Day 2 ….April 21 the city built on water and the ebbing of people
Dawn is pullind my eyes open…a beautiful Carolon and two other sets of ringing bell in the backgroung lul me back to sleep…thank you… we wake around 8am that late for me
I’m normally at work around 6 am…
Anyone who has been in love can remember how you feel the first morning when you wake up with someone new kind of a gushy lovey feeling…That’s the way I feel now lighting up the first joint of many looking out over the rooftops that our fifth floor window gives…listening to the bells… Judy wonders why I have a stupid look on my face… I say I feel like a school girl… with her first crush…. On a city….???
We’ve have brought some breckfast stuff, and coffee stuff with us, so we can have breckfast in the room, it really saved money for us and besides we are not the breckfast types… however I do need my coffee… at home I drink Cuban Coffee, made in an American drip coffee pot… easy
We walk down to central station find the vvv office wait in line.. get a lady who tries not to sell the week pass… but I ssay… they said you would say that… but here is our photos …she then says oh you mean the 7-day pass…..ok whatever…..( first of 2 bad experiences)
We then go into train station to ticket counter where we meet a beautiful young black woman…with eyes that would stop you dead in your tracks just to look inside…I ask about Beverjewik…..I say bever-jer-wicky…she looks me dead in eye and says seriously
Bever-vik…I say yeah that what I said… bever-jer-wicky…. To which she just cracks up
And I find myself swept away in her happy personality…She more then makes up for the vvv lady… anyway we told about a weekend pass for two people… that will allow us to travel anywhere in Holland…..ok away we go….
We decide…hahaha…now I’m the decider… we saw the dutch making fun of him on the tv this morning….To go to the Grasshopper for a bite to eat and some smoke…I get Judy to order lunch… while I go to the magic window… yeah… you push a buttom and a menue appears just like magic… I buy the A-9 Grasshopper special 1.3 grams for 17.50 euro and 1.5 gram of skuff for 15 euro, the bud tender weighs in front of you love that
After Lunch we cross street jump tram to Leidersplein.. which is a huge square with intersecting tram hubs… we are looking for Boom Chicago Bar… so we can book the smoking boat tour… I cant wait … because of plans we book for Sunday 2 pm
We then just find a table havae a smoke and a orange juice and soak up the sun and the expierence….
Shortly before 4 we head in the direction of the Zoo actually past the zoo til you can see the Windmill “t the Egg…one of the last working windmill in the dam….the only brewery in a windmill in all of Holland… the tour starts at 4 pm don’t be late… and go
Yes it dose sound a little cheesy however really great for free compared to the other tour for 10 Euro and a free glass… so you pay for the beer… the real tour is free….. and judging by the crowds around the place it must be good… sorry we don’t drink bier so didn’t try.
We backtrack on trams… love that pass … it just allows us the freedom to just jump on here and there…so back to room… more coffee… smoke… and coats and set off for the
Grey area
Once outside I was going to jump tram and run up one stop…but we find all trams have stoped moving vertully bring everything to a standstill… yes it really was surreal like time has stoped for all in moving vehicles… but anyone who is outside can move about freely… like a scean from a movie.
We walak a block turn right go over a bridge and its on right… We meet Maartin…wonderful guy…I buy Grey Chrystles 1 gram for 15.00 euro, C-13 and
Grey Haze 1 gram each for 10.00 euro…
We head for Ole Hippy Dave vapo party at Amnesia…just around corner and down block
WOW what a very nice place…again very very crowded…. Close to 40 people
I hug Dave and someone gives me a huge plastic bag and says squeeze and breath….OMG…I Think… don’t know…need more research….yeah that’s the ticket more research.
So I meet this guy who intro himself as Bill…I ask what he do and he says he workes at
The museum…OMG…IS IT….I almost knock himover in a bear hug…oh I been looking forward to meeting you…….I’m not Eagle Bill……On No its really real… he is gone
Well this totally blowes my head I’m blown away by an overwhelming sadness of what could have been…..I go outside to recover…and I’m met by the group
Who is just arriving…AZ stays outside to hang and talk ( Miss You Man !), while the rest go inside…after a while we decide to go and eat and meet at the Ness
Judy and I go to the Pizza place on Damrik, find the chicken frances very good, and more then enough for two for 8 euro plus drink. Then we run to Ness where we find our group
Leaving because DC isent at work….NO DA…I saw him at ole hippy daves party…
So we walk down Hogenstraat and gointo eighter Old Man or the Indian…in search of the Laughing pot leaf for mrs AZ…hi Deb….We found pleanty of the laffing Pot teapot, trays, lighters, notebooks, diaper bag…..( ok you goy me… only kidding about the diaper bag )
Then we go off in the direction of the Red Light Dist. They see 2 shoops right next to each other…ok by me… even though they aren’t on my list… we go.. for whever pot go I go… I go into Wild Style and buy Purple Haze 5 grams for 22.00 euro…yeah…I’ll have a slice of that please… this stuff so dark it almost looks black… however it is very dry and practly crumbles without being put into my new favorite toy… my cheap plastic gringer… OMG … Where have you been all my life….. I’ve been smoking for more then 35 years…aperantly in a vaccume I roll up two fattys one plain and one with an extra Kick of grey crystals….I love that AZ called the pot purple power plant.
Its twilight thirty ( Which here seems like to last fron 6 pm-1800 to 9pm 2100…we are sitting outside on sidewalk, people virtually strangers, but in some weird way friends for life…..smoking Pot and Hash openly Its really like living out someone dream. HA what a lucky bastard I’m….Lafe… What can I say about Lafe… He looks just like his Icon…whatever…except no pipe…he has a wonderful deep resounding voice…Dude…if
Your not on the radio… you missed your calling…I very much liked listening to your voice…anyway… we had been talking about traveling together to the Black Market and Keunhoff…..Oh what a smart man you were….It seams like you were only one of a handful of people not to be at the Keuenhoff…(All of Holland plus judy and myself….oh but that story’s to come…. If you all want more)
It starts to drizzle…tiny…faint…drops… the kind that makes you want to walk in it…..I
Really love that kind of rain…The foursome which includes Zunki and BlueMing
Zunki speaks with two accents…which means to me an American… he is a foreigner…meaning accent and for me a person who loves sounds…I could hang on whats being said just for the patter… Zunki…Please tell everyone what your native accent is… if you will… I don’t want to give away what you might consider privet.
BlueMing…her personalty dosent come across thru the screan…as it dose in real life…
She is a real scream…..and kept us laughing most of the time…..She had judy and myself laughing so hard last night when we were looking for the Ness and almost got run over by the horse and carrage… that I almost pissed my pants….Love you Minging
I realize as they get up to leave, almost with a numbing horror…that this might be the last
Time I see these fellow travlers…Its amazing…The coming and going of people like the ebbing of the tides. ( what a play on words….the ebbing tides of the people on the city on water ) I watch their backs disappear into the crowds and the rain…there happy voices drift off… see you next time…..
Grasshopper
A-9 Grasshopper
1.3 grams for 17.50 euro
Skuff
1.52 gram for 15.00 euro
Grey Area
Grey Crystals
1 gram for 15.00 euro
C-13 and Grey Haze
1 gram each for 10.00 euro
Wild Style
Purple Haze
5 grams for 22.00 euro
8.3 grams Pot 59.50 euro
2.2 grams Hash 30.00 euro
Day 2 the city built on water and the ebbing of people
Again bluelaru anyone fine report, could have sworn that was purple power plant, LOL. We smoke quite a bit of pot and hash that night, who could remember. Ahhhhh, reminiscencing of those 4 great days. There are so many people on this board that I would like to meet and hopefully that will be the case next year, at the Annual ACD 420 Hook-up. Thanks again bluelaru. I'll give you a call and see how you and your better half are doing. AzLaker 
If you never do, you'll never know.
I try not to get too emotional about or attached to places or people when I go on holiday but it is sometimes hard and I can imagine that being engaged in social smoking with these guys will only make it harder.
Okay, I did spend quite a bit of time in Nes-Cafe during my last trip but the beer was cheaper and the staff were friendlier than any other place I went to and it was just around the corner from my hotel.
It was always going to be "graced" with my presence on more than one occasion.
By the way, another top write up BlueLaru.
Okay, I did spend quite a bit of time in Nes-Cafe during my last trip but the beer was cheaper and the staff were friendlier than any other place I went to and it was just around the corner from my hotel.
It was always going to be "graced" with my presence on more than one occasion.
By the way, another top write up BlueLaru.
The main thing I remember after you came back outside with that fat bag of Purple Weed (tm) is you staring at it for a moment and then proclaimingWhat can I say about Lafe… He looks just like his Icon…whatever…except no pipe…he has a wonderful deep resounding voice…Dude…if
Your not on the radio… you missed your calling…I very much liked listening to your voice…anyway… we had been talking about traveling together to the Black Market and Keunhoff…..Oh what a smart man you were….It seams like you were only one of a handful of people not to be at the Keuenhoff…
I'M GONNA SMOKE IT ALL
And no, I'm not a radio announcer but I play one on TV....
Good to see your belated report. In fact, I went to Haarlem and Keukenhof on Monday and it was indeed crowded, but that's to be expected. Can't imagine what it was like on Saturday - it was manageable on Monday, but still crowded.
I'll do Black Market with you guys next time, if we're both there and you're willing.
very best regards to both you and Judy
-lafe