March 12th to 15th
Posted: Thu 17th Mar 2011 05:13 pm
Saturday 12th March 2011
After a massive countdown starting some 230 odd days ago, the morning myself and D had been waiting for has finally arrived.
Also on this trip to celebrate my birthday in Feb and D's at the begining of March are our Partners who don't smoke at all.
After a mega early morning start we arrive about 1030am to our hotel to drop our bags off. Initially we had to walk around with our other halves and behave,once they'd got bored of us dragging our heels, making noises and generally acting like children we rushed into the closest coffeeshop,having been to the dam a couple of times before and just stuck to the same coffeeshop that i really liked I didn't really know which overpriced noisey tourist trap of a shop to go into. Unfortunately we chose Hunters, the small one on the corner, the music was pumped up too high and there wasn't a particually good vibe to the place but still we looked at the menu as the girls were gonna come back to collect us once they'd had a look around, so we needed a hit and needed to get rolling quick smart. As I glanced down the menu I saw a few names that were now familiar From reading trip reports etc from here, when I asked the budtender to recommended something that was strong he pointed me at the 100% sativa €16 a gram and showed it to me,didn't think it looked particually great but needed a hit before we'd have to do touristy stuff and thought I'd give it a try.
100% sativa -for the 1st smoke it wasn't too bad,did the trick got us pretty battered,but was a rather harsh smoke on the throat, got upscaled on the green and ended up getting €23 worth.But couldn't be arsed to question it as was already having to raise my voice to be heard in there and was gagging to smoke.
After an hour on a canal cruise (which I might add was quite good) and a bumble around for a bit we made our way back to the hotel to get checked in and have a quick fresh up.
On the way back out we were given a surprise coffee shop pass by the girls. The smaller of the two Grasshoppers was a few paces away from our hotel. Again it was 1st day school boy errors,at several points prior to purchasing the green we should have said bollocks to the budtender.
1. Both Grasshoppers are known on here for being a tourist trap with crap weed
2. Not allowed to smoke your own weed.
3. Smallest amount he sold was two gramms?
Rather than thinking hold up let's go somewhere else my mate proceded to purchase 2gramms of bubble gum as the hot chocs had been made whilst we were deciding which herb we wanted.
4. Piss Poor hot chocolates €5 each
Bubble Gum €25 2g
I didn't try this as i continued with my previous purchase.
D reported it was alright but nothing special.
Would rather chew on foil with fillings than give this place our custom again.
Complete rip off but we let it happen.
Finally after two miss fires and several hours of trotting around the centrum, The girls were in need of an evening kip. Hooray as we high fived walked the girls back to the hotel and then picked up the pace to get to one of the coffeshops we'd planned to visit on this trip.
Right let's go somewhere we know should be Special..... Amnesia... we have found our solstice... It was so nice to walk into a coffeeshop and feel relaxed and at ease from the moment we stepped over the threshold. After staring at the menu for a few mins and a quick chat with the budtender we purchased 1g of Lsd. Sat down skinned up and just chilled,the music was a great mix of allsorts of funky and chilled tunes Inc Kruder & Dorfmeister and Roots Manuva, we were happily mashed and both finally felt like we'd arrived, we stayed for a couple of hours.
1g LSD €13 lovely bud with a real nice smell,very smooth and a real nice high not to overpowering.
Once we had been out for tea with the girls and been for a
walk down the RLD for a bit of window shopping, we headed back over towards the hotel,stuck two fingers up at the grasshopper crossed the road down the alley and into Abraxas Too to purchase a €3.5 pre rolled spliff so we didn't feel too rude smoking our own in there and a round of drinks.
I continued with a combi of LSD,bubblegum and 100%.
D had a couple of friends over in the Dam whilst we were there, we'd hoped to have met up with them in Amnesia but they were sleeping off their earlier session when we were in there.
By the time D's friends finally made it over i was in a state, said hello to them then swiftly left with both the girls for the short walk back to the hotel whilst D caught up with them.
The fresh air quickly sorted me out and brought me back down.
The upstairs room In Abraxas Too Needs better ventilation, gets way too smokey up there if there's more than couple of smokes going round other than that a nice friendly coffeeshop.
