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Hi there peeps,

Seen as you lovely people and this website helped a lot with making my holiday in Amsterdam that little bit better I thought id give you a travelogue of the 4 days me and a mate spent in that amazing city!

I didn’t take any notes, so its just off memory but I wasn’t that baked to forget it 

Day 0 (14th of September)

Ahh it was finally here! My first day off from work in a while and I was going on an epic much need holiday tomorrow! Well the day consisted of packing and getting everything I needed together for the trip. My mate turned up at about 4pm after a 3 hour drive from Newcastle , so first thing first was to get hold of a bit of the local bud….after a good few smokes and a takeaway we tidied up we headed off to bed for a good kip before the 3am wake up call for the flight from Manchester at 7am.

Day 1 (15th September)

Yaaaay finally here! Got up at about half 3 after a surprisingly good sleep (was like a little boy on Christmas eve when I went to bed)

We got to the airport about an hour before check in, all good. Through security and into departure and what felt like a day sat there looking at the screen, the gate was finally open, and in no time at all we were on the plane. It was a pretty un eventful 45 minute flight, as we both probably had a good 20 minute kip. We landed at about 9am and had that huge taxi over about 3 motorways to the airport, looking out of the window it looked basically the same as Manchester lol. Since we only had our hand luggage we were out of the airport in no time and on that double decker train into central station, looking back now its amazing how different it is out of the city, looked a lot like home. We got into central station and some how we managed to work out the lockers to store out bags, good job we had our cards with us otherwise we would have been traipsing round till 2pm with our bags.

May I say at this point, that this is my first (of many) trips to Amsterdam. We headed aimlessly into what looked like the centre and found a nice little headshop to grab a little plastic grinder, skins and a lighter, 12 euros for lot not bad. We headed towards harlemstraat?? (im not going to attempt any road names, we managed to get around purely on the ACD map and orientating ourselves with the coffeeshops we saw) which was in the general direction of the Quentin arrive where we were staying. So….time to break my coffeeshop virginity, we settled on coffeeshop freeworld just next to double reggae. The budtender was a pretty cool bloke and suggested northern lights for a first smoke, we had a sniff and it was pretty nice, we asked to see the big buddah cheese and that smelt awesome really pungent so grabbed a gram of that at 13 euros. Im no weed guru so my smoke reports will not be that great. We were just about to roll one up when I realised id left the tobacco in the bag, doh! I wandered back to the bud counter to ask if he’d got any mix for us to use, he kindly gave me that fag that was behind his ear. We skinned up 2 average sized spliffs and had our first smoke in Amsterdam . Well the weed in Amsterdam certainly lives upto its name, after a couple of drags I could feel it all ready. The big buddah was a real nice smoke, so smooth, nothing like the harsh, wet stuff you get back home, visually it was covered in crystals and was perfectly dried and crispy. An awesome first smoke!


We wandered out happily backed and had a mooch around town then to train station to pick up our bags,

At 2pm we headed back towards the hotel and checked in. after battling the calf crunch stairs we got to our room, opened the door to find a pretty big room, 3 beds and a balcony, happy days! We rolled up a spliff of the little remaining bud and had it on the balcony then had a good 3 hour kip.

The hotel location could not have been better, popeyes, dampkring 2, greenhouse, and barneys right outside. After the kip we headed out to the greenhouse coffeeshop to pick up for another smoke, having a look at the huge menu I asked for the NYC diesel, smelt pretty nice so grabbed a gram of that at 10 euro and couple of cokes. We sat at the back just up the stairs on them awesome tables with the seeds under the glass. Unfortunately I cannot for the life of me remember how the nyc diesel smoked, which probably means it was pretty decent or nothing to shout about.

After another mooch around town we popped to McDonalds for some tea and headed back towards the hotel, my mate said the last time he came barneys did the best smoke he had so we walked up to there. We popped in and headed to the bud counter, the guy was a real salesmen and a bit cocky but seemed ok, I asked about the white widow, and he mutted under his breath “you don’t come to barneys to smoke white widow” he suggested the g13 haze and joked to his friends “you reckon these guys can handle it” by this time I was getting a bit pissed off but when he showed us the bud, wow the smell was something else and it looked awesome, after yet more salesmen type showing off he finally weighed it up and handed us the bag, I think it was about 14-15euros we grabbed a couple of coffees. As much as I didn’t like the wholes salesmen type attitude, he was right in what he said about the bud, about all the crystals tucked in every orifice, and he made sure what ever weight he had to take off was as little bud as possible and even got some scissors and snipped quite abit of hidden stalk off the bud. We rolled a fat one each and sparked it up. Wow this was an awesome smoke and had a distinct lemony/citrusy taste to it and a pretty uplifting high. We sat, smoked and listened to the man that served us explain the difference between hash and weed to a woman that came in, and tbh I think our half of the shop were all listening lol.

So after getting pretty stoned off the haze we retired to our room for another smoke of what we had left of the diesel and the haze and some much needed sleep, those cobbled roads really do make walking a lot more tiring.

