DAY 1
Voyagers - Went in to start my trip as I always do, with some super bio lemon haze. Ah. They don't have any. WHAT?? Well that's fine, I love a bit of kosher kush so I get two grams at €15/g. Didn't smoke it till the evening because I wanted to start with a sativa but when I did... Woooaaaah. Absolute knockout. Really. Best kosher I've ever had for sure and a certain contender for the strongest weed I've ever had in dam. Or most places for that matter. Smell and taste were fantastic as you'd expect and it was veeeerrry sticky to the touch but not enough so to be annoying.
Dampkring 2 - Voyagers was a buy n fly because my mate really wanted to sit in Barney's Uptown for the first smoke and get his favourite strain. We walked past Dampkring 2 and I realised it'd be nice to get some hash to start things off (instead of the planned SBLH) so we dropped in and I got a gram of lovely jasmine at €11/g I think. The budtender was a standoffish asshole as usual and shouted at my mate who took her phone out while rearranging her pockets, so we left. Shame because I do sometimes like to chill upstairs. And the hash was a lovely maroc. Not soft but not too hard, lovely strong spicy hash flavour with thick smoke and leaning on the heavier side of a sativa high.
Barney's Coffeeshop - I didn't actually go in because I wanted to run down to get my sativa elsewhere but my friend got a beautiful two gram nug of tangerine dream for €15/g. Lovely smoke as always but he unfortunately lost it after only two joints!!
Amnesia - While they were in Barney's, I popped down here to quickly see what the acapulco gold was saying. It's one of those strains that never fails for me and I get it every trip. Another €15/g strain that I think is totally worth the price. Beautiful long sativa buds with that almost minty smell as an accompaniment. Such a great strain to start the day and trip with. I also must mention that as always, the budtender was nothing but helpful and actually a delight to buy from. He seemed to remember me and appreciated my return. So that put a smile on my face.
La Grotte - All three Barney's were rammed so when I rejoined my friends we popped in here because it was relatively empty. We all had our first joints and a mint tea each. Lovely setting, lovely staff, lovely tea, lovely first smoke. Great place.
Greenhouse Lounge - We wanted to pop in here to check out the hashes but it was packed with rude Russian cunts in sleeveless puffer jackets and the budtenders were being bellends too so we left very quickly. What a surprise
Dampkring - After checking into our hostel and having some more smokes, we had dinner in a great Italian place at the bottom of Spuistraat before heading over here. This has always been a hash place for me. The weed is great but the hash is really top top top. So I got a gram of the sensabille for €15 because it's never let me down. And it didn't. Best hash of the trip. Just perfect texture, taste, smell, stone, everything. Bought another two grams to send home after one joint of this stuff. Male budtender was great but female bartender was slightly pushy, but it's okay we were gonna get drinks anyway. My friends got a gram of nepalese temple balls for €16/g and nepalese pollen for €13. I'm not a massive fan of nepalese in general because of the taste but the stone is always a surefire for me. I actually much preferred the pollen to the temple balls. Both were very pliable and had that lovely body stone but the pollen just tasted more maroc-y and that's good for me. Not really worth the price though, and the temple balls were definitely not worth €16. No waaaaay...
Kadinsky - We cut across to this place but to be honest weren't all that impressed with anything we looked at. Shame because I'm usually a sucker for their hash but it seemed we could do (and had already done) better we moved on without a buy.
Green Place - After having a canal-side stroll and smoke, we hit Cotton Club jazz bar in Nieuwmarkt which was nice and just what we were feeling. After this we decided to make one last late night purchase at GP before heading back home to finish some weeds. I gotta say, I'm really conflicted with this place. The atmosphere is pretty poor, not a huge fan of the decor and usually the people hanging out there are on the slightly obnoxious side. Needless to say, the budtenders were absolute dickheads. Really. Very very rude, pushy and all round bastards. That Asian cunt tried hard to hurry us but I refused and got another to begrudgingly do it. On the other hand, the twizzla at €13/g was looking great as always so I got a three grams (two to send home). Always a lovely smoke and always fantastic value for money. Really good batch too, very bubbly for something like this. We looked at some shoreline, OG lemon and jack herer too. The first smelt great but only had shitty little popcorn buds left, the second didn't seem like anything worth getting and by the time we got to the jack the BT's were absolutely steaming so we decided to split.
Finished the night with a crowded RLD walk and a smoke/huuugely overpriced pint at a little bar on Warmoestraat just by Wijde Kerksteeg. We smoked some more in our prison-like hostel room - it's cheap for a reason and it's in an awesomely convenient and pretty part of centrum so no complaints here!! As I said, that kosher finished me. Total and utter blitzkrieg! Boom!
More tomorrow...