Back home to this ... Was great to spend four weeks in the Netherlands ...(ahh retirement) ,to meet those of you we did , and see again those of you we did ... Our own Cup winner this year was the Super Silver Haze from Hill St. We're not strain geeks ,and we did visit Voyagers , and Utopia , which seem the current hot shops in this forum ...Nel at Utopia had no problem letting us sample much of the menu in Half gram bits .. a policy we approve of ,and that brought us back a few times But we stand by our choice . Best Hash joint - Cremers in den Haag ...other worthies since I posted earlier -Katsu ,Baghjeera , Greenhouse (though its pretty pricey at 5 E up from 3.60 last year).
The Kitty lives between Utrechtesstraat and The Amstel .. Since we were last there , they did a nice job giving the Big U
a facelift , and the 4 trams are running again . It's beehive straat ...Too bad its a pretty dead area for Coffeeshops ...Stix seems to offer good weed , but not my kind of sit and chill vibe ...and they ALWAYS seem to try to sell you more than you asked for ..."this Much OK " 1.8 grams ... "I said ONE gram " ..."this OK" ....1.4 grams ..."I SAID ONE GRAM" .... Though I hear if you're a regular and buy in large Quantities they WILL do considerable discounts ... Barneys Lounge on Reg.Gracht is about as close to the kitty ,but they pissed us off early with the crappy Grinspoon ...the Rembrandtplein shops are way to pricey .Don't think we bought in any of them , not even a hash joint ...but did look at menus ...I know most of you scoff at pre-rolls ...and there is a lot of crap out there .
But there are the Joint Police out there we found ...
We were in CS Waterworld den Haag ...2 dutch guys bought a weed joint , sat next to us and proceeded to unroll and
dump on the table the contents ...seperate weed from tabac ...call the budtender over and show him the amount of weed vs.tabac ...get a new free joint, do the same thing , reroll the two piles of weed with one Js worth of tabac , stashed the rest and smoked their joint ...told us they were on a quest to make pre-rolls a better deal,wrote down a thing or two in their little black book,and were on their way ...good luck guys ... BTW -the expert did pick "Jetlag " from the Waterworld Menu as the best we found in den Haag ( and interestingly enough the budtender DID tell us that was their best weed ,even over the pricier strains ...
Then after a week cat sitting ...it was on to Leeuwarden for what turned into a five day weekend ....where rock-n-roll bands float down the gracht playing the Key to the Highway
We didn't see any coffee shops while there....
