Ideal Day in Amsterdam???

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A ideal day in the ‘Dam is like your perfect golf or tennis game – you only remember the best strokes from your entire experience & shove’em together.

I'm usually staying in a B&B type place so I eat there. squirelling away some fruit for a snack later. Then I tend to go to Abraxas in the morning & have coffee, and use their internet to check e-mail. Or do it late afternoon/early evening. Or both, Abraxas is nice.

Do something planned for that day – museum, stroll to something like the begijnhof, or go to the Waterloopein flea market. Shop in stores if I need something. Maybe jump into Dampkring if it’s not crowded, or Rookerij near the Singel.

I usually go in the off season, so there’s a chill in the air – lunch at Tara’s on the Rokin in front of one of the fires (also an evening place), that is, if there ain’t no football on & its not packed w/ drunken fans;
or go out of the center to someplace like Café Ter Brugge
or go to a brown cafe type place in the Jordaan or East;
or someplace like Cafe Prins.

If checking out a favorite afternoon haunt, go to de Kuil or Greenhouse Centrum or Sensei Coffeeshop (this may soon include Old Church, Noon, Amnesia, Tweede Kramer after this trip).

Or, plan on going to Grey Area; and Chocalata for some nice cake; & those spots over in that area.

Or worm my way to a good brewpub like Brouwerij 't IJ.

Or, Vondelpark, no matter what time of year

Or, spend a couple of hours or three in a good sauna, get a massage.

Or jus sittin’ & a readin’ or playing cards at one of the places above.

Evening, hit Greenhouse Centrum or de Kuil or Rookerij at Leidesplein; if got a date, make it Rookerij at Muntplein or Absinthe Cafe.

After dinner in Chinatown, go to clubs at Rembrandtplein or vegas nite or whatever; start chewing on some shrooms & smokin'.

Late nite, end up at Waterhole or Korsakoff &/or MaloMalo or Paridiso or Melkweg or a good rave.

Then die happy after this 72 hour day is over ;-)


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CityLiver wrote:Late nite, end up at Waterhole or Korsakoff
Korsakoff is probably about the only "club" I would care to visit in Amsterdam. It's the only one that caters the most to my musical tastes and probably the only one that isn't full of designer label clad poseurs.

I have never been clubbing in Amsterdam, so I have to ask what your opinions of Korskakoff are?

Is it your typical rock/metal joint (dark, loud, with friendly clientele/)
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Not to rub it in, but I'm on me 4th ideal day this week!. 8) :lol:
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For me, the ideal day consists of sleeping until noon since I'm usually pickled as fuck from the previous day(s) activities. Upon waking, it's a fat blunt to the head in the hotel room while getting a good laugh at some Dutch TV. Once motivation to get off my ass and go out is gathered, it's off to find food. On an ideal day, I'll find food I can stomach but that's not the easiest thing to do in Amsterdam. Some of those Snack places are downright scary. After eating it's off to a coffeeshop where there's ample seating as by this time it's after 1:00 and all the good coffeeshops are getting crowded, especially if it's the weekend. After that, time for a stroll in De Wallen and have more great laughs. I like to be real obnoxious and spark up in the covered area with the indoor kamers. Such a liberating feeling to be in the hallway of a mini whorehouse smoking weed and no one is saying shit about it. I always stop in the Old Church coffeeshop when I'm in that hood. They have some damned cute Dutch waitresses in there. More Wallen action. Next coffeeshop. More bad food. Usually by then it's off to do a pit-stop at the room and get ready for the evening which usually consists of more Wallen action. Smoke up in Dread Rock for the novelty experience and nothing else. Trram it to Rokerij Leidseplein, best coffeeshop at night for a lively atmosphere. Dime waitresses there as well. Back to the Wallen. Watch guys go into a kamer and laugh as they emerge a mere 7 minutes later with a disappointed look on their face. Exchange pleasantries with the Wallen girls. Some of these girls have GREAT sales pitches, some you have to damned near beat off with a stick. It's all in good fun. This will go on until it's last call time at the coffeeshops where it'll be time to pop in for some end-of-day purchases and one final coffeeshop smoke and maybe a beer. More Wallen action follows, until the feet are hurting so bad one can't take any more and it's back to the room for some marathon potsmoking until I'm passed out to the enchanting jingles of Dutch phone sex advertisements, which are locked in on the TV the entire evening. I simply can't get enough of those 0906-whatever commercials!

