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Ok so I wasn't really sure how to put this together. I took a bunch of vids and pics. Not so much on the weed itself as everyone does that, but more of the city and other things. I also noticed after I took a lot of videos of tram routes. Go figure...

Anyway so my flight was at 09:30 from London City Airport. I didn't want to chance missing it with any train delays so I got a very early train from where I live - 0545 to Paddington. It started off a bit of a nightmare. I usually get the London train to work from platform 4, all London trains are platform 4. But on the monitor it said platform 2 which is almost never used so I thought ok that's strange. So I called national train enquiries and they said platform 2 as well so I thought ok. I was standing on platform 2 and saw some others begin to arrive at the station and they were all going to platform 4!! Next thing I know the train is pulling into platform 4 and I am running up the stairs like a lunatic with this huge bag. Made it though and arrived in Paddington in good time. Got the bakerloo line to Baker St then Jubilee to Canning Town. From there the DLR service to London City Airport. I was too early to even check baggage in so I had a wander around the airport, it's quite small but has a bit of everything. A few hours pass and im on my KLM flight to Schipol!

I had arranged to meet a friend at Schipol at the Juice place. He was coming from Malaga and was going getting a connecting flight from Madrid. In the lounge in LCY I was checking on the net and his flight was showing as 60 mins delayed, oh shit!!!!

But when I arrived there at Schipol it said he was due to land soon so I thought hey not bad. I got a juice at that place and got talking to the bar staff who were pretty friendly. J called me from a phonebox saying he had landed so we met and got on the train to Central. I had already got 2 tickets to the station from one of those booths. Only 3.50e or something like that each, very cheap.

We got into Central and the first thing we done was head to Homegrown Fantasy. I think J got a gram of Silver Pearl. I asked the budtender what he could recommend and he said the Chocolope so I got a gram of that. I have to also mention im not a huge smoker these days so my immunity was probably shot to hell before this one and it was a fat one too! I was almost falling off the cushion 30 mins later and we headed to central station to get the tram to the hotel. btw they had a nice cat there, quite young.

We got a deal on lastminute.com where it was buy 2 nights and get 2 free. We were there for 4 nights, 5 days so we ended up paying around £200 for the whole stay. And that was between 2 of us so it was a great deal. Here are some photos from the hotel room. The area around the hotel is still being built up...with other hotels so I guess this promotional offer is to get interest now before the whole area is built up. I would definitely stay there again.









As you can see the room was pretty good, we had plenty of channels on the STB built into the TV too. The hotel was located in the West, maybe 10 mins from Dam Square by tram. The nearest tram stop was Surinamplein (number 1 tram), which was maybe 5 mins from the hotel, 10 mins with a smoke on the way of course haha

We took a walk through the Rembrandt park





Once we got to the stop it was off on the tram back into the centre. Here is a short recording of the tram journey between stops. I uploaded quite a few of these to youtube today so feel free to watch them all. That pizza place we pass on the left was superb btw! Right now I have the post dam blues so it's nice to watch these videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gICSO4jKCHA

We thought we would just hit the centre the first night and take it from there. So we went to Hill St Blues. I bought a gram of cheese, it was nice.. very smelly and it was a nice high. They had the doors open downstairs too so we were sat looking out onto Damrak and the canal ect... Here is a short vid taken inside Hill St on the next night... I just wanted to show people the nice decor inside...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJoYbFLwLBw

Have to go now but will post more later...

We walked back around so I could get a few pics of the canals along Damrak





We hit 36 after that then went into the Red Light District. A few pics and vids....






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uonq__FkCj4

I tried to sneak a video of the girls, tried a few more times throughout the duration of the trip too. Good times!!!

Nice 1 Bav, seems like you got a good deal on the Hotel there.

Hev Bav,

That's a promising start for your report -- pix AND vids, oh my. Can't wait to read more.

