2nd - 5th July 2007
Posted: Sat 7th Jul 2007 02:37 am
Copied from VDF.........................
I hate being home
Ok ... here goes... forgot my notebook so this is from memory, I'm sure I've forgotten a few things though and because my lady doesn't smoke I was the only one smoking joints to myself so my shopping list may not be as grand as some others
Day 1:
Homegrown Fantasy: Snow White 10E/1.3g, Dutch Ice - 20E/1g
The weather was lovely, sun was shining...
We arrvived at the hotel (see Cornerhouse review in Places To Stay section) about 6PM, totally shattered... rolled a much needed joint and we both took a "nap" ... ended up sleeping for about 4 hours
, then we just went downstairs to the hotel bar for a few drinks to end the evening. Had a few Amstel then decided to move onto Duval... with that came me being brave... decided to roll a pure joint (I always use tobacco at home), smoked about half of that then literally had to crawl from my seat to the bed where the room span for about 20 minutes before I drifted off it's all good fun ....
The Snow White was lovely, very smooth and stoney... made for a great 1st smoke. Nice fluffy buds.
I think the Ice was ok, I was quite drunk and i just poured it ontop of my pure joint so was totally messed up and unable to comment if it was that or the pure grass I'm not used to smoking that panned my head right in
Day 2:
Central: Edelweiss 25E/4g
Homegrown Fantasy: Silver Haze 10E/1g, Amazing Haze 20E/1.6g, Parrasi 10E/1g, some free baggie the american lassie gave me, no idea what it is, forgot to ask, was too busy being polite and thanking her for the gift.
Woke up about 11 with an absolute belter of a hangover from the night before. Dragged my sorry ass from the bed for a quick shower then up and out for a full english breakfast although it's my honest opinion that anyone serving this on the menu should really go get a fry up in england first before advertising it. Salad!? with an english brekkie!? Bizzare!!!
From there, we wandered down to Central as we were meant to meet axeman in there, wandered in to buy something, it was busy so we didn't stop ... went over to Hill Street Blues in the red light as it's normally pretty quiet early on for a wee smoke and some juice. Went back over to Central to see if it was any quieter 'cause it was close to time we were due to meet axeman and his mate but it was still packed... so sent a quick text to say get us in HSB, it's quiet... axeman and his mate showed up, quick chat and then my girl was quite cold so we went off to get a jacket before heading off to Haarlem, we said back in 10 minutes as we walked off to the hotel, it was a bit of a stoner 10 minutes though as we both ended up getting changed as it was pretty cold. Went back down and no axeman ... wondered if he'd maybe popped out for something, so I had a milkshake and another joint, sent a text to see where he was but nothing... so we waited a while longer then headed off (what happened to ya axe???). We had planned to go to Haarlem ourselves but by the time we'd got stoned and wandered a bit we were both too tired so ended up going back to hotel for a nap. Got up, went down to HGF for some more goodies, went for a massive T-Bone steak which was suuuuuuuperb! Then back to HGF for a few smokes and then off to the hotel to bed.
The Edelwiess was ok, not the best... was cheap though and tasted ok.
The silver haze was lovely, but it just seemed like a poor man's Amazing Haze.
Amazing Haze - FANTASTIC, absolutely amazing looking bud, dripping with crystals and the smell ... omfg it just about jumped out the bag, lemons, oranges... like a citrus fruit basket in a baggie!!! Tasted amazing, lovely high... my favourite smoke of the trip and I'm normally much more of an Indica man than a Sativa.
Parrisi - an ok bit of dark hash, vastly overpriced imo but it was the only dark hash on their list so rather than go trawling for the best, I just bought that. Tasted nice, that was about it ...
Free gift: Disgusting, I dunno wtf that was but it looked nice, smelled ok but tasted fuckin' awful ... I smoked a few puffs then put it in the bin.