P.S.- Doog mentioned going to Korsakoff. I tried to get there on a Thursday evening and it was closed. Does anyone here know if it's only open on the weekend or if it's closed just on Thursdays for some reason?
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Post by chigusa »

i just smoke weed all day long. ive been going to amsterdam for donkeys years and i can honestly say the thing that keeps bringing me back is the weed and hash. i dont go with whores, cant stand museums, dont drink and i think most great art is vastly over rated.
these last few trips i have taken the time to meet up with people from the channels, and even though i think this whole business of internet forums being like families is a nonsense, i have managed to meet some decent people.
anyway, ideal day in amsterdam. get up early, start smoking dope, eat at various points in the day, go to bed late. easy. oh yeah, i like to hire a bike. just makes getting around that much easier.
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I went for a week, and am again in August.
If i want a day of realy enjoying the full potential of ADam, start the morning with a quick smoke of whatever has survived the previous night.
Go to Dolphins to start the day, and have a smoke with a space tea. (Don't then camp or you will never leave!) Then head off up to Bushdocters. By the time you get there the tea should be kicking in nicely and you can carry on with maybe some nice Diesel.
Then on is wherever you can manage going to!
Couldn't do this everyday i don't think (mainly because the tea realy fries my brain!) or i would remember very little of the wonderful city! 8)

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Sometimes I think my ideal day in Amsterdam, will be the day I leave. :roll:
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DC wrote:Sometimes I think my ideal day in Amsterdam, will be the day I leave. :roll:
Sounds like you need a holiday DC!! Fance a role-reversal this summer, so you can live a week of being a uni student on summer break by the beach...and I get to work in a coffeeshop for a week?? Sound good??

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.....then the sun comes out, parklife! 8)

I do need a holiday though, beach break sounds nice....but I'm thinkin more like 2 weeks to a month and preferably somewhere I don't know anybody. It's been about 8 years since I've had a holiday that wasn't goin home or to stay with friends. I was planing to split 4 weeks in half with the Burning man festival in California in August this year until I had to visit the dentist. :roll: Flights are just a little too steep so it'll be 'potluck' somewhere around the Spain probably. Cheap with sun.....and drug free. :shock: Y'know, I could probably earn more money renting my job out by the week than I get paid for doin it.....can't see the boss goin for that though. :D
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The Northern side of Ibiza, Portinatx, Figuertas and the like could be just what you're looking for. Far away enough from all of that Club 18-30 madness which I don't think you would appreciate anyway.

I'm sure Mallorca and Menorca have similarly picturesque areas as well.

I have never been to the Canary Islands but 18-30 springs to mind there as well.

Possibly best to avoid mainland Spain due to frequent explosions taking place during high season, caused by Basques who want their own separate country and government.
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Anyone going to be in the day around the middle of november?
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ohh its such a perfect day

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Start off the day at barneys for a nice fry up and a gram of barney rubble. When the grey area opens at 12 go there for a quick grab and go on some grey mist crystals, and up to abraxas to smoke and chill out, then katsu for a nice bit of killer green, ending up in the greenhouse tolstraat in the evening, followed by an intense drinking session in the RLD
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DC wrote:..... I was planing to split 4 weeks in half with the Burning man festival in California in August this year until I had to visit the dentist. :roll: Flights are just a little too steep so it'll be 'potluck' somewhere around the Spain probably.
Still planing on going in August DC, would fucking suck if you were out of town for the first time in a million years just when I get in..?
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Dunno when and where exactly I'll be goin. But it wont be during July....unless I go a little more nuts than I intend to around me birthday. But totherwise, yeah...it'll probaly be August sometime. ..,...doh!:roll:
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Well fuckidifuckfuck, but shit happens... We'll be in the 'Dam on saturday august 12th and will be splittin' again sometime during sunday august 20th, would be awesome to catch u, but if not it probably will not be the last time I visit the 'Dam, save the odd chance the fucks somehow kill of the CS'....
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