verticalsquare's first Amsterdam trip 23-26Nov2011

[verticalSquare]

great trip report!i loved the bike part only in Amterdam

Thanks! Yes, the drunk / stoned bike ride around the city was definitely one of the highlights of the trip. Will be renting a bike next time I'm back.

[verticalSquare]

Really enjoyable read, taking me straight back to my favourite place. cheers!

No worries - enjoyed your last one where you went to Delft. We had actually planned on going there on the Friday but weather wasn't great in the morning. Will try and make it next time I'm over, looks like a really nice chilled place to spend a day.

[verticalSquare]

Day 3 & 4

Another fitful night of sleep, kept waking up from people snoring and eventually at 5am I decided to get up and rolled a spliff of Sweeth Tooth from Barneys (someone from the Hostel had given a bit under a g of this to me the previous day as they were leaving Amsterdam). Very nice mellow smoke and I listened to my ipod in bed for half an hour before falling back into another fitful sleep for another two hours or so.

When both T and I were up and had had breakfast we decided we'd go to Artus zoo as I've always wanted to see an aquarium and the one at the zoo was supposed to be very good. Rolled a joint which was a mix of the remainder of the Sweeth Tooth, some Amnesia Haze from Media and some Blueberry from Mellow Yellow. T rolled a joint of S5 Haze and we smoked both joints before going into the zoo. Seeing a large camel's head staring at me as I began peaking on the cocktail of the weed in those two joints nearly sent me into hysterics of laughter when I walked into the entrance but I somehow managed to keep it together and we strolled around looking at leopards, elephants and various wild cats.

The reptile house was absolutely amazing and worth going to the zoo for this alone. There's a huge Burmese python in a glass case which looks absolutely terrifying. Must be about 8 foot long with enormous ripples of muscle. Some great fourescent green lizards also (its funny the association of lizards with psychedelic experiences - in both Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, and the recent movie Bad Leuitanant with Nick Cage (one of my favorite movies of the last few years). Movie directors these days seem to think that if someone's off their head on drugs then there has to be a lizard involved somehow and I've no problem with this at all).

The aquarium was as good as I had hoped. There's something really strange and intriguing about standing in a dark room surrounded by fish. We then hit the Van Gogh museum which was great - really liked some of the landscapes - then off to Café Loetje for steaks. WOW! This place really is amazing - it was absolutely packed with Dutch people, and there was that lovely white noise of Dutch chatter and the clinking of beer glasses. Absolutely loved this place. Gorgeous steak for only 16 euros, cooked to perfection, with an amazing salad which had a ridiculously strong dressing. Definitely coming back here on my next trip.

Then off to the Red Light District to do the usual touristy thing of staring at prostitutes and feeling slightly seedy. Some really beautiful girls here and I felt sad for them that their life had led them to standing in a window in Amsterdam while drunken yobs gawked at them from outside. Surreal, arousing, ultimately depressing, exactly as I had expected.

We went into 420 Cafe, which I really loved. Best music of the trip - some really good sixties american rock - really friendly budtender and excellent weed. The NYC Diesel was one of the standout smokes of the trip - T and I had probably had about 7 beers at this stage and the combination of the beer and the Diesel left me feeling like I had just taken a bomb of MDMA. Amazing smell to it - like bubble gum mixed with a faint smell of rotting bark.

Everything is extremely blurry at this stage. We bought some truffles, took a few, went back to 420 to smoke more NYC Diesel, then staggered around the city until we saw Burger Bar and sat there gorging on burgers and chips in a completely sorry state. Woke up the next day with my jeans covered in dark evil looking patches of burger grease.

Day 4 was very uneventful - just went into Abraxas to take a look and then took the flight home.

Closing thoughts:

Best Smokes:

SSH - Club Media
KD - Paradox
NYC Diesel - 420 Cafe

Regrets:

Not staying in a hotel - was consistently tired the whole trip due to people snoring at my hostel. Never again...
Not staying for longer - 3 / 4 days isn't nearly long enough.
Would have been nice to meet up with a few people from this forum in Basjoes but it just wasn't going to happen... Next time.

[boywonder]

good read. I suspect I shall be writing a similar tale of smoking and stumbling. previous trips have gone that way. cheers

[Cisco]

Great writing style man , really enjoyed it ! That's the one thing that put a dampner on my trip NO cafe Loetje

Did Stacey Keech not turn into a lizard too ?

[east_island]

BTW..how was the S5 Haze from Mellow Yellow...any feedback??

[verticalSquare]

BTW..how was the S5 Haze from Mellow Yellow...any feedback??

Hi. To be honest, I'm not actually sure - as when I smoked it it was within a cocktail of 3 other types of weed. Kind of annoying as this was one of the strains I really wanted to try. The combination of the effects of 4 different strains simultaneously was overwhelming, to say the least.

[verticalSquare]

great stat to the report (real jealous of the cheap bike but was probably stolen ) cant wait to read more

Cheers mate.

Great writing style man , really enjoyed it ! That's the one thing that put a dampner on my trip NO cafe Loetje

Did Stacey Keech not turn into a lizard too ?

Thanks - good point about Stacey Keech Someone should make a list...

[Lloydy]

Enjoyed the read thanks

[papashango]

Enjoyed the read thanks

ditto!

[woodz60]

"The combination of the effects of 4 different strains simultaneously was overwhelming, to say the least."

I experienced this phenomenon on my first day of my last trip to the 'dam (after promising myself I wouldn't smoke for at least a couple of hours after arriving.) A friend from Texas unexpectedly found me on Spuistraat. He introduced me to 2 of his new buddies and we all contributed to a cocktail j at Dolphins. Details became very sketchy from this point....

Thanks for the great report!!

[Kingdoc]

Great report!

[ftcarer]

Excellent write-up so far

I found Paradox after about twenty minutes of being slightly lost, looked at the menu and then asked the friendly budtender to see a few of the Sativas. The KD looked the best so I bought a gram of that (I asked the budtender what strain it was but can't remember what he said exactly

As I don't smoke much at all these days, this joint hit me HARD. .

Lovely smoke that KD , I never found out what it was either I smoke everyday if poss & it kicked the crap out of me aswell

[geekymonkey]

Super report! Thanks so much for taking the time.

[soapy]

superb trip report makes great reading ....