Episode VI the boys are back in town

[macky]

onehighmofo you sure do live up to your handle hope your not done

you need to come 420....you got to see it to believe it

[OneHighMofo]

Thankyou everyone the kind words and encouragement are very much appreciated.

We're having an amazing time so finding time to write is difficult. Hopefully there'll be some pics in the next piece...

An update then!


Continued...
Happily; just as we are buying a train tickets we bump into ChopperMike at Schipol. It's fantastic to see him - we have a chance to catch up properly as we jump on the train together and head in to central.

It is a beautiful day in Amsterdam - walking out of the station together into a bright and sunny morning we are a set of excited little bunnies! Of course it's time to head straight to Voyagers.

There are a good few interesting kushes on the menu and a couple of familiar faces. I opt for the safe bet. (all purchases are one gram unless specified)

Lemon bubble €12
Shining. I can taste both parents like never before in this specimen. I think this could be the best Lemon bubble that I've ever purchased at voyagers.

The favours are intermingled so well it's very difficult to pull them apart but the lemon is complimented by the hash plant savoury throat tickle and over-ripe grape of the silver bubble. The Skunky bottom end from the other parent is the perfect addition - it polishes the package into something complete. Greater than the sum of its parts

A fantastic first smoke voyagers have been killing it recently and I'm really happy with everything I buy here.
Lemon bubble - €12
8.0 fucking fantastic

Original blueberry €13
I'm still not sure why I buy bags of blueberry. I got sick of it years ago when it was all that the local delivery boys could offer.

The nose on this example is somehow different. It's not floral like DJ shorts blueberry, it's not cheesy like UK livers. The berries are all there but again they're overripe, more sour and velvet with a sharp edge that is subtle yet distinctive. I enjoy the doob for the most part.
O-blueberry €13
7.7 someone will love it

Ricky bought:
Kaligria
Yes the base is haze, the top Notes are a mixture of sweet, sugar and spice. Herbaceous and floral with a hint of sour to round out the bass notes.

Her parents are interesting - they don't seem to form its constituent parts. She is a Spanish strain (Algeria) mixed with Kali mist - so god knows where all this haze comes from on the palate. If I did not know better I'd swear she was an SSH crossed with something fruity.

She is a light green has a lovely texture. She's it's not quite finger crunch ready but she does crumble nicely between the fingers and is still a little bit sticky. Great stuff.

Kaligria €12 - voyagers
M: 8.0
R: 7.9

Platinum GSC
the flavours weren't massively loud in my little bubbler but then the flavours of this strain never are. Certainly there are signature notes of cocoa, dough and maybe a very subtle freshness that might be described as minty but I've seen better representations of the flavours in this strain.
Texture and finish is on point as usual. The flowers are dark green with even darker areas with purple hues - typical of this lady.
Platinum GSC €12 - voyagers
M: 7.8
R: 7.8
Nice finish, nothing to complain about

We don't stick around too long - shooting the shit for a while - swapping flavours and tales. Soon it's time to make a move. chopper Mike wants to rent a bike and we'd like to relieve ourselves of the burden of our luggage. We swap plans and agree to hook up later around the 'Amnesia area'. Perhaps typical of a stoner plan destined to fail you may think - but nevertheless.

It's a lovely sunny walk to dump the bags off - we're both really happy to be on the ground and I can feel the anticipation of a good strain hunt building. I want to take our kid to some of the shops he's never been to so first of all we head to the north west of the city for a little session at Siberie.

Grape ape €12
Another set of mild and mellow flavours from this purchase at Siberie. The sour grape high notes lay velvet smooth on the palate, typical of the bio-organic approach of the farmers here - really easy to smoke. She translates well in the vape too.

M: 7.7
R: 7.6
Could be louder - but little to complain about.

We have a nice little sesh here - grabbing a seat by the door we tuck into our wares and acclimatise to the mokum way of life. Suddenly everything feels easy.

Some more Kaligria and PGSC go through the bongs and vapes, grape ape in the vape too. It's s nice little sesh and Ricky likes the place.

Unfortunately the doob rolling means I've run out of weed already. This will be a common theme for the early part of the day.