Top job so far, you're braver than me trying to get video of the girls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uonq__FkCj4

I tried to sneak a video of the girls, tried a few more times throughout the duration of the trip too. Good times!!![/quote]

sneaky little so & so
nice start mate

After that we wanted to go check out De Dampkring. I didn't have my iphone with me so I was relying purely on the city map we had and the hope that between us we knew where it was. We ended up going in a few circles and eventually we decided to just go to Dampkring 2. My mate bought a gram of Mexican Haze and I got a gram of White Choco. We also ordered some milkshakes. They took a while to make but boy do they taste good. The hunters ones are nice but for me these taste better. We came in here a few times actually and I had Vanilla both times. I also had a bottle of water on me, probably from a previous CS and one guy there told me to keep it covered up. I said no problem bro, not sure if that was just some company policy.

it was getting into the evening now and both of us were quite tired. I had been sleeping for maybe 3 hours and J didn't even sleep at all so we went back to the hotel armed with a few grams each of gear on us and unpacked. The first thing we noticed was that the windows in the hotel only open a bit vertically. I didn't want to chance setting off the smoke alarm and possibly getting fined in the process so we decided to smoke outside. As it happens the hotel has a nice terrace that you can access via the reception that is open 24 hours a day. We smoked there sometimes and other times we exited the hotel altogether and went under the bridge towards the park to smoke. It would have been nice to smoke in the room but I wasn't too bothered tbh, I was just glad to be there finally! We ordered food from the hotel, 2 pasta's and an ice cream platter each. Phwoaarrr... expensive but nice food.

We woke up quite late the next day, almost 1 I think it was before we left. But I got up slightly earlier to use the gym in the hotel. Yes that's right the gym! lol I knew id be eating a lot of junk that weekend so thought a little exercise before hand would be good. After that I showered, got ready and we set off to get something to eat but we didn't want to go to the centrum so thought we would have a stroll through the park to see what we could find. We found this nice little cafe run by 2 ladies. Couple of toasties and drinks came to maybe 7 euros. Very tasty! Also at this point I noticed they have the White Kit Kat chunky, why don't we get that in the UK? Grrrr








After that we went to Anyday. They said upstairs was only for Verdampers and were not planning on getting vaped that night so we just sat downstairs. I got 5 grams of Bubblegum and my mate got 5 grams of White Widow. Both 35e and under I believe. The bubblegum was quite strong actually and I struggled to even finish it. In fact I ended up leaving around 2 grams of it in an ashtray at the end of my trip. It was all shake dust by then. BTW if anyone wasn't aware there is a little mini RLD around the streets that come out in front of Anyday... very cool. I had to try and take a movie of course. I didn't think there would be anyone working there at that time but there were a few!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7RTn_8mGp4

We decided to try and find Dampkring again but first we should maybe hit a few in Liedsplein first. So we got the tram there....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lob3Fn50QVQ

We went to Rookies first, I bought a gram of Super Maroc 11e. Very tasty and was a long lasting high! I also tried one of their chocolate cakes they have and all ill say is it's a good thing I don't live there otherwise id be twice the size I am now! After that we wanted to use the internet and found this place that let you smoke there... I thought the guys who ran this were a bit rude. They took a while to serve us.



Later on we went to try and find De Dampkring again. I said we should just hop on the tram and get off at Koningsplein but my mate was sure he knew where it was. We done a few circles and eventually passed Dolphins. My feet were starting to hurt (lol) so we went in there for a bit.



The interior is very cool, lot's of Dolphins plastered on the wall and other sea related stuff. I bought a gram of the Dolphin special. The packaging was different to other baggies, not sure how to describe it but it was a more translucent type closer to paper too. Plus the baggie sticker had some writing on it - "The purest weed in town" or something to that effect. Anyway the gear itself was good, easy to crumble, even better in the grinder, and lots of crystals. We got chatting to these 2 girls, 1 of which I later found out was the other girls mother. Just goes to show how hammered I was. The mother came up to me and started asking me if I thought it would be ok to take this bag across the channel. It was a 5gr bag of something but anyway we got to talking and it turns out they were on a round the world trip and were passing through Amsterdam for a few days. I think she was a bit of an activist, she was telling us some crazy stuff.

We took a little walk through the centrum after that to try and find Hunters..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pDPEhMsCJ4

Found it and we went in. I asked for a few shakes and I think they were out of some Ben and Jerries ice cream. I didn't mind that but the tone of his voice was rude to say the least. We had our shakes, which were nice, used the net a bit and left.

We decided we should maybe go do some shopping and stock up the hotel fridge. The Albert Heijns are all over the place so finding one is no problem. I bought a loaf of bread, some nice cheese or 'kaas', as well as drinks, mini donughts, cookies and several bars of milka and this other stuff called Cote D'or. We chilled in the hotel for a few hours, got changed... had dinner in the hotel again, same pastas would you believe lol and then headed out into the centrum. We went into one of the Stones places, it was small so maybe the cafe? Anyway there were 2 ladies behind the counter and we were the only ones waiting to be served. One of them was eating some take away food and feeding the other. They both had the giggles and were taking a while to serve us. The one of them sarcastically said "Sorry we are really busy at the moment". I laughed along all in good humor but after a few more minutes we said fuck this and left.

We found the other Hill St Blues place and my mate got a gram of cheese. By this point I think I was close to whitying so I relaxed with a drink and a hash joint. After that we decided it was time for some 'Red Light Fun!' so we started off at The Old Church. My mate got 2 grams of something, can't remember but upstairs was free so we went there to chill. I remember reading someone on here said upstairs by the window was a good place to sit as it was opposite a block of maybe 6 Kamers. That was an entertaining hour indeed, maybe 7 guys went in and out of there in that time. lol Also as I later found out that block was all all ladies, not even worthy of the term MILF. We walked passed there after and one of them was stood there smoking the biggest cigar ever! lol We both burst out laughing as we headed deeper into the RLD. I got a picture of this little block a few days later during the afternoon. The ladies get to work early!



We went to the Bulldog (yes I know) but we only had drinks here, had a quick joint each and left. BTW Upstairs from there is a good view into some Kamers too. We then went into this place whose name I can't remember. It's bang in the RLD and as you go in you have to duck your head a bit, and further in there is a pool room which doubles up as the smoking room. Anyone know what that's called? I think it might have actually been the RLD Cofffeeshop. Anyway there was a comical moment there too. These 2 young lads walked in and bought a pre rolled joint to share. (both British btw) One of them sparked it up there at the counter and the guy said sorry but smoking is only allowed in the smoking room. For some reason these 2 lads couldn't grasp this fact and just stood there with a blank expression on their face. I was watching all this and my mate and I both turned to each other at the same time to start crack up. BTW It was quite full in the smoking room so we skinned up in the main room before going into the smoking room. A few moments later the 2 lads burst out of the room stumbling all over the place looking for the exit. Both budtenders were stood there arms crossed and shook their heads laughing at the same time. I saw all this and was in fits at the same time and one of them must have noticed so he gave me a glance too. It was a comical moment! When we did go in the room we found a near full joint that had been dashed out and left on the floor. Must have been too strong for those 2!

We headed back to the hotel, but not before some more RLD fun and attempts to record them!

PS Although I was tempted I didn't go into an Kamers, although I did joke around with a few. I went up to one and said how much for Anal.. but not anal like me and you would say. Think Ali G in cannes... 'uppy the bummy'. lol She said she didn't do it but if I liked it that much she would be willing to f**k me in the arse.

....anyway im gyming tomorrow evening so might not get a chance to post more until the next day.

So far the best weed I have tried is the Chocolope from HGF.

Peace

Nice reporting Bav. I was laughing over yer adventures in the RLD. Keep it up.

bavlondon wrote:

That's Coffeeshop Get Down to It. I stumbled in there once to use the internet and was surprised at how large it was, given that you had to descend a flight of stairs to enter. The bud/drinks counter is in a separate enclosed area while the rest of the space had pool tables and lounge seating. I thought the layout of the shop was well designed in that the employees were protected from second-hand smoke in their corner of the shop while customers were able to spread out in the remaining space. It's a haven for tobacco smokers who aren't herded into a tiny pen as they are elsewhere. I wish other coffeeshops would follow their example. Pity to hear about the poor service you received tho'.

bavlondon wrote:Think Ali G in cannes... 'uppy the bummy'. lol She said she didn't do it but if I liked it that much she would be willing to f**k me in the arse.

Thanks mate, I have to rapidly press a few keys on keyboard to get them to respond 'cos of this!

Sweet TR so far though, keep it up!