Note: Unfortunately I didn’t manage to take many notes or pictures this time, my camera was acting up and I had a pretty tight schedule so I struggled to make time for notes! Managed to get this written down a couple of hours before I left for the airport though!
“Saturday – 26/5/12 3:30AM
Earlier on the week I figured that it would be a great idea for me and Bob to stay up all night on Thursday, so that we could sleep all day on Friday and wake up refreshed for heading to the airport. What happened in reality was that we smoked our stash, stayed up till 7am watching Austin Powers films and woke up around 11am knowing that we would have to wait out a horrible, long, smokeless and (surprisingly) sunny day in Scotland! We came to our senses in the afternoon and decided to pick up one last bag before we left and a phonecall/long walk later, we were hanging out at our dealers place, smoking a few, and playing with his new pet turtle. We headed back to my house for a blunt before bed and that really knocked us out for the rest of the day. Bob is still snoozing at the moment; I probably should be doing the same. Shower, smoke, fly, voyagers!”
Everything else from this point on is written from memory, so you’ll have to bear with me when reading this, sorry!
Arrived at the airport with tons of time to spare, smoked a quick cigarette before heading in (You can’t smoke at Glasgow airport once you’ve checked in, which absolutely sucks!) and headed over to spoons for some overpriced pints of Stella and a couple of breakfast rolls! Beer always tastes better at 6am, sent me to sleep on the plane too, which I don’t think Bob was too happy about! Under two hours later we had made it to Schipol and headed straight for the train station. On the train to Centraal I thought about how smooth our journey was in comparison to earlier visits, and then I thought about getting to smoke a joint of some dam weed again! Looking at the cool graffiti beside the train tracks definitely makes your journey seem faster/more interesting! It looked like we were going to get to voyagers thirty minutes early and for that I was thankful!
The moment when you come out of Centraal and step onto the chaotic streets of the city never gets old. The first road we crossed resulted in three near-death experiences for Bob, this was his first time here and he was NOT used to the traffic! We power-walked over to voyagers as fast as we could without breaking into a run! Greeted by HB, we bought a couple of grams each and found a nice table to sit at, skin up, and see if any of the ACDers that I’d arranged to meet up with would show.
As some of you forum members already know, I made some purchase lists and budgets to take over and try to stick to as much as possible. I had my eye on the “Purple Strawberry Bliss” and the “Pink Sour Grapefruit” before arriving. Bob wanted the PSB too, so when we had a look at the up-to-date menu and saw that the Bliss was gone, we were both pretty gutted! (I was warned before I left that this would happen with a lot of places) HB pointed out the “Not So Shoreline” which he said was pretty much the same thing but with better looking buds, so Bob went for a twenty bag of that while I somehow managed to fuck up my order and accidently ended up with a twenty bag of the “Strawberry Sour Diesel” and a gram of the PSG!
Upon first inspection of the Pink Sour Grapefruit I was impressed, nice and crystally, smelled more like general good weed than grapefruit to me, but was the best bud that I’d seen since January so I wasn’t complaining!
I was about half way through rolling up a doob of that when Bob stopped me and said “Smell this.” He handed me over his bag of the Not So Shoreline to have a quick look at. I cannot stress how nice this stuff smells! It’s light and fruity but there’s something else in the smell that I find near enough impossible to explain – if god exists, he smokes the NSS.
After smoking a pure joint each that we switched half way through, I was feeling pretty good and stoned! I even got out my notepad and pen ready to take some notes, but for some reason I didn’t get that far. By this time it was 11:35 and no one new had walked in, so either everyone else decided to bail, or they were already here. That’s when I realised the latter was more likely and had a listen to see if anyone was talking about the ACD. I overheard HB talking to a guy about the forum and assumed that he must be Gapie, so I skinned up another quick joint that I could bring over to smoke. That was when I got a good look and smell of my second bag!
As soon as I popped open the Strawberry Sour Diesel, I was nearly knocked unconscious from the smell alone! You know how when you take a big bong hit and you can almost feel a giant coughing fit starting to build up inside of you? Well that’s what this strain smelled like! I had two big dense purple tipped nugs and some shrapnel in my baggie and Bob kindly offered me some of his Not So Shoreline to make a cocktail with, so I whipped up a quick one and wandered over to introduce myself.
By the time I gathered all my stuff, sparked up and walked over, Gapie was talking to two other guys, hitting all sorts of weirdly shaped bongs and pipes. “DunToker? I am Gapie, that’s treetop, and there’s Matty223!” We passed around a couple of joints and if I remember correctly, a couple of vapo bags too! At that point, PaddyIrishWoman walked over and said hi, pointing out her friend to us who looked like he was fucked and stuck to his seat on the other side of the shop! The cocktail had reached treetop and after a couple of tokes, he asked what was in it and bought some SSD – good choice! PaddyIrishWoman was skinning up at a table, so me and Bob went over to join her and I rolled another joint of the PSG. Gapie came over a couple of minutes later and handed Bob a weird looking pipe with some hash in it but Bob gave it a miss, so I hit it instead (I’ve never seen a pipe with a rush hole in my life! Did it even have water in it? ) and it was damn tasty! I smoke a lot of weed back home but never really get to try hash, so this tasted particularly rich to me! We passed around our joints to the rest of the guys and when PaddyIrishWoman’s mystery joint got to treetop, he took a draw without realising she put tobacco in it! Apparently that was the first time he smoked tobacco in like eight years! Whoops!
Gapie mentioned that him and a couple of other people were heading down to Spirit if we wanted to join them, but me and Bob were already about an hour behind schedule so we decided to leave it and make the long walk south to our hostel! I thought it was pretty cool that Gapie went round the whole coffeeshop saying bye to everyone before he left, he really is pretty popular in voyagers, and seems to know everyone in Amsterdam too!
We left voyagers stoned out of our minds and floated down Damrak, past the square and down Rokin where we arrived at out next destination – Subway for a foot long steak and cheese!
