FlyByNite wrote:Nice first day.
Three words. - Rent a bike
Well, three more. - Get menu pix
Enjoy
FlyByNite
Finally rented a bike on last day/night of trip. Due to past bad experiences of losing my bike in the Dam I used it very carefully. Only parking in memorable and easily remembered locations.
As far as menu pics go it seemed like up to date menus are already posted as I used them to make my choices!
However in Haarlem I plan to try and snap every shops menu that will allow it.
Anyhow... on my break before returning for another 3 days on Friday. Had fun meeting up with fellow ACD members at Utopia and Club Media. At Media I had the pot of gold and 3 other products I've already forgotten about!
At Utopia I had the Nepalese Temple Ball which was also pretty good. The shop was pretty busy being late at night.
Damn this trip is beginning to feel like one of those 'Hangover' movies except without the hangover of course! Can't remember very much really.
During day 2 I started out at Barney's cos I wanted to try the Liberty Haze and Dr Grindspoon in their volcano vape. Met a couple of folks from Essex who wanted me to show them a few coffeeshops. In particular they wanted a strong space cake. Since I was going there next anyway I suggested Paradox.
Unfortunately this turned out to be a bad idea as they started to be distinctly uncool at Paradox. One of them lost his passport. He immediately started to make trouble with the very cool budtender accusing him out of the blue of keeping his passport. Meanwhile I found the passport on the floor next to his seat.
After Paradox where I bought 4 items for 5 eu each it was a quick trip to Grey area for a buy and fly. Forgot what they all were but the Grey Area was very good Grey area was packed as always and very friendly and helpful of course.
Next it was to Amnesia where my companions started to complain about having no money left despite having a day and a half left of a 3 day trip.
Vaped the weed from Grey area and may have bought something there to but cannot remember. Anyway. Bought my 'friends' some drinks which one of them tried to parlay into another space cake. He was constantly complaining that the Paradox one did nothing.
Next it my companions wanted a look at the Red Lights and since it was on the way to Greenplace I obliged them. At Greenplace my luck changed and they didn't come in. Here I had the Pineapple Kush and the Blueberry Cheese. Both were excellent. Especially the Pineapple Kush.
By this time it was getting close to the time to meet up at 1eHulp. So after consulting my map and not finding it I went to where I thought it was and of course it was not there. After wandering around fruitlessly for an hour I got a tram back to the bike hire place near the Movenpick and rented a bike for 24 hours because the next day I had planned to visit Club Media.
Back at the Hotel I gave the chaps in the underground car park security booth something to do as I rode the newly hired bike around the lot looking for the bike parking which as it turns out is right by the entrance/exit.
Again they were very friendly and happy to help although a few more laps around the parking lot would have been just fine by me too!
A quick shower and snooze seemed to be in order but I overslept to 11pm so grabbed the bike and headed for Leidsplein to find a bar to smoke in. However after getting to Niewmarket it was so cold I decided to find someplace a bit closer. A bar I know allows smoking is called 'Cafe Remember.'
Smoked some lemon haze probably from Amnesia which was excellent and the whole bar started dancing during the last 30mins of the night. Quite a lot of fun overall. Not what I was expecting either! After that it was time to get back to the warmth of the hotel. A chilly bike ride later I was back in bed.
The next day was only a 1/2 day really. Had a T&T over at Club Media to attend so got over to Albert Cuyp Straat early to get breakfast, have a look around and get smoking early as I had to leave at 2pm. So after a herring roll and some other munchies it was off to Club Media.
In my pocket from last night was an unfinished Dr Grindspoon/Liberty Haze joint and a pineapple kush joint.
To this I added a Champagne haze, pot of gold and another (I forgot) joint to the pile.
The champagne haze was nice enough but the clear winner of the overall trip was the Dr Grindspoon/liberty haze joint.
At noon the ACDer's came in and we chatted while we 'disposed' of the rest of the trips weed.
soon it was time to go and the rest of the trip went remarkably smoothly considering I was still stoned for the next 36 hours!
Now i have a 'dry' week to lower the tolerance levels before returning to either Haarlem or Amsterdam for the weekend. Does anyone have any hotel ideas for city center Haarlem?
Will try and get some snaps as well as taking a few notes while I'm in Haarlem.
