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This is gonna be my report ( Double R ) on my 1st visit to the Amsterdam ! It will be updated with pics and better spelling and more info.

Always wanted to visit Amsterdam, but never got round to booking it ! After fiending up on this site and dam, i asked various friends to lets go Dam, they kept saying yes but letting me down, thus i had to go solo, i din't care who came i needed to go Dam !

I Booked up my ticket with BMi and booked the Hotel Canal d'Armada and proceeded to count the hours down !

Getting ready for Dam was easy, now to get to Dam !

I haven't been on holiday for over 14 years and was getting nervois and anxioux about my trip. Everything in Birmingham airport went as planed got on plan and flew to Dam.

The First day .part 1

Flying overhead the Nederlands looks loke a beautiful traquil place in the sea . Get through airport no biggie, ( fuck me Schipol is huge ). Being BMi baby i had to walk all the way to the train station in the airport.

right i arrived at 9:15am 22 wednesday, i've got 5 hours to kill before my hotel room is ready, all i want to do is ditch my overkill suitcase and wing it to a coffeeshop.

After reading two canucks report, i decide to store my bagage and head for the city. It was a bit overwhelming this travel business in another country, but everyone i met was polite nad helpful, I found it rather easy to get on with the culture.

Shove the suitcase in the storage ( 6euro for 8 hours ) , like a idiot forgetting maps, acd coffeshop map ,cigarettes and travel guide
and jackets are in the baggage storage, locker . (The thing with the lockers is once you shut your door it is locked, you can open it but once open you have to pay 6euro again to lock it !! )

So fuck it i think lets get to the hotel and smoke something then i can relax.

Find the train station below the airport and procede to wait for central station, thats when i realise most passengers have, ummm tickets, shit headback up get a ticket Day pass for 7:40e !

Now upon the train im a little taken aback by the different coutry and culture, the concrete builidings all look like they were designed =by a crazy dutchman, the sky was clean but on the way to Centraol Station amsterdam the place felt cold and lonely.

I felt lonely and did not know anyone or anything and felt kind of vunrable.

ANyways get to central station and thats when shit gets hectic, i dnt remember more than a handlefull of people getting on the train but getting off, there are hundreds !!

Whilst on the train i met a very nice british couple, they informed me how to get around, how tt get tickets nad where to go.

Must really thank these good hearted smaratins, they cheered me up no end and gave me valuabe info, which made my trip so much easier.

I get of at the central station in Amsterdam, walkdown the underground terminal and out into the heart of Amsterdam, Central station.

I remember just standing at the entrace to central station, with people jostling to get by me and all i can do is stare at the city, people, the buildings and the trams, shitloads of trams.

Then the smell hit me, dirt, food, people but funny no Marjuana !!

I get the all travel pass ( bus, tram) from the tourist info centre. I get a travel map and basically keepi scanning the map till i find my hotels Road, Kieersgracht, bollocks the roads about 5 miles long and has about 4 different drop off points. I grab the tram which i think is the right one, after about 10 mins of figuring out where the f i am, i see the sign which indicates my road, i press the tram bell and get off.

Great the clear sky has just turned grey, it begining to rain and ihave no fucking clue where the fuck i am or how to get to the hotel. + there were not more than a handful or people on the street. I think i have a idea where my hotel is procede to walk from Leidestreet to Utrechsterur.

On the walk my mood is pretty low, i am thinking why did i come bymyself, theres no coffeeshop in sight , its pissing with rain and im tired and i've nearly got ran over by 3 metal cycalists, even thought i read the document!

As i keep walking along Keirzergracht, admiring the old canals infused with modern buildings ,i stop at a canal intersection and just look around.

BINGO !!!! Tired, wet and disputing my own decision ot come, i see a sign which grabs my attention,

"Barneys Lounge"

My heart beats a little faster and a little smirj appears on my face, my feet pick up pace and i walk twards the shop as if i am being magantised. I get outside the shop, black sign abd doorway and look in, its a long bar and i see a guy at the counter must be the budtender, i hear some pretty underground hip hop being played, no one ever said Barneys lounge played undegroung hip hop!.