Day 2

We woke up at around 9 and was out back on the streets of Amsterdam. Both me and my mate agreed that as much as we loved the coffeeshops we had to do some touristy stuff so today we were going to go on one of them canal tours. Before that we had a wander up the canal behind our hotel in search of amnesia. However I had left the map in the room, so after a coin flip it was me that had to climb that mountain of stairs to go n get the map which was basically our bible of the holiday.

After a pretty nice walk up the canal we found amnesia sitting there  id heard so much about this place, so we wandered in, after the usual ID check the menu was turned over. After a quick look through I asked to have a look at the pinapple haze, it looked really good but didn’t smell that much. After a look at another I settled for the pineapple at 12 euro a gram. We grabbed 2 coffees skinned one up and sat out side for a smoke, which is really weird when ryour used to smoking discreetly. It smoked really nice, and had that hint of fruit, all be it it was smoked in a grape rip. the high was mellow and a little light headed, which was a nice way to pass the morning. While we were sitting there one of the boat tours passed and some cheeky asian woman got a nice shot of both of us smoking away. She gave us a nice little wave afterwards to. After that we headed up past grey area and over to dam square and contemplated madame tussaudes but after looking at the prices we decided to do something else.

I had promised my next door neighbour id bring him something back with me (nothing of great value as we were on a budget anyway) so from what id heard I could pick up something from the waterpoolian flea market, was a bit of a trek but we found it in the end. Ended up getting a little minnow pipe for him and after a little bartering got him down to 5 euros  the bloke on the stall also got his little black book out and offered us some weed. They were pretty good deals but he didn’t look one to trust.

My mate suggested we back head down to that harbour type thing near the station where all the tour boats are. We made a detour passed 420 café and had a joint in there with a coffee, nice cosy little place for a chill. When we got down there we had a wander down to the Thomson boat company to have a look at the prices, 17.50 for an hour and half, then we spottod that other one over the other side, 7.50! happy days, little less time, but an hour of canals is surely enough? So the boat set off and we took in the sights while listening to the tour tape in 3 different languages lol.

We had a wander back towards the hotel and stopped in freeworld again, we wanted to use the internet to find where we could rent one of the canal bikes, turned out the nearest was near anne franks  another long walk for us then! We also bought some superpolm hash, so had a pipe of that while we surfed the web for a bit. Its been a good few years since ive smoked hash (im only 19 now lol) but it was the drug of choice back when I was 15, I say hash…what I really mean is blackend soap bar with fook knows how much bad stuff is in it. The superpolm had that hashy taste that brought back a lot of memorys!

On the way up to the canal bike we had a wonder up to find home grown fantasy as we both wanted to try the cheese everyone raved about, after grabbing some of the cheese we grabbed 2 coffees and sat down, there was an American lad next us with 2 pretty big buds tearing them up, I offered him my grinder as he looked like he was struggling, well he ground up both buds and rolled them into a big fat cone. He passed me back the grinder and said “cheers for that, ive left a little in there for you” and sparked up his monster of a joint. Back to the cheese, it was awesome, the smell of it was incredible and the taste was different to any weed id ever had before, I couldn’t taste cheese (was I supposed too?) but it was a mighty fine smoke.

So after the trek up to the canal bike, we set sail on the high seas! Now im one of those people that trys to be goo at everything so I took the rudder and headed towards the left tunnel of one of the bridges, my god them things are hard to drive! I got stuck in the tunnel and it was stuck stuck, it was basically the same situation Austin powers was in when he got that buggy thing stuck. We were in stiches. Also we managed to crash into a couple of house one with a “say no to canal bikes” sticker in the window oooops

We headed back to the hotel to give our feet a bit of a rest, we stopped in popeyes for a smoke before we challenged the Everest staircase. Popeyes is now one of my favourite shops for a smoke, we greeted by a greek man? With long hair and asked us how our day had been ect which was really nice as some of the budtenders don’t seem that arsed to talk to you. I got a gram of mango haze and my mate got a gram of northern lights, we even got to have a toke on the hookah filled with popeyes mix  a nice little gesture, then I realised half of the customers that have come in here will have had their mouth round it…lovely. We sat up at the top and skinned up. The mango haze was really nice, not that crystly but had a nice fruity smell to hit and a nice heady high.

We headed up to the room to watch the footie and have a smoke with the plan to have a walk round the RLD after. Well it was about half 10 and decided to go and have a gander at the women of the night, well I must say the majority of them would easily get into modelling, some awesome women!, after a bit of window shopping we decided to head back to the hotel for some kip, we stopped off in route 99 coffeeshop on the way back, we both bought a space cake and my mate bought 1.5 grams of northern lights only to find that there was 2 big balls of what looked like and cumbled like mud , not the complaining type we had a smoke then headed off back to the hotel to scoff the cakes and get some shut eye.

Another great day in the dam!

im in the middle of writing the other 2 days, so will post them up when im done!

I really needed your trip report for my Amsterdam fix I'll roll another spliff and read the next two days

Peace,
Balou

great so far its good you loved Amsterdam and tried the Cheese(hgf). last time we played bump a pedal boat great fun, and they are Hard to drive when your stoned

whee, Amsterdam! Thanx for providing my vicarious fix, always so great to hear about a first trip to 'Dam. looking forward to hearing the rest!

