tomorrow or Sunday.
On a side note the weather looks total pants for next week, rain,rain,rain and more er RAIN
Thanks for sharing
Day 4, 24th August 2009
So, our last day in Amsterdam was upon us. We had a flight to catch at about 6 in the evening so we wanted to get as much into the few hours we had left as possible… this plan hit a big stumbling block when we realised that we all had to do an online check in for our flight and also somehow print off the boarding cards. Sorting this out through the use of several different computers and with the help of the reception staff at the Bulldog printing the things we finally got it sorted by about midday. This only left us roughly 4 hours until we had to catch a train to Schipol. We decided we were super tired, a bit hungover and couldn’t be arsed to walk far never mind to a coffeeshop we didn’t know so after grabbing a bite to eat in the Bulldog bar we headed out in the general direction of Grey Area and Amnesia.
We decided to walk past Grey Area on the miniscule off chance that there were enough seats for the 6 of us, and also the 3 who were staying at the Bulldog hadn’t been yet so wanted to at least have a look at the place. As we got outside, as expected, the place was packed and had a long queue: scrap that. We all decided to simply wrap up our trip at Amnesia, it was easy, convenient for getting the train and also a very pleasant place to be. Being that it was our last day we weren’t gonna be buying a significant quantity of anything, all that was purchased was 1g of Quasar at €17/g, our most expensive weed of the trip. The thing is it didn’t taste like it, yes it was good, very good, but not worth the extra €4/g or so that it was over the other weeds that I actually preferred. We got a bong here again, a very clean GonG piece like the first time we had visited. Smoking up in here we all helped each other finish off the various bits and bobs we had left in several salad spliffs, all most pleasant, also ending up giving a very nice complete high because of all the different weeds. It was at this point that one of us decided it would be appropriate to point out to us that he had about 3.5g of stuff left; and we had to leave to get the train in about an hour (we had eaten further at Amnesia). Luckily for us someone in the group had a blunt wrap ready and waiting to be rolled… all the remaining weed was hastily jammed into this and we went outside and grabbed a table to smoke up the very last Amsterdam weed in big style with a big blunt…
As expected the rest of the trip was most boring: walk, tickets, train, walk, security, duty-free, plane, home. I can’t even begin to elaborate on how much of a good time we all had, hopefully by reading the report you got a rough idea. Amsterdam is a beautiful, diverse and interesting city; definitely one of my favourites in the world (I’ve travelled extensively in Europe, Africa, Asia and America: visited San Francisco, New York, Paris, Brouges… and more) and I can say with certainty that I will be back. Probably sooner rather than later. 4/20 2010 anyone?
So, our last day in Amsterdam was upon us. We had a flight to catch at about 6 in the evening so we wanted to get as much into the few hours we had left as possible… this plan hit a big stumbling block when we realised that we all had to do an online check in for our flight and also somehow print off the boarding cards. Sorting this out through the use of several different computers and with the help of the reception staff at the Bulldog printing the things we finally got it sorted by about midday. This only left us roughly 4 hours until we had to catch a train to Schipol. We decided we were super tired, a bit hungover and couldn’t be arsed to walk far never mind to a coffeeshop we didn’t know so after grabbing a bite to eat in the Bulldog bar we headed out in the general direction of Grey Area and Amnesia.
We decided to walk past Grey Area on the miniscule off chance that there were enough seats for the 6 of us, and also the 3 who were staying at the Bulldog hadn’t been yet so wanted to at least have a look at the place. As we got outside, as expected, the place was packed and had a long queue: scrap that. We all decided to simply wrap up our trip at Amnesia, it was easy, convenient for getting the train and also a very pleasant place to be. Being that it was our last day we weren’t gonna be buying a significant quantity of anything, all that was purchased was 1g of Quasar at €17/g, our most expensive weed of the trip. The thing is it didn’t taste like it, yes it was good, very good, but not worth the extra €4/g or so that it was over the other weeds that I actually preferred. We got a bong here again, a very clean GonG piece like the first time we had visited. Smoking up in here we all helped each other finish off the various bits and bobs we had left in several salad spliffs, all most pleasant, also ending up giving a very nice complete high because of all the different weeds. It was at this point that one of us decided it would be appropriate to point out to us that he had about 3.5g of stuff left; and we had to leave to get the train in about an hour (we had eaten further at Amnesia). Luckily for us someone in the group had a blunt wrap ready and waiting to be rolled… all the remaining weed was hastily jammed into this and we went outside and grabbed a table to smoke up the very last Amsterdam weed in big style with a big blunt…
As expected the rest of the trip was most boring: walk, tickets, train, walk, security, duty-free, plane, home. I can’t even begin to elaborate on how much of a good time we all had, hopefully by reading the report you got a rough idea. Amsterdam is a beautiful, diverse and interesting city; definitely one of my favourites in the world (I’ve travelled extensively in Europe, Africa, Asia and America: visited San Francisco, New York, Paris, Brouges… and more) and I can say with certainty that I will be back. Probably sooner rather than later. 4/20 2010 anyone?
