What is in your must have Amsterdam travel kit?

[jimbo-usa]

Comfy broken-in shoes and a frisbee. Frisbees make great rolling trays.

And here I've been trying to figure out how I could get a rolling tray through customs.

[stonedwolf]

I know my hotel room doesn't have tea & coffee facilities, so a small travel kettle with individual packets of both ordinary coffee and latte. I NEED my caffeine, especially if I'm smoking in/near my hotel. It's only 0.4 litres but that's enough.

Earplugs. This are also one of the best things you can take to a festival.

iPod with small battery-operated docking station speakers. Cypress Hill at 2am? OH HELL YEAH!

[Kermit]

Plastic, plasters and headache tablets, I have thought hard and honestly that's all I need.

[Slip & Sal]

A Sharpie, to write on the bags so I know what's what

Wow a sharpie over here is so different to a pen?

[stonedwolf]

A Sharpie, to write on the bags so I know what's what

Wow a sharpie over here is so different to a pen?

Most pens don't write on plastic bags, and "Sharpie" is less to type than "felt-tipped permanent marker". They're also part of US popular culture, heavily advertised, referenced in song and film, they sponsored a NASCAR series for a decade, Beckham promoted them, etc.

A bit like when your mum says she's going to hoover even though she's using a non-Hoover brand vacuum cleaner.

[GreenGhirl]

Great thread! Just trying to think of things to take with me for my trip! Ordered some elements papers and need to go into Glasgow and stock up on tip books and maybe some old Skool highlanders lol. Taking the obvious money,clothes etc my list is just things ill be needing on my smoking travels

List so far:
Rolling papers (Elements and Raw so far)
2x clipper lighters one for on my travels one as back up
Grinder with scuff catcher and my old faithful plastic one
Cigarettes
Paracetamol
Stash tin
Phone with maps and music
Chewing gum
Haribo sweets/chocolate and just some things to snack on when got munchies!
Will get juice and water when I arrive
Wipes and some hand gel
Small notebook so can try and remember what I smoke when there!

[Jackfm]

This time I'm bring the Tomtom.
It has an "on foot" mode and I've save all the coffeeshops I want to visit along with the address of or apartment

[swizzy]

Raw papers
Lighter
Ipad
Money
Jacket with lots of pockets.

[feelgood]

I don't like carrying a backback, but looks like it might be mandatory after reading these lists and seeing everything one might need...

I was thinking/hoping most everything except red-eye solution, or at least the basics (lighter/torch, papers, pipe, snacks, drinks) would be available at the coffeeshops...

[matty223]

myself,

[thompaw]

A small power strip worked great last time I was there and a couple of rolls of neon duct tape were handy to have.

[Roo-Vee-Bo]

I don't like carrying a backback, but looks like it might be mandatory after reading these lists and seeing everything one might need...

I was thinking/hoping most everything except red-eye solution, or at least the basics (lighter/torch, papers, pipe, snacks, drinks) would be available at the coffeeshops...

They are. Most coffeeshops have free papers, roach and grinders etc.

[Smith2]

I'm always neurotic about forgetting something that I can't get where I'm going, and up to now haven't done.

This time I took out my trusty plug adapter out of my case – and I'd picked up the wrong one back home. If I want to charge my phone, or anything else, I'll have to pop over to New York to do it. With luck – and I'm not counting on it – there'll be one at the hotel in Amsterdam. The ubiquitous two-for-a-pound things are harder to come by on the continent, and overpriced when you find them, if Belgium is anything to go by; it's not worth even bothering to look in Leeuwarden, where British tourists seem non-existent. Sod's Law ensures that my phone battery appears to be dying as well, so needs frequent charging. Or would if I kept it on, but I've turned it off to save what's left for an emergency. Though it probably will refuse to turn on again, as it goes into sulks.

[feelgood]

Where do you get smell proof bags?

[gronin]

Comfy broken-in shoes and a frisbee. Frisbees make great rolling trays.

And here I've been trying to figure out how I could get a rolling tray through customs.

Newspapers also make functional rolling trays and are readily available. You can check your horoscope at the same time... Aries: today will be hazy...