TRIP REPORT! 10/30 - 11/6/07

[smoker_moby]

Hi shady sorry its not you that coming on the crawl so many of us now im getting confused!!!

[Bhang Buddie]

This is excellent 'blow' by 'blow' reporting HasjDreamer, now we just need the 'live' photo's of that hasj we're all dreaming of Bom Shiva

[Paco]

Have heard mixed reviews,but Popeyes is on my list...

[smitt052]

The greenhouse is the massive one with the steakhouse on the top, which wasn't great to be honest think i had the thinnest steak ive ever had in there but never tried the coffeeshop.

Are you thinking of The Grasshopper?

[smoker_moby]

Yeah thats the one i meant!Not having a good day today!

Lol

[HasjDreamer]

DAY 2, OCTOBER 31, 2007 (HALLOWEEN!)
Wow, what a great feeling waking up in Amsterdam! We were up by 7 am or so and RARING to go. We stopped around the corner from our apartment to BETTY BOOP...didn't pick up any green since we still had plenty but we WERE in desperate need of a coffee & fresh oj (oj, of course, squeezed by hand on the spot). The budtender and his buddy (local Dutch) busted my chops a bit when I asked what music was playing "it's our own, we make it in our spare time"...now, they kept this up for a good 10 minutes, claiming that they'd never sell it etc. I figured this was a bit of a "tourist" test. Once they ended their full-of-shit performance I started busting the tenders balls and we've started our mornings there since with a good relationship. Hell, he even had me "take over the bar while I take a piss"...dang, dream come true : me RUNNING A COFFEESHOP if not for only 5 minutes with no customers coming in!

Now the wife and I are off the find the Albert Cuypstraat Market. Of course we DIDN'T take a map with us since I've been doing absolutely nothing but researching amsterdam for the past 2 months I thought I had its location down PAT! So off we go down the dam towards the museums, passing Bushdoctor, Little and Mellow Yellow. In need of a smoke, we stop by at THE MELLOW SH@DY, I mean THE MELLOW YELLOW . Ya know, it looked DIFFERENT from our only shop visit 10 or 11 years ago (was the upstairs ALWAYS there? Wasn't there a mirror somewhere?) so we grabbed soda's since our walk left us a wee bit sweaty! Our purchase...
ORANGE HAZE (14 e/g), CHEESE (11/g) & HONEY HASH (12/g). The Haze REALLY was SENSATIONAL! That soapy starter taste followed by a strong orangy citrus finish! We rolled a spliff of honey and although it tasted GREAT (a tad dry but oils showed their faces when broken up) but we were really SO stoned off the OH it was hard to tell how good it was!
So NOW wer're completely lit and a bit hungry...RECOMMENDATION: there's a little deli/grocery store a couple of doors down from the Little that will fresh slice the deli meat and make these KILLER small broodjes on fresh bread with arugula, cukes, butter/mayo/curry (whichever), some nice hams/salami's. Now this is a REAL local Dutch joint and we are greeted in Dutch. Of course, all of my lame-ass practice at learning a few Dutch words are COMPLETELY gone so we're just "hello, good morning, how are you" and she is absolutely sweet as can be! Now she's a sturdy, older, responsible store owner and we're VERY high American's tyring to be polite and she treated us like gold - showing us each meat, what it was, how it tasted, if it was cooked or smoked - ALL while locals waiting patiently in line with their few items in hand. Like I said, EVERYBODY has been good-as-gold with us this trip!

We head out toward where I THINK the Pijp is, for about 45 minutes to an hour until we wind up RIGHT where we started near the Little & Mellow! Fuck it, we say, we'll find it another time...let's head back towards the centrum. Ok, we now head back to where we THINK the centrum is (see, we're pretty cocky - everyone's so nice and some are mistaking us FOR locals - and we're, like, "it's THIS way, of course!") at a quick pace and suddenly NOTHING looks familiar BUT we find this side street with all clothing stalls. Low & behold it's the Albert Cuypstraat Mkt! A HA! We wander through and peak around for our goal (other than THE freshest fish I've ever seen):
KATSU
I've seen their menu and it was a toss up between the Citral Afghan & the Sulu hasj. All systems go Mr Sulu, we're OFF! Black & Afghanni-like, it offers us up a NICE bake while we sip on our umpteenth Hot Chocomel!