Goodnight Amsterdam.....
Paradox tomorrow morning.
After a massive countdown starting some 230 odd days ago, the morning myself and D had been waiting for has finally arrived.
Also on this trip to celebrate my birthday in Feb and D's at the begining of March are our Partners who don't smoke at all.
After a mega early morning start we arrive about 1030am to our hotel to drop our bags off. Initially we had to walk around with our other halves and behave,once they'd got bored of us dragging our heels, making noises and generally acting like children we rushed into the closest coffeeshop,having been to the dam a couple of times before and just stuck to the same coffeeshop that i really liked I didn't really know which overpriced noisey tourist trap of a shop to go into. Unfortunately we chose Hunters, the small one on the corner, the music was pumped up too high and there wasn't a particually good vibe to the place but still we looked at the menu as the girls were gonna come back to collect us once they'd had a look around, so we needed a hit and needed to get rolling quick smart. As I glanced down the menu I saw a few names that were now familiar From reading trip reports etc from here, when I asked the budtender to recommended something that was strong he pointed me at the 100% sativa €16 a gram and showed it to me,didn't think it looked particually great but needed a hit before we'd have to do touristy stuff and thought I'd give it a try.
100% sativa -for the 1st smoke it wasn't too bad,did the trick got us pretty battered,but was a rather harsh smoke on the throat, got upscaled on the green and ended up getting €23 worth.But couldn't be arsed to question it as was already having to raise my voice to be heard in there and was gagging to smoke.
After an hour on a canal cruise (which I might add was quite good) and a bumble around for a bit we made our way back to the hotel to get checked in and have a quick fresh up.
On the way back out we were given a surprise coffee shop pass by the girls. The smaller of the two Grasshoppers was a few paces away from our hotel. Again it was 1st day school boy errors,at several points prior to purchasing the green we should have said bollocks to the budtender.
1. Both Grasshoppers are known on here for being a tourist trap with crap weed
2. Not allowed to smoke your own weed.
3. Smallest amount he sold was two gramms?
Rather than thinking hold up let's go somewhere else my mate proceded to purchase 2gramms of bubble gum as the hot chocs had been made whilst we were deciding which herb we wanted.
4. Piss Poor hot chocolates €5 each
Bubble Gum €25 2g
I didn't try this as i continued with my previous purchase.
D reported it was alright but nothing special.
Would rather chew on foil with fillings than give this place our custom again.
Complete rip off but we let it happen.
Finally after two miss fires and several hours of trotting around the centrum, The girls were in need of an evening kip. Hooray as we high fived walked the girls back to the hotel and then picked up the pace to get to one of the coffeshops we'd planned to visit on this trip.
Right let's go somewhere we know should be Special..... Amnesia... we have found our solstice... It was so nice to walk into a coffeeshop and feel relaxed and at ease from the moment we stepped over the threshold. After staring at the menu for a few mins and a quick chat with the budtender we purchased 1g of Lsd. Sat down skinned up and just chilled,the music was a great mix of allsorts of funky and chilled tunes Inc Kruder & Dorfmeister and Roots Manuva, we were happily mashed and both finally felt like we'd arrived, we stayed for a couple of hours.
1g LSD €13 lovely bud with a real nice smell,very smooth and a real nice high not to overpowering.
Once we had been out for tea with the girls and been for a
walk down the RLD for a bit of window shopping, we headed back over towards the hotel,stuck two fingers up at the grasshopper crossed the road down the alley and into Abraxas Too to purchase a €3.5 pre rolled spliff so we didn't feel too rude smoking our own in there and a round of drinks.
I continued with a combi of LSD,bubblegum and 100%.
D had a couple of friends over in the Dam whilst we were there, we'd hoped to have met up with them in Amnesia but they were sleeping off their earlier session when we were in there.
By the time D's friends finally made it over i was in a state, said hello to them then swiftly left with both the girls for the short walk back to the hotel whilst D caught up with them.
The fresh air quickly sorted me out and brought me back down.
The upstairs room In Abraxas Too Needs better ventilation, gets way too smokey up there if there's more than couple of smokes going round other than that a nice friendly coffeeshop.
Goodnight Amsterdam.....
Paradox tomorrow morning.