Day 3:
Homegrown Fantasy: Amazing Haze 20E/1.6g
Grey Area: Grey Diesel 22E/2g, Nepalese Creme, 20E/2g
Another late start to the day, up and eating brekkie at about 1130... pretty much spent the day walking about, getting more of a feel for the city, I've pretty much sussed how to get about much more now (I forgot to print an ACD map so thought it would be fun to try and remember the directions from memory - it worked, I and the wife are both amazed, I can hardly remember my own name some days, priorities I guess...), we went away down Spui area for a wander by the canals... then wandered around Jordaan etc... armed with a pocket full of prerolls I made, we just cruised around, seeing what was what and where was where... managed to spend a whole afternoon doing that. Then out for some dinner and a few drinks and a few smokes before retiring early, we had to get up at 0700 to get ready to get to airport. Also made a wee trip to Homegrown Fantaseeds to pick up some seeds. The guy in there was a top bloke, very helpful ... I went with Caramella seeds on his recommendation. Here's hoping in a few months I should have some nice plants to harvest. We already have the hydro, and an excellent system for the airflow... so with a bit of luck
The stuff I got from Grey Area that day was v.nice... the Diesel made a nice daytime smoke and the nepal creme was nothing short of delicious!!
All in, I think I did reasonably well considering I had nobody to pass joints to and I'm not normally able to get kick ass weed where I am. Over a half ounce smoked in 3 days, all on my own... that's good going i reckon.
Yesterday was my birthday, and I got to spend it at schilpol waiting for my flight... I should have touched down on home soil at 1130 our time, ready for birthday drinks and we had the day all planned out, but that was not to be... didn't land 'til 2000 hours, raging, with a wasted birthday under my belt. 14.50E food voucher just didn't cut it quite frankly, that got me 2 pitchers of Heineken, when the Scot's flights get delayed, the Scot's get DRUNK... ended up spending a fortune. Ho hum.
That's me back at work now, nearly crying into my crisps as I write this because we had such a good time over there, shame about the ending right enough but that's life, eh?
Hope to be back in November for more of the same...
I hate being home
Ok ... here goes... forgot my notebook so this is from memory, I'm sure I've forgotten a few things though and because my lady doesn't smoke I was the only one smoking joints to myself so my shopping list may not be as grand as some others
Day 1:
Homegrown Fantasy: Snow White 10E/1.3g, Dutch Ice - 20E/1g
The weather was lovely, sun was shining...
We arrvived at the hotel (see Cornerhouse review in Places To Stay section) about 6PM, totally shattered... rolled a much needed joint and we both took a "nap" ... ended up sleeping for about 4 hours
, then we just went downstairs to the hotel bar for a few drinks to end the evening. Had a few Amstel then decided to move onto Duval... with that came me being brave... decided to roll a pure joint (I always use tobacco at home), smoked about half of that then literally had to crawl from my seat to the bed where the room span for about 20 minutes before I drifted off it's all good fun ....The Snow White was lovely, very smooth and stoney... made for a great 1st smoke. Nice fluffy buds.
I think the Ice was ok, I was quite drunk and i just poured it ontop of my pure joint so was totally messed up and unable to comment if it was that or the pure grass I'm not used to smoking that panned my head right in
Day 2:
Central: Edelweiss 25E/4g
Homegrown Fantasy: Silver Haze 10E/1g, Amazing Haze 20E/1.6g, Parrasi 10E/1g, some free baggie the american lassie gave me, no idea what it is, forgot to ask, was too busy being polite and thanking her for the gift.
Woke up about 11 with an absolute belter of a hangover from the night before. Dragged my sorry ass from the bed for a quick shower then up and out for a full english breakfast although it's my honest opinion that anyone serving this on the menu should really go get a fry up in england first before advertising it. Salad!? with an english brekkie!? Bizzare!!!