So after what felt like a 12 hour walk BACK to the Centrum (this time asking directions while we were STILL heading in the wrong direction!) we stopped by what would be our last purchase of the night:
PRIX D'AMI
Never seemed to notice this coffeeshop before but we've heard SUCH good things about the Fisherman's Friend that I HAD to stop in. Of course, I can't for the life of me remember what I came in for at the time so it was, like, stumble stumble "ahh, I'll take some MOONSHINE ICOLATOR (a mere 15 e/g)". The tender looks like he's no older than 17 and JUST before we go to bolt back to the room I'm like "SHIT, GIVE ME A GRAM OF FISHERMAN'S!". At 7.5 e/g he seemed surprised that it had such a good reputation when I mentioned it and we were off to the room.

Ok, the HONEY HASH from MY WAS excellent - a nice oily taste and strong-ass 'high'. The Sulu was good but more of a novelty hash than something I'd buy all the time. I mean it was GOOD it just didn't seem worth the extra price. All the same, it DID fufill a HISTORICAL HASJ destiny! We went off to POPEYE'S to hang with Johnny & use the internet (remember, no purchase except Chocomels) and we were showing him the Bushdoctor review of Alladdin's Chocolate...he hadn't seen it yet! We smoked the MOONSHINE ICE from Prix and could BARELY walk down the street! BLASTED.

After a brief walk around the red light we headed back to the apartment and smoked the FISHERMAN'S...best bang-for-the-buck so far! QUITE a good stone at 7.5 e/g!

Thanks again for all the good words...Bhang Buddie, I DO have some pics ready to go, I just gotta find a way to post (I'll read through the threads).

TALK TO Y'ALL SOON!

[HasjDreamer]

DAY 2, OCTOBER 31, 2007 (HALLOWEEN!)
Wow, what a great feeling waking up in Amsterdam! We were up by 7 am or so and RARING to go. We stopped around the corner from our apartment to BETTY BOOP...didn't pick up any green since we still had plenty but we WERE in desperate need of a coffee & fresh oj (oj, of course, squeezed by hand on the spot). The budtender and his buddy (local Dutch) busted my chops a bit when I asked what music was playing "it's our own, we make it in our spare time"...now, they kept this up for a good 10 minutes, claiming that they'd never sell it etc. I figured this was a bit of a "tourist" test. Once they ended their full-of-shit performance I started busting the tenders balls and we've started our mornings there since with a good relationship. Hell, he even had me "take over the bar while I take a piss"...dang, dream come true : me RUNNING A COFFEESHOP if not for only 5 minutes with no customers coming in!

Now the wife and I are off the find the Albert Cuypstraat Market. Of course we DIDN'T take a map with us since I've been doing absolutely nothing but researching amsterdam for the past 2 months I thought I had its location down PAT! So off we go down the dam towards the museums, passing Bushdoctor, Little and Mellow Yellow. In need of a smoke, we stop by at THE MELLOW SH@DY, I mean THE MELLOW YELLOW . Ya know, it looked DIFFERENT from our only shop visit 10 or 11 years ago (was the upstairs ALWAYS there? Wasn't there a mirror somewhere?) so we grabbed soda's since our walk left us a wee bit sweaty! Our purchase...
ORANGE HAZE (14 e/g), CHEESE (11/g) & HONEY HASH (12/g). The Haze REALLY was SENSATIONAL! That soapy starter taste followed by a strong orangy citrus finish! We rolled a spliff of honey and although it tasted GREAT (a tad dry but oils showed their faces when broken up) but we were really SO stoned off the OH it was hard to tell how good it was!
So NOW wer're completely lit and a bit hungry...RECOMMENDATION: there's a little deli/grocery store a couple of doors down from the Little that will fresh slice the deli meat and make these KILLER small broodjes on fresh bread with arugula, cukes, butter/mayo/curry (whichever), some nice hams/salami's. Now this is a REAL local Dutch joint and we are greeted in Dutch. Of course, all of my lame-ass practice at learning a few Dutch words are COMPLETELY gone so we're just "hello, good morning, how are you" and she is absolutely sweet as can be! Now she's a sturdy, older, responsible store owner and we're VERY high American's tyring to be polite and she treated us like gold - showing us each meat, what it was, how it tasted, if it was cooked or smoked - ALL while locals waiting patiently in line with their few items in hand. Like I said, EVERYBODY has been good-as-gold with us this trip!

We head out toward where I THINK the Pijp is, for about 45 minutes to an hour until we wind up RIGHT where we started near the Little & Mellow! Fuck it, we say, we'll find it another time...let's head back towards the centrum. Ok, we now head back to where we THINK the centrum is (see, we're pretty cocky - everyone's so nice and some are mistaking us FOR locals - and we're, like, "it's THIS way, of course!") at a quick pace and suddenly NOTHING looks familiar BUT we find this side street with all clothing stalls. Low & behold it's the Albert Cuypstraat Mkt! A HA! We wander through and peak around for our goal (other than THE freshest fish I've ever seen):
KATSU
I've seen their menu and it was a toss up between the Citral Afghan & the Sulu hasj. All systems go Mr Sulu, we're OFF! Black & Afghanni-like, it offers us up a NICE bake while we sip on our umpteenth Hot Chocomel!