Nice report so far...

Great report so far mate, some good weed choices and good to hear HGF's Cheese is still rocking looking forward to the next chapter

Pedal boats= nightmare!
Last time i was in A'dam i went down the wong canal and ended up in the main shipping lane! Not advised. Then saw something large and yellow coming towards me, Turned out to be a giant yellow clog with an ouboard!
For a few seconds i really had to question my own sanity!

Good report, looking forward to the rest.

nice report dude. great read with a morning spliff, looking forward to the rest, bad news about the mud in your weed....

pud wrote:Seen as you lovely people and this website helped a lot with making my holiday in Amsterdam that little bit better I thought id give you a travelogue of the 4 days me and a mate spent in that amazing city!

thanks ...

pud wrote:I didn’t take any notes, so its just off memory but I wasn’t that baked to forget it

cool

pud wrote:im not going to attempt any road names, we managed to get around purely on the ACD map and orientating ourselves with the coffeeshops we saw

what a lovely way to go, it sounds more like the sport of orienteering than walking around a city with a street map

pud wrote:Another great day in the dam! ... im in the middle of writing the other 2 days, so will post them up when im done!

looking forward to the other 2 days, enjoying the read so far, thanks for making the effort because it is much appreciated

Great read Pud, looking forward to the rest

Glad everyone is enjoying it, im not as im sat at home skint with no weed till payday wishing i was there


Day 3

I woke up about 8am! Feeling pretty awake so I rolled a spliff out of the superpolm and sat on the balcony smoking away while my mate was still fast on, first spliff id had with hash in since I was about 15, and it tasted awesome! After that I climed back into bed, only to be woke up by my mate getting out of the shower, looked at my watch and it was 12pm that space cake and the spliff knocked me out and I got a good 12 hours sleep! My mate went to roll a J out of the northern light he had bought and couldn’t find it any where, we made the assumption that when hed got his wallet out to pay for the food last night, he must have dragged the baggie out 2 

After a shower and getting everything ready we popped down to popeys for a breakfast and to buy some more bud, I decided on white widow and my mate had a gram of jack herrer, I must say a spliff and a full English is a really good way to start the day! Again my mate got done by getting short changed by the bloke behind the counter, another fail for him lol. The plan today was to pop over to the zoo, which we though wouldn’t be too far a walk :\ well a good hour later and we managed to find it! Again navigating by the amount of canals we crossed.

It’s the first time ive been to a proper zoo other than when I was a kid, and I cant remember that. Our legs were killing already from the walk there but we soldiered on, first thing you see are howmany herons flying about every where, there must have been one in virtually every enclosure, one heron was chasing a little group of penguins round their little pool lol, was awesome. We had a go at feeding some kind of monkey some leaves, tried with one of the camels and it had a go for my fingers! Highlight has to be one of the little baboons just picking sh1t out of anothers arse, one of the more disturbing sights ive seen in my life, looked like they both enjoyed it too 

I contemplated rolling a J in a quiet spot but it probably wasn’t the most sensible ideas. After leaving the zoo I don’t think we could hack the walk back so jumped on a tram back towards central station with the intension of getting off where dampkring was, we missed that stop so got off just before dam square and had a wonder around. Stopped in one of the head souvenir shops to get a blunt wrap then headed back towards dam square.

We popped into coffeeshop ben which was off one of the alleys near blues brother coffee shop. Nice little place and had a chat to the budtender who had friends from Sheffield! I bought a gram of northern lights extreme? For 10 euros and sat in the little glass room, there was only us and a couple in there, the comfy seats in there were really nice and gave us both the chance to put our feet up and have a smoke. Cant remember much of the northern lights, proberbly one of the mediocre weeds I tried on the trip.

We headed back to the hotel to roll and smoke a blunt and have a little rest till later. The blunt was awesome, we rolled it with a mix of the northern lights I bought and the jack herer my mate got from popeyes, this put us on our arse for a good hour and half and we just watched a bit of tele for a bit.

Since we got here we had only survived on mcdonalds. Burger king and a few of them pizza things. So we headed out get something proper to eat, when I say out I mean across the road from the hotel lol, there was a Mexican restaurant that had steak and chips for 8.50 so we headed in there. We were the only ones in there, so cant have been the best place in town but it must have been better than burger and chips. They must charge for everything in Amsterdam as they charged us for the bread, garlic butter and some Mexican sauce I had with the steak, we washed all that down with a bottle of amstel gold, 7%! Wasn’t very nice like, but it was needed!

It was about 9 now so we popped into popeyes for another smoke, I love this place, had a real friendly vibe to it. We split a gram of popeyes cream between us both and sat down for a spliff and a couple of coffees.

We were both knacked so went back up to the room for a couple of bongs of the hash and some much needed kip as we had to be up at 9 to check out for 11.

Fun to read, I must say. Well done, sir

Nice report pud

Good report Pud...next time try the road bykes...you get around quicker and not so hard on the feet...those cobbles can be murder...