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Posted: Wed 9th Dec 2009 09:14 am
by Marco
PorgaLily wrote:Good thread, DavidW. I also joined to find answers to this very question
Your chair sounds wicked. I'm stuck with a boring manual one, which i'm not allowed to drive myself!! Was supposed to be a transit (four titchy wheels and no control) but I became 'overly anxious' about being stolen, just wheeled away
and we had to switch to a manual (two big, two small wheels) - no different really but the
appearence of independence is the closest i can get! And the ride is smoother, which leads me to add an appendix to this Q......
Which coffeeshops (of the wh/ch accessable variety) can be reached over smooth ground (not cobbled!!!! For me bumps = damage - not the good kind) and are within 10 mins slowish wheel/walk of Herengracht (halfway betwixt Siberie and Amnesia)? (
And allow
tobacco mixing - cannot afford to choke; ribs break or dislocate or the discs can get forced from my spine etc etc)
Phew! Sorry that is so complicated - might end up reiterating in a separate thread.
Thanks in advance for those faithful tokers who might be informed well enough to come up with an answer to this ridiculous quandry
Don't worry about the tobacco, I have never come across a shop that cares. Your need to smoke tobacco is very interesting. Care to through a lawsuit at the government to repeal the tobacco ban?
I thought of this post as I was riding to work out of town. All smooth, flat sidewalks and bike paths. Not the answer you want to hear...
Good luck.
Posted: Wed 9th Dec 2009 06:56 pm
by PorgaLily
Thanks Marco
, do need the luck.
Would thoroughly apprciate if you could let me know if there are any particular roads around the center you think I should avoid. My memories of the Dam are several years old and 'hazy' lol. Also, I wasn't looking at the streets with an eye to wheeling over them. I do kind of remember some very narrow and rutted ones alongside canals, and I think I saw a Bulldog but really really not sure.
Posted: Wed 9th Dec 2009 11:42 pm
by Boner
Here's a trip report by someone in a wheelchair that was posted over at Channels.nl -
http://forum.channels.nl/phpbb/viewtopi ... heelchairs
Posted: Thu 10th Dec 2009 12:29 pm
by mark the martian
Boner delivers!
Posted: Sat 12th Dec 2009 03:09 am
by PorgaLily
As always
Posted: Fri 26th Nov 2010 12:30 am
by Glas
Just bumping this thread, and Boners link in particular (cheers
) for anyone else that might find it useful.
It's difficult to find good info about wheelchair use in the Dam, especially for people interested in the non-touristy aspects
Posted: Fri 26th Nov 2010 06:43 pm
by truckerclart
just thinking that rookies is flat floored and if my memory serves me correctly the door is pretty wide too so dont rule that one out....
Posted: Mon 29th Nov 2010 07:25 pm
by ATWA
I wish I had a wheelchair whle in Amsterdam..
it must be the total stoner acessory, I always have hard times finding somewhere to sit, with a wheelchair man u can just sit anywhere, or you already are ... mm...wheelchairs..
Posted: Mon 29th Nov 2010 07:47 pm
by ftcarer
ATWA wrote:I wish I had a wheelchair whle in Amsterdam..
it must be the total stoner acessory, I always have hard times finding somewhere to sit, with a wheelchair man u can just sit anywhere, or you already are ... mm...wheelchairs..
What a stupid fucking statement , do you have any idea how hard it is to be stuck in a wheelchair whenever you go out no matter what ?
Try watching the person you love more than anyone else cry her eyes out because she can't run around with her kids anymore .
Fucking prat , I hope you do find a wheelchair in Dam , that way I can dump you head first in the nearest fucking canal .
Posted: Mon 29th Nov 2010 08:14 pm
by Colina
If i remember right the rokerij near muntplein and the one at the single near central station have flat entrance. but the dealer is on the basement!
Amnesia has a flat entrance I think. and there is space for a wheelchair. can s.o. confirm that?
Posted: Mon 29th Nov 2010 08:21 pm
by SkinAnother
ATWA wrote:I wish I had a wheelchair whle in Amsterdam..
it must be the total stoner acessory, I always have hard times finding somewhere to sit, with a wheelchair man u can just sit anywhere, or you already are ... mm...wheelchairs..
Really?? What a stupid thing to say!!
Posted: Mon 29th Nov 2010 08:45 pm
by Rufus
ftcarer wrote:ATWA wrote:I wish I had a wheelchair whle in Amsterdam..
it must be the total stoner acessory, I always have hard times finding somewhere to sit, with a wheelchair man u can just sit anywhere, or you already are ... mm...wheelchairs..
What a stupid fucking statement , do you have any idea how hard it is to be stuck in a wheelchair whenever you go out no matter what ?
Fucking prat , I hope you do find a wheelchair in Dam , that way I can dump you head first in the nearest fucking canal .
+1 I'll assume you're just ignorant ATWA
Posted: Mon 29th Nov 2010 09:57 pm
by ATWA
oh my it was a joke you dont have to get all mad and there is certainly no need in making threats.
Posted: Mon 29th Nov 2010 10:31 pm
by truckerclart
thing being ATWA is that this aint your ordinary 'piss taking site' this is a peace loving place with a lot of disabled/people in need of medicinal help and you have got peoples backs up,fair enough that is a joke but please be sensitive to the other forum users,after all we are all supporters of the same goal, peace bra!!!!
Posted: Mon 29th Nov 2010 10:49 pm
by Panog
I'm okay with you guys, but you have to agree with the fact that being on a weelchair multiply by 100 your chance to get a seat at Grey Area