Ricky buys a gram of Red Leb as a nostalgia buy - trying to recapture the flavours of youth.

It's ok. Not particularly easy on the palate (understatement of the travelogue). Not massively stand out in taste either. I secretly plan to improve it by pressing it for rosin and wait for our kid to catch up and suggest them same I'll rate it once it's smokable!
Red Leb €7

We push on - the sun is shining and a gentle stoney stroll down the herengracht is very pleasant indeed.
Blazing in fact.

Tripping past Amnesia - Ricky notices Mike sitting outside - I'm oblivious as usual drifting around in my fugue state. Serendipity - we're three again. Milkshake ahh. We get the table outside and enjoy the air. Ricky pops inside for a look at the menu. I already know what he'll buy.

He surprises me with a bag of liberty haze! Not being a Barney's fan he said he was sold on the nose when the Acapulco wasn't available. I can see why. Lime and lemon haze eggs from the bag. Yummy.

He did however buy the NYCD as anticipated. It sings from the bag. Gassy grapefruit diesel with an indescribable sharp finish.

I grab the LSD which is skunk x mazar. I've never tried her - put off by the silly name I suppose, but the parentage is interesting. I'll give her a whirl.

LSD €13
Skunk x mazar is an interesting combination - another marriage greater than the sum of its parts.
The floral nature of both parents combine, leaving the bottom end of the skunk and the herbal desert spice of the mazar to top and tail her profile.
Great flush and great texture.
Really happy with this purchase. We blaze her in the sunshine.
7.9 - An interesting mix of familiar flavours

Nycd €15
Oh my word. Strong red grapefruit gas with an old school vibe I'd describe as funk not dank. It's not unpleasant - sour without being acrid, the smoke is smooth and light in the throat from the bubbler. Really nice flush and finish. Pricey though.

We both rated her 7.9 beautiful - scored down only on price

Liberty haze €16
Another surprising buy - another on point specimen from Amnesia. Pricey but nice. Strong lime flavours in the citrus high notes. The middle is of course supplied by the haze parentage, spicy and savoury with a hint of skunk to round out the base.

Both eater her 7.8 - could perhaps have surpassed a score of 8 with a lower price point.

During our canal-side stay we watched the detritus retrieval barge pull claw loads full of bikes from the canal. In the 30 minutes it took to work its way past they pull 15 or 20 bikes from the water. Bonkers. I'd have got a shot - but I'm too fucking high and I really can't be bothered.

Sat in sun shooting the shit with Mike and my bro blazing mad trees. Good times.

I've been getting texts and calls from deleuks threatening to show but I figure he must have done the sensible thing and grabbed some shut eye. He'll be here soon enough.

On we head to Grey area, it's typically packed so we bide our time. The BT is helpful and patient with us as we get a nose on every tray.

I'm totally out of gear so I buy:

Sweet island skunk - €15
This is another lady I've longed to sample. She doesn't disappoint. Lovely floral fruit punch with a gentle sour finish. Smooth and creamy she's got a hint of lavender and marshmallow candy. Superior flush and finish.
7.5 - gorgeous but loses a full half point on price.

Grey haze - €15 again I think.
Lovely and complex, there's enough extra interest to lift this beyond the average haze. There are red berries and candy sweet sherbet fizz in the vape with a subtle sour back note of sour grape hash plant.
Great finger crunch texture abd another cracking flush - velvet smooth when burnt.

M: 7.8
R: 7.7
Solid, again marked back on price. An easy contender for an 8 or above.

24k - €16
I wouldn't normally buy this - I've only ever been disappointed but the nose is strong. All the flavours are apparent and loud. Rotten orange stank bolstered and made even more dank by the astringent OG funk from the kosher parent. Fantastic burnt - even better Vaped. Similar quality of flush as the rest of the product here.

7.8 - nasty but nice. Again marked down on price.

From grey area Ricky also grabs a bag of:

Silver bubble €13
Our favourite strain - this example is close but no cigar. She is good enough to to please though. Lovely sweet candy with a hash plant velvet finish. I only sampled a small amount but enough to rate her in the high sevens. Voyagers example back in April was better and cheaper so:

M: 7.8
R: 7.8

As we're sorting ourselves outside post shopping - Deleukstenugs16 arrives finally. It's great to see the cheeky fucker as his beard lights up the street. We have great times catching up as we amble through town to the Cannabis College. Pressing Rosin on the mind.