I look at the sign, look around then think time to start the journey.

Walk inside and i can smell the sweet thick stench of Maryjane, the sound of underground hip hop, my spirit is lifted slightly more. I looked at the counter i cant see no green, the guy at the counter smiles and i reply

"whats good smoke? " ( where did i learn broken ENGRISH !) the guy asks strong, lively, before he can finish, i've come out with
"strongest, give me the the strongest ."
budtender," g13 , Blue kush, amnesia." as soon as i heard G13, i tod him give me 1g.

"Holy shit did i just buy a gram of Maryjane Legally over a counter !" its fucking new to me !!!

Anyways i ask the guy is it alright to sit and build a spliff he says of course.

As i sit down, i realise SHIT i've got no fags, sheets or lighter !! I look aroud embarrssingly . I think shit i'll ask the budtender for the sheets and lighter but first to be polite i'll order a drink.

I get a Coke bottle and then ask for some sheets, the budtender grabs me some sheets and roach.

I then think bollocks i need a fag to contaminate my G-13 and being a funny bastard ( i have OCD when it comes to smoking) i only ever use Benson and Hedges Gold. I notice at the corner of my eye, a BnH box beng used by a guy opposite me, i politely ask, he gives me a wierd look then says"fag?" my bad cigarette mate, he gives me the box and tells me keep it, he has a whole carton !

Right i finally crumble a head of G-13 on the Barneys menu and realise ive left the peace underneath, the combination of mysmall brain and the fact i have not smoked for a month or two is making me nervous and as i go for the roach underneath the menu, i tip the whole spilff of the side of the table ! BOLLOCKS i feel like a tit.

FUCK ME, my 1st spilff and i drop it, and its the G13, i feel like slapping myself. The budtender and i meet gazes and just crack up ! LOL he grabs me another bud Free OC !

and says dnt spill this one, i start laughing and biuld the spliff superquick.

As i am building,me and the budtender strike up convo over where im from, his music, the shop and the herb.

Right now all this typing/talking has led to the 1st spliff nearly being sparked, keep in mind i stopped smoking for a month or two and im about to start smoking some killer G13 !!

I'm about to spark the spliff till i realise, thats is. fucking i have no lighter !!!

(FUCK ME Will I EVER SMOKE A SPLIFF !!! AERGGGGGGGGGGGGGHH )

As i am about to ask for a light, the budtender hands me a Barneys lighter and pack of sheets, he says a gift for coming to his shop !

Fucking WOW thats hospitality.

Anyhow already in a good mood, i spark the spliff, 1 st burn nothing, 2nd burn, eyes twitching/straining, 3 rd burn mouth is drying, 4th burn thats it the mind is fully cooked, im high, really high ! My mood fully swithcs to happiness !!!

Im smiling so hard its hurting, i begin to chat to the budtender, learn his name, Kuram ! I buy some Blue kush cheese, lovely smoke,I Get reall high, real quick, its a wierd feeling when you are sober and you can feel alll the effects of marjuana creeping up. When the high hits though its a pure good feeling high, no paranoi !

well anyways after chilling in the shop 2 hours i bid farewell to Kuram and Barneys.

As i wobble out of the shop and stop at the canal at the top, 3 things hit me,
1) I am fucking utterly completly stoned, cannot talk properly one word is rushing to the third
2) I walking like a crab/monkey hybrid

3) I AM FUCKING IN DAM smoking killer , with nothing but time and money to kill ! that feeling is just the best, up there iwth waking up to someone you love.

Just writing this first part , makes me feel like crying i am not in Dam.

But my god such happy lovely memories and i am planning to go back within 2 months, what a place my second home !

AMsterdam i love JU!!!