From there, we wandered down to Central as we were meant to meet axeman in there, wandered in to buy something, it was busy so we didn't stop ... went over to Hill Street Blues in the red light as it's normally pretty quiet early on for a wee smoke and some juice. Went back over to Central to see if it was any quieter 'cause it was close to time we were due to meet axeman and his mate but it was still packed... so sent a quick text to say get us in HSB, it's quiet... axeman and his mate showed up, quick chat and then my girl was quite cold so we went off to get a jacket before heading off to Haarlem, we said back in 10 minutes as we walked off to the hotel, it was a bit of a stoner 10 minutes though as we both ended up getting changed as it was pretty cold. Went back down and no axeman ... wondered if he'd maybe popped out for something, so I had a milkshake and another joint, sent a text to see where he was but nothing... so we waited a while longer then headed off (what happened to ya axe???
). We had planned to go to Haarlem ourselves but by the time we'd got stoned and wandered a bit we were both too tired so ended up going back to hotel for a nap. Got up, went down to HGF for some more goodies, went for a massive T-Bone steak which was suuuuuuuperb! Then back to HGF for a few smokes and then off to the hotel to bed.The Edelwiess was ok, not the best... was cheap though and tasted ok.
The silver haze was lovely, but it just seemed like a poor man's Amazing Haze.
Amazing Haze - FANTASTIC, absolutely amazing looking bud, dripping with crystals and the smell ... omfg
it just about jumped out the bag, lemons, oranges... like a citrus fruit basket in a baggie!!! Tasted amazing, lovely high... my favourite smoke of the trip and I'm normally much more of an Indica man than a Sativa.Parrisi - an ok bit of dark hash, vastly overpriced imo but it was the only dark hash on their list so rather than go trawling for the best, I just bought that. Tasted nice, that was about it ...
Free gift: Disgusting, I dunno wtf that was but it looked nice, smelled ok but tasted fuckin' awful ... I smoked a few puffs then put it in the bin.
Day 3:
Homegrown Fantasy: Amazing Haze 20E/1.6g
Grey Area: Grey Diesel 22E/2g, Nepalese Creme, 20E/2g
Another late start to the day, up and eating brekkie at about 1130... pretty much spent the day walking about, getting more of a feel for the city, I've pretty much sussed how to get about much more now (I forgot to print an ACD map so thought it would be fun to try and remember the directions from memory - it worked, I and the wife are both amazed, I can hardly remember my own name some days, priorities I guess...
), we went away down Spui area for a wander by the canals... then wandered around Jordaan etc... armed with a pocket full of prerolls I made, we just cruised around, seeing what was what and where was where... managed to spend a whole afternoon doing that. Then out for some dinner and a few drinks and a few smokes before retiring early, we had to get up at 0700 to get ready to get to airport. Also made a wee trip to Homegrown Fantaseeds to pick up some seeds. The guy in there was a top bloke, very helpful ... I went with Caramella seeds on his recommendation. Here's hoping in a few months I should have some nice plants to harvest. We already have the hydro, and an excellent system for the airflow... so with a bit of luck The stuff I got from Grey Area that day was v.nice... the Diesel made a nice daytime smoke and the nepal creme was nothing short of delicious!!
All in, I think I did reasonably well considering I had nobody to pass joints to and I'm not normally able to get kick ass weed where I am. Over a half ounce smoked in 3 days, all on my own... that's good going i reckon.
Yesterday was my birthday, and I got to spend it at schilpol waiting for my flight... I should have touched down on home soil at 1130 our time, ready for birthday drinks and we had the day all planned out, but that was not to be... didn't land 'til 2000 hours, raging, with a wasted birthday under my belt. 14.50E food voucher just didn't cut it quite frankly, that got me 2 pitchers of Heineken, when the Scot's flights get delayed, the Scot's get DRUNK... ended up spending a fortune. Ho hum.
That's me back at work now, nearly crying into my crisps as I write this because we had such a good time over there, shame about the ending right enough but that's life, eh?
Hope to be back in November for more of the same...