Maria is here - lovely to see her as ever. Ricky is well on side by now and we press the red Leb out. The yield is good and the product less harsh than the original block to some tune.
I'd give it oooo at least 5 out of 10. €7 though - whaddya want?

D presses some Haze flowers and Tangie bloc hash to great result from both.

The Red Leb is super minty, almost eucalyptus. Like dabbing floral olbas oil - it tastes like my dads bedroom.
I'm no fan.

It's a great sesh, we vape, we roll, we dab. We bong. We're high.
And oh boy we're hungry. D hooks up the local knowledge and soon we're in a lovely little Chinese restaurant in the shadow of the Buddist temple on Zeedijk. Some supreme crispy pork and duck pancakes later and the boys bellies are sated. Time to get high with the weed nerds!

Back north then. There's business to attend. I meet a contact who has serous import hash game. Pricey but we grab 3.5g of shoesoles morrocan and 3.5g sweet smoky Nepalese oily black. This is the import quality I was looking for - more pressing ahoy.

Ricky is feeling bushed having had no sleep at all. He heads back to the hotel. Deleuks and I have more business to attend. A quick jaunt out to the suburbs on the Metro and we meet a hook up by a quiet canal.
5g Critical €35 and 5g SSH at €35 plus a g of Amnesia wax at €60.

Quick smart back to the centre and we figure a sesh sat the bulldog is in order. into the bar we pile and get our cache set up in no time.

Comrade deleuks is a fucking trooper - on no sleep at all he's still on his cheeky monkey game and the banter is great all day despite him coming almost straight from a night shift and being about to head for another!
Oh for such youthful exuberance.

We smash in loads of dabs of BHO and rosin, getting through a variety of examples from our various stashes.
Deleuks has some nice head stash - a couple of difficult to find karma genetics strains and some more choice cuts are sampled.

It's time for deleuks to head to work come 10pm so I roll two doobs: critical and SSH. A late night stroll is the nightcap order of the day.
What a cracking end - Ricky and I sat in t-shirts canal side at midnight.
Another fucking amazing day in the dam.

Bed time.

[Largefella]

Holy crap - epic and awesome - what a write up.

I'll be reading this a couple more times before I head over at the end of the month - wonderful writing and reviews.

[northern boy]

I was sat reading that drooling a can't wait for Sunday

[Willjay]

onehighmofo you sure do live up to your handle hope your not done

you need to come 420....you got to see it to believe it

I'll miss 420 by a few days next trip is for Kings Day 2017, starting in London with a Chunnel ride (bucket list) to the main land on my wife's birthday April 24

however your neck of the woods looks promising for some green tourism in the near future

[Cry Tuff]

Have neither the capacity or desire to indulge to your level these days . Id be in a fucking coma . But you can scribe this stuff all day , afaic . Excellent . Looking forward to the next chunk .

[LLMReb]

Wonderful read. Thanks so much!

[johnnygiovanni]

Great read boys!! I'm really curious about those import hashes you bought, how's the quality? Thanks for sharing so finely your adventures, have a big blast guys!!

[macky]

however your neck of the woods looks promising for some green tourism in the near future [/quote]PM me if your coming to Ontario.....me and missus staying after 420 for kings day also in 2017 . One or other we will have a shesh

[gapie]

[Willjay]

however your neck of the woods looks promising for some green tourism in the near future

PM me if your coming to Ontario.....me and missus staying after 420 for kings day also in 2017 . One or other we will have a shesh [/quote]

Yes we will

[Nuggz]

DLN16 Top 5 Gems of Dam - The Tag Along Picks (in no particular order):

Het Ballonnetje - Special K
Voyagers - Kaligria
Greenplace - Shoreline
Greenplace - Alien Technology
Yo-Yo - Frysian Dew (#rolleyesricky)

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[macky]

Frysiian Dew and there Holland Hope ,never liked that seed bank. Tried both outside twenty years ago ,didn,t like it then. Paradise seeds makes Sