DAY 4
DONUT DAY
I wake at 8.30 again and head to
Rookies for my morning smoke. I get an espresso and pick up another gram of Lemon Berry for Mrs HTN before heading outside to enjoy the fine morning. I still have the Donut I got from het Gelderse last night so I spark it up and chill for a bit. It's a decent start to the day but a Donut at €40 is never gonna be the greatest, it's fine for breakfast for sure!
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I head back and pick up the wife and start the day proper. We head up Reguliersgracht and this morning decide to call in
Hashtag. This is a totally new one on me, I've never been in any of it's previous incarnations either. Friendly female tender showed us a few and Mrs HTN is siding towards the
Sour Apple. I take an espresso and the lovely tender furnishes Mrs HTN with a cup of hot water and some milk so that she can use her own teabags. A young lady enters with a very friendly little dog called Chico who ends up sat on a barstool at the counter with his owner. We stay here for a couple of drinks before moving on.
We walk up through Rembrandtplein and Mrs HTN needs a wee. We pop in Old Church but their toilet is out of order. Quick round the corner and we find somewhere before she wanders aimlessly round the flower market for a bit. I take random photos.
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As it was closed the other day we try Tertulia again. It's open today but it's packed! I've never seen it so busy, every outside table is taken and there's a few inside with more coming in now. What's going on? I'm pleased they are so busy but we have to move on.
Just around the corner is
Johnny and they have old favourite
Blue Dream on the menu. I get 1.5g and will later completely forget about even being here. We wander round the 9 streets for a while - we are always taken by the novelty sock shop. Getting hungry after no breakfast to speak of, we pop into a bar - Cafe de Pels. It's a nice brown bar style place, we order drinks and Mrs HTN has a croissant with jam and I plump for lobster bitterballen. I've never had bitterballen, really enjoyed them. Whilst here we book ourselves onto the Smokeboat for this afternoon - it's time to do some shopping. Onwards.
This is where things start getting wibbly.
I know we were in Sativa at one point because I have a menu shot and I remember being a bit non-plussed with their Zkittlez. I know we rocked up at Suzies about half an hour before the boat. Grabbed a couple of drinks and I started skinning up, emptying my pockets and filling my joint tubes simultaneously. I know we had some
Mega Z Dark from
Green Place because I have photos to prove it.
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I rolled a joint for my last joint tube only to find there was already one in there. A big fat glass tipped one too. It took me ages to work out where it came from - it was the Blue Dream from Johnny.
We got on the boat opposite Basjoe. Bag of beers and fantas, a load of spliffs. Sorted. We had a very enjoyable cruise getting high on the water, acceptable reggae on the airwaves. Top stuff.
After the boat ride we called in
Bagheera for some
Kandy Cane at €10 and then just round the corner onto Rusland for
Juicy Fruit from
The Hit at €14. Then down to
Green Place and got a jar of
Melon Nishi for like €122 or something - fuck it, it's my honeymoon. At some point I took the Mrs through Oudmanshuisport but it was pretty busy. Then I went to
Family First and got some
Zang Banger at €33. That's probably enough to be going on with so we head back to the hotel to try and roll this donut.
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So I try and roll this donut. I use approx 2g of the Melon Nishi and the .5 of rosin. I've brought some parchment paper from home but the stuff is still a bitch to work with. I really struggle getting it off my tool and into the joint. We get there in the end but it's not exactly textbook. Less of a rosin sausage and more a couple of rosin globs with the remnants wiped on the paper. It's pretty warm and I don't think that helped, I'm also far too stupid to bother using the fridge in the room.
This is where things start getting really wibbly.
I can't remember where we smoked the "donut". What I do remember is Mrs HTN telling me she doesn't like these big joints with glass tips, "They're too fumigating" she says. And so it's down to me, a mans gotta do and all that!
The joint makes me very, very stoned. It smokes just fine despite my misgivings and is tasty as fuck.
We go for food. Somewhere. I think I had a burger. We shared nachos to start, I remember that. Then Mrs HTN begins to flag. We agree that she'll go for a little disco nap and I'll come back for her presently.
I head back up into town. I know I got another 2g of
Gelonade from
Drews. Fucking delicious this stuff. I also popped in het Gelderse and got a t-shirt. He had to go down a little hatch into the cellar to get it.
Eventually I head back and pick up Mrs HTN. She's knackered so we decide to stay local. We head back to
Carmona for a little chill. I grab bags of
Trufflez,
Tropicana Cookies and
Warheadz. We get some fantas and have a smoke in the back. Really nice little shop this, would definitely call in when I'm in the area.
It's time to hit the hay, it's been a fun but hectic day and I'm more than ready for bed.
TBC...
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