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This'll be my third trip in the last 12 months, and although I've been planning and reading up for a while, I would love to know what else I should be doing! Likewise there are some things that I know are excellent from experience, and others I know to try, but my ignorance, I'm sure, hugely exceeds my knowledge, so any tips will be warmly welcomed. My rough plans are to do it more fully this time, as my previous trips have been under a week, and definitely to get to all the best shops, along with soaking up a bit of culture along the way. Apart from quality product, atmosphere is important (not a gigantic fan of terrible eurohouse being played at 11), and I do like buying half grams so I can try more of a single menu. I guess my ideal shop would be voyagers' weed, bushdoctor's hash, and a soundtrack of 60s folk, so anywhere that fits that description, let me know

Coffeeshops
Voyagers - repeatedly, as both the train in and my morning tram takes me too close to not
Paradox
Grey Area
420 Café
Utopia - back in spring there was a bit of a funky plumbing smell and I saw a friend sitting outside HGF so I didn't stay long, particularly curious about what's consistently good here
Solo - had good hash if commercially minded service at the other stix, and if I'm not wrong this is connected or was, but either way I hear good things and haven't been here before
Bushdoctor - never tried the weed, but have always enjoyed the hash and friendly Italian budtenders
Mr. K - never got to sanementereng so was pretty happy when I heard about this reopening
La Tertulia - for the atmos
Dutch Flowers - love singel
Het Ballonnetje
Dampkring
(was also planning on katsu and club media but have heard discouraging things)

I've heard good things about Betty Boop, but on my last trip I remember the budtender being phenomenally unjam not to us but to the 10 or so people who came in looking to just buy a coffee and smoke their own outside on tables. We were the only ones there and he easily turned away 50E of business. I'll probably give it another shot if the hash is worth it.

Food
Burger Bar
Wok to Walk
De Klos
Loetje


Fuck, I can hardly wait.

Also I forgot to add that I'd like to find somewhere I can smoke a spliff while watching Arsenal-Napoli, and it'd be nice to know of good smoking friendly bars (already plan on making it to Nes - do they have a tv?). I'm also planning on taking menu photos, so I hope I can get a few of those too.

in nes no more smoking only outside or pure joints or vaporize inside
and they got tvs

I'll be in town from the afternoon of the 5th-6th Oct. (5th visit this year) I love Betty Boop, it holds a certain amount of sentimental appeal for myself, my wife and a couple of my friends. (it was the 1st CS we ever visited around 13 years ago and its been our go to place ever since). We love the atmosphere in there, always been made to feel so welcome. I can buy 1/2 grams, smoke weed from elsewhere (usually grey area/ 1e hulp or amnesia) sit and chat to the bud tender for hours and never made to feel like I've overstayed my welcome.
Maybe I'll see you in there over the weekend. (We'll be driving to Amsterdam this time around, fancied a road trip as its been a long time since the last one and we're not getting any younger!)

gapie wrote:in nes no more smoking only outside or pure joints or vaporize inside
and they got tvs

Ah that sucks, oh well, I might give it a miss then, did hear they had been fined.

markymark wrote:I'll be in town from the afternoon of the 5th-6th Oct. (5th visit this year) I love Betty Boop, it holds a certain amount of sentimental appeal for myself, my wife and a couple of my friends. (it was the 1st CS we ever visited around 13 years ago and its been our go to place ever since). We love the atmosphere in there, always been made to feel so welcome. I can buy 1/2 grams, smoke weed from elsewhere (usually grey area/ 1e hulp or amnesia) sit and chat to the bud tender for hours and never made to feel like I've overstayed my welcome.
Maybe I'll see you in there over the weekend. (We'll be driving to Amsterdam this time around, fancied a road trip as its been a long time since the last one and we're not getting any younger!)

Ah cool stuff - sounds like you're a regular, don't know if two youngish non-regulars would get the same treatment. I'll be around though - my most concrete plan is that I'll be in voyagers for 4.20 on the 30th, as long as I can persuade my travel companion to not bugger off to get hash immediately on arrival - so I'd definitely be up for meeting up with interesting people at some point. I'm driving back with family, should be interesting...

Hoops McCann wrote: ...Fuck, I can hardly wait.

Man I'm feelin with ya, leaving to the dam in 6 days and getting crazy about it.

ShakeTheBud wrote:

Hoops McCann wrote: ...Fuck, I can hardly wait.

Man I'm feelin with ya, leaving to the dam in 6 days and getting crazy about it.

I'll check the weed on your behalf, make sure it's safe etc. Public spirited, I am. Three sleeps

Heading your way tomorrow Hoops. If you want to hook up for a toke in the next few days shoot me a PM!