So after what felt like a 12 hour walk BACK to the Centrum (this time asking directions while we were STILL heading in the wrong direction!) we stopped by what would be our last purchase of the night:
PRIX D'AMI
Never seemed to notice this coffeeshop before but we've heard SUCH good things about the Fisherman's Friend that I HAD to stop in. Of course, I can't for the life of me remember what I came in for at the time so it was, like, stumble stumble "ahh, I'll take some MOONSHINE ICOLATOR (a mere 15 e/g)". The tender looks like he's no older than 17 and JUST before we go to bolt back to the room I'm like "SHIT, GIVE ME A GRAM OF FISHERMAN'S!". At 7.5 e/g he seemed surprised that it had such a good reputation when I mentioned it and we were off to the room.

Ok, the HONEY HASH from MY WAS excellent - a nice oily taste and strong-ass 'high'. The Sulu was good but more of a novelty hash than something I'd buy all the time. I mean it was GOOD it just didn't seem worth the extra price. All the same, it DID fufill a HISTORICAL HASJ destiny! We went off to POPEYE'S to hang with Johnny & use the internet (remember, no purchase except Chocomels) and we were showing him the Bushdoctor review of Alladdin's Chocolate...he hadn't seen it yet! We smoked the MOONSHINE ICE from Prix and could BARELY walk down the street! BLASTED.

After a brief walk around the red light we headed back to the apartment and smoked the FISHERMAN'S...best bang-for-the-buck so far! QUITE a good stone at 7.5 e/g!

Thanks again for all the good words...Bhang Buddie, I DO have some pics ready to go, I just gotta find a way to post (I'll read through the threads).

TALK TO Y'ALL SOON!

[sh@dy]

sounds so great......i am so jealous

[philly-Rich]

Nice report,again.I guess we will blame the double posting on an unfamiliar computer.lol Amsterdam is a city that is easy to get lost in thats for sure.Find some great places that way though.20 days,tick,tick,tick,.

[LeviInAtl]

It was so good we had to read it twice Never know what youll find getting lost, but if you want to limit that get some tram passes. its another experience in itself sometimes.

[geoffk]

Compass, my friend brought one on our first trip to the Dam, essential.

[sh@dy]

Compass, my friend brought one on our first trip to the Dam, essential.

trust me, there is no way things like a compass or a map can help you when lost in amsterdam, just a story from our last trip:

After our shopping tour with the girls and visiting the shops on my list I finally wanted to go to Mellow Yellow. I was sure that I knew the way, since it is my beloved one and I NEVER EVER got lost in ANY city on THIS FUCKING PLANET. trust me, NEVER!
we had a map and went straight to mellow yellow.....thats what we thought. we wandered around the vijzelgracht (where MY is on) for around an hour....and I wasnt even stoned. that made me realise, that in Amsterdam I found my master when it comes to my sense of direction and I have been in many big confusing cities all around europe
but I dont think thats too embarassing, most locals we asked couldnt explain us the way or had ever heard of MY....I was a bit relieved when I realised that

@ HasjDreamer:
Is the Aladins Chocolate really that great in taste? I want to find some hash I can smoke with my girl, because we are both no hash-lovers, because most of them taste like...well, shit
how long are you gonna stay in ams?

[geoffk]

I've found every shop the first time with a compass, but never with just a map. I like to think I have a good sense of direction, I'm a land surveyor, but I'll admit navagating in the city is much, much harder than in the mountains. Remember GPS is cheating.

[HasjDreamer]

Hey Sh@dy, the Alladin's chocolate tasted like choco the way a good cuban cigar can taste like choco - but it STILL tastes like hash! It's certainly worth a try...oh yeah, we'll be here until next Tuesday, November 6.

Sorry for the double post - we had JUST finished a 1/3 gram of Bushdoctor Jelly when I started writing the post! Madonna Mia, the room was spinning like an amusement park ride!

Stopped by the room for a qucik JUNGLY CREAM joint...more to come

[islandgurl]

I'm really glad you loved the Orange Haze, hasjdreamer as it's on my list of one's to try and now I've added the Honey Hash and the Moonshine Ice o lator lol

Have you tried Trainwreck yet??? That's also on my list.