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Summary
I love Amsterdam. In all seriousness though, if I didn’t have to learn another language I would consider moving there in a heartbeat (I’m awful with languages, trust me, technically I’m multilingual if you go by GCSE results…) and I make this judgement having only visited twice. This summary should wrap up the trip report, but will not even get close to expressing what an amazing place it is, and what a time we had…
Number of Coffeeshops visited: 11
Number of strains smoked: 25+
Amount spent on weed: €400+
Number of hours in Amsterdam: 80
Top 5 Strains:
1. Neville’s Haze – Café 420
2. Grey Haze – Grey Area
3. Hawaiian Snow – Barney’s
4. Yellow Cab – Grey Area
5. G13 Haze – Amnesia
Top 5 shops:
1. Amnesia
2. Mellow Yellow
3. Grey Area
4. Café 420
5. Green Place
Best place for vaporisers: Anyday (this was obvious even if we didn’t stick around)
Best bong: Amnesia
Best (coffeeshop) food: Amnesia
Most reasonable: Doors
Avoid: We were lucky enough not to go anywhere bad, entirely due to this forum!
So I’d just like to say thanks to everyone again for reading and hopefully this report can be as much use to others as some on here were to me. Until next time!
I love Amsterdam. In all seriousness though, if I didn’t have to learn another language I would consider moving there in a heartbeat (I’m awful with languages, trust me, technically I’m multilingual if you go by GCSE results…) and I make this judgement having only visited twice. This summary should wrap up the trip report, but will not even get close to expressing what an amazing place it is, and what a time we had…
Number of Coffeeshops visited: 11
Number of strains smoked: 25+
Amount spent on weed: €400+
Number of hours in Amsterdam: 80
Top 5 Strains:
1. Neville’s Haze – Café 420
2. Grey Haze – Grey Area
3. Hawaiian Snow – Barney’s
4. Yellow Cab – Grey Area
5. G13 Haze – Amnesia
Top 5 shops:
1. Amnesia
2. Mellow Yellow
3. Grey Area
4. Café 420
5. Green Place
Best place for vaporisers: Anyday (this was obvious even if we didn’t stick around)
Best bong: Amnesia
Best (coffeeshop) food: Amnesia
Most reasonable: Doors
Avoid: We were lucky enough not to go anywhere bad, entirely due to this forum!
So I’d just like to say thanks to everyone again for reading and hopefully this report can be as much use to others as some on here were to me. Until next time!
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metal4mullets
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Very well done, Hammy! *golf clap* 
I'm super happy to see that Amnesia and GA made your top five shops. We absolutely loved both of them and won't hesitate to return and spend good money there. Amnesia particularly was just an absolute gem to sit and smoke at...especially outside on the benches
As you had mentioned, this forum has provided invaluable information on shops and gear...and because of this we too were fortunate enough to not have any bad experiences. Other than Ben (which wasn't really highly praised for service/atmosphere just good Lemon Haze), we loved every shop we visited. Now you've just contributed to the knowledge base!
I'm super happy to see that Amnesia and GA made your top five shops. We absolutely loved both of them and won't hesitate to return and spend good money there. Amnesia particularly was just an absolute gem to sit and smoke at...especially outside on the benches
As you had mentioned, this forum has provided invaluable information on shops and gear...and because of this we too were fortunate enough to not have any bad experiences. Other than Ben (which wasn't really highly praised for service/atmosphere just good Lemon Haze), we loved every shop we visited. Now you've just contributed to the knowledge base!