When arriving in Amsterdam…

[USbongLord]

dammit ...i get in the blue van outside the airport and if im the only passenger i can usually get the driver to hit the first shop we see so i can be baked by the arrival to my hotel

[hardboiled]

turn right, flail arms above head, and run straight to Stubbe Haring for a fish with a dutch flag stuck in it.

Shortly followed by one or more of Siberie, Rokerij, Doors, or Picasso.

[FitZerOy]

Turned left for years though this year turned right for the first time on way to a new apt, good to switch things up I reckon

[darkglobe]

Turn right and head to Picasso (via the pipe shop)...only 7 weeks

[kadysdad]

Go left hit central coffee shop then misses makes me go to Hunters for her Big Budha or Budhas sister

5 WEEKS TO GO

[cantona7]

if its late enough i head for 420 cafe. but usually i get an early arrival so i hit dampkring or something.

[Skwurl]

i head to the right, towards haarlemerstraat because i usu arrive @ Central Station between 750 and 840, so a solid brekky (barney's) is in order, along with some top gear scored at (newer) dampkring. from there i head down the herengracht to grab amnesia haze @ amnesia, unless i am hell bent on starting my dam trip off with the amnesia haze, IF that can outlast my hunger jones after a transaltantic flight.

even after 13 trips, I agree with the poster who feels the stir of those excited/anxious butterflies upon exiting central station....though now happy, welcoming butterflies!

[islandgurl]

Depends on my time of arrival and where I'm staying. Last April Blueberry and I got a shuttle from the airport to the corner of the Singel and Harlemmerstraat because it was before 7 am. Went to Barney's and then to visit a friend who lives near there. Normally I go to 420, Green Place and Basjoe when I first get in if it's not too early. After the junk I've bought at Central, I'll never go back there again.

[CHELSEA_SMOKERS_SOCIETY]

as the vast majority of my trips have been early arrivals, i usually head straight out, to the top of damrak, and then head dead right, pass rastababy, past rokerij/bulldog/doors and through haarlemerstraat to barneys

ahhh good times

[Colina]

Always straigt to GVB Stationsplein geting a chipcard (formerly strippenkaart)!
Then straight to Coffeeshop Central for the first prerolled!

[Spliphy]

can't stand walking with luggage so a taxi trip from and to CS on the first and last day

i'll usually rent a bike for a week or so to negotiate A'dam ... feet get tired fast, but not my legs i guess.