More to come im knackered will upload pics !

Great read can't wait for the rest.........it's cool to hear someones first account of Amsterdam.......brings it all back

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Nice write up! Looking forward to more.

Nice post.

nice write up my friend

Man you had me laughing pretty hard there. Wondering, was your hotel in the city or near the airport? I ask because we stored our bags at the lockers in Centraal Station and not the airport/train station lockers.

Cheers, and thanks for sharing!

nice write up....welcome to the club....i remember that crabbish walk and that feeling(i was lucky as i had a mate with me,so we just pinballed against each other trying to walk straight)

Superb write-up mate, I love it!!
Oh, and I have ballsed up soooo many 'first joints' because of over-eagerness to get high, so I can totaly relate

Looking forward to the rest.

TwoCanucks wrote: was your hotel in the city or near the airport ?

Hotel Canal d'Armada is in Keizersgracht.

echc1 wrote:nice write up....welcome to the club....i remember that crabbish walk and that feeling(i was lucky as i had a mate with me,so we just pinballed against each other trying to walk straight)

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....Lost - Amsterdam 'A stoned Perspective'.

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Still Day one, Part two

Right, so i am semi concious, ie fucking stoned. I've stepped out of Barneys. Now the mission is to find my hotel, the Hotel Armada Canal . My walk is like said at best a crab/monkey hybrid at worst some crazed fat man boblle woddle. Man is my mouth dry, it so dry i feel as though its sucking moisture from around or near my face.

With my mind baked, i just suddenly to walk in any direction it feels good. Funny how about 2 hours ago i was feeling so low and now, ive got a smile plastered on my face, i am so high and happy.

I must have walked 10 minutes and i stop to admire the view and thats when i spot my hotel, exactly like the pic on the internet ! what a stroke of luck, ive found my residence, this calls for a burn of some blue cheese. I find a bench and start to build a spliff of bluecheese.

I sit at a bench near my hotel and just take in the surroundings, the people moiving about, the bars with laid back people talking and drininking, the clanking and horns of the trams, the water and boats in the canal.

Its amazing, Amsterdam is a very nice relaxed place + they have some of the nicest green anywhere. As im contemplating my next move i look at the time and realise its near enough lunch time, i decide to head back to Shcipol to pick up my luggage and book in my hotel .

On the way back to central station, i make sure i sit down on the tram and scrutinize my surroundings on the way back. As get off in Central station i am once again taken aback, by the sheer volume of people and the number of trams.

I get onto the train to Schipol, well i hope it fucking goes there, i saw a logo of a plane and schipol on the message board, but fuk nows. Goodshit, the train did stop at Schipol . I Get off and head towards the storage department in Schipol. As i open my locker, i sudenly feel confident i could handle getting around in Dam, this just eased me even more into the Dam mood of laidback.

Right headback to the hotel from here. On the way back to central station i notice a very hot chick, i think fuk it, shes never going to see me again , so i strike up convo, turns out shes comes to dam 4 times a year to chill out !!! I get her name Naomi, god she was fit, i wish her well and get off at central station .

Luggage, why did i bring a suitcase this shit is annoying an tiring, but all in all its about 10 minutes travel on a tram to get to the hotel. Its a bout 2:25pm , I get there and am greeted by a old guy named Jerry.

He looks like one of those old drity porno directors, but i just smile and deal with the paperwork for the room ! Finally he gives my keys and shows me to my room.

I have to open 3 doors and climb one set of steep stairs just to get to my room !!! Finally i am outside my room. I take a deep breath as i turn the key to the room, im thinking please let this place be clean, have a very nice toilet anda good view !!!

Phew, door open, the place is immaculate, the bathroom spotless and the view of my garden is exactly what i wanted, i let out a breath of relief and just lie on the bed for 5 miutes to charge up. Although its been only half a day, i review the day, it once again cheers me up and makes me smile.

[img][img]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/P ... C00042.jpg[/img][/img] a view from my room window

I am in Dam, in my hotel room, got the rest of Dam to discover, got 2 nice herbs and im feeling good.

Right let the good times begin. I roll up a spliff of G13 , this shit is killer. I spark it and just stare at the mirror for a minute, damn this stuff kicks. It forces me to go use the toilet. Anyone notice how good a shit with a spliff is !! LOL afterwards i shower up, get dressed and get my ACD coffeshop map out !!!!


there are only 2 shops i really want to visit on this trip and both because of there potent strains. one is Katsu known for its black widow and the second BAsjoes for the Terminator.

I decide i must go to Katsu's to get the Blackwidow and HAze silver pearl and Basjoes to get the Terminator !!

Its 3:30 im smoking a blues head as i am waiting for the tram to central staiton. Word of advice never smoke a head when trying to calculate anything. I must have walked about 2 hours and caught 3 trams to find Katsu, but when i finally find the ALbert cup markets its 5:30. and the sun is shining .

I see Katsu and just charge for the place. Its looks very compact inside but the smeells i am smelling sugggest this place might kick !! Get inside and see the bud counter head over take a seat, there alot of Uk people in here !!!

I see the budtender and a few of you were right she is gorgeuos and her smile is uplifting !! She asks what i woul like i ask here for BLackwidow, 20e a 2g and some Haze silver pearl.

I have a convo with the barlady and drink some Pineapple, mango loozas. I spark my Blackwidow spliff, i ve travelled over 600 miles to smoke on a spliff of this stuff, it better be good. It taste very chemically but man after a few tokes it really sets your head on a mud. I tell the barlady thanks for her hospitality and leave while burning my head, i walk with the spliff to my stop.

On the way i realise mouth is stone dry,my legs are now trying to replicate a jelly and fucking hell i am stoned !!

By now i am starving i think best thing i can do is find somewhere to eat and grab another drink. Shit i have walked alot ( i dnt walk further than the toilet or car where i live in the uk ), i amdehydrating with the killer herb. I catch the wrong tram but luckily i spot a Mcd's i get off and start walking towards the mCd's when i notice a supermarket.

Great spot, i do shopping which consists of muchies and about 14 litres of drinks. I grab my Mcd's and head to my hotel room. I eat and shower up again ( keep hydrated ).

Its about 8ish in the evening, The smoker in me has come alive,i sit at the desk ad roll up a spliff of each thing i have. Man i really am loving his place ! i m getting in the Amsterdam way of things !

I start with the Haze silver pearl, really nice high but hold on im still able to function, amazing, i go about organizing my shit and sorting my stuff out while burning this spliff, i realise its secret, its like te red bull of drugs, good shit !!!! now i can get stoned on the blue cheese .

AS i sit here the first night, so relaxed and chilled, i review the last few years of my life and where it went , the good times, the bad times, the depressing times, all of it and i realise, wow i really for the 1st time in a long time and relaxed and happy.

Over in the UK i would get paranoid or anxiety attacks when burning 1 spliff, it was obvious to me that it was me that i was wound up and needed a break, all that stresss and tension i had was affecting my smoking, this realisation just sends me towards enjoying this short break !!

Man did i tell you i was high ? ?

While i was smoking my G13 spliff in my room i needed a drink, so i opened the fridge door holding the spliff. I pull out a redbull can, shut the fridge door.

What happens next makes me think " how fucking high am i ?"

I put the red bull can to my mouth and try to toke it , WTF !!! wheres my spliff, where the fuck is my spliff !
i sort of jump thinking somethings gonna catch fire, then i realise i put it in the fridge ! d'OH !!i get the spliff out and then realise i need the drink tooo !!! LOL

Later on i have 5 lighters lined up, i continue smoking, my 4th spliff in a row at the hotel, then i go to get a light , where have all five gone, SHIT, a full frantic search and all 5 have vanished. I am slighlty bemused and vexed !!i sit down to calm down, i grab the tv remote, where were the lighters ? correct under the remote !

The best one was later on that night, i was so stoned i forgot i had the spliff in my mouth !!! LOL

Heres a few pics relating to the first night in Dam !!!8

I fucking love Amsterdam , the country, the people, the green, the food, the whole experience. I smoked a few more spliffs and decide at 10 to go back to Barneys for a smoke !! and from there try to find the infamous Red light district !

I have a lovely lovely mango milkshake then armed with valuable info i head off to find the red light ditstrict. I find red light district, when i find it all i can say is

"fuk me, this place is unbeleivable, did i tell you i fucking love amsterdam"

REPORT goes blank/secret till the second day starts, here, all i will say is the green is good but the pink is much much better LOL ROFL. My god some of the women are supermodel fit. god damn i dnt think i'l ever get rld images out ofmy head. Red light district, its like what heaven would be like in heaven i guess.

When i get to my hotel about 3-4am in the morning of 23rd wednesday, let say my vision was as far as about 1 metre at times and i am exhuasted/wasted, the drinks at the RLD were hard, my legs ache, my lungs ache, my penis slightly aches LOL , I sort of sprawl / sit on the bench outside my hotel near the canal, get some fresh air, i way to wasted to attempt building a spliff instead i pull out a cigaerette light it and attempt to get to my hotel room quitely.

I said attempted, because the 1st door i opend i slammed hard shut, i sort of said sorry to myself and made hand gestures at the door. Then i somehow got upstairs and sort of just wobbled outside of my room for 5 minutes opened my room door and fell straight over my suitcase onto the floor. I LOL then sort of got up and tryed to build a spliff, the only thingi remember after that is going for a piss and collapssing on the bed............... and waking up with a terrable headache.

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pictures of Day 1

The 1st thing i smoked in Amsterdam, from Barneys Lounge, the strong ang beautiful smoke that is G13 x Haze ! oh man i miss DAM !!

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The potent smoke G13 !



I love the taste and smoke of Blue kush x cheese from Barneys Lounge









um looks delicious !

The sensational and crazy looking black widow look at those buds !

This is the deadly Katsu version !!





You just want to rip open the bag to look and smeel it !





Below the very special Haze Silver Pearl !!!!!!!





Fruity !!!



loook at those crystals !



more to come !!

Guys and Girls thanks for the comments on my review, i would just like to thank everyone on here for there advice and help, it not only helped me it made my trip a great one, one i will remember 20 years down the line!

Thanks to everyone on ACD, especially those who contribute, your efforts help many like minded people like myself enjoy Dam properly. heres to all the great people on here, one day we shall meet in Dam and celbrate! e

the happy hacker wrote:Great read can't wait for the rest.........it's cool to hear someones first account of Amsterdam.......brings it all back

Dude the amount of times you've been you probably thinking, amateur !! LOL

i loved my 1st time in dam bymyself i cannot wait to get back, i have to go within a month or 2 !!! Definatly fallen in love with Amsterdam

TwoCanucks wrote:Man you had me laughing pretty hard there. Wondering, was your hotel in the city or near the airport? I ask because we stored our bags at the lockers in Centraal Station and not the airport/train station lockers.

Cheers, and thanks for sharing!

Cheers bud, it was your report that led me to do one myself !!

My hotel was in the city , near Keizergracht, damn they had storage at the cetral Station !!! ARrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i went on that crazy Schipol mission for luggage !! Seriously i was glad i dumped the luggage at the start as it would have worn me down , travelling with that

A+++ report, dude. It was a fantastic read. The magical appearance of barneys and the saint budtender, and all the hilarious things that happened!

Lovin the report!

Your hotel is like 2 mins from Barneys lounge and do you know they have lockers at the train station?

G13 looking as good as this time last year! Fuckin yummy

Great report and currently LMAO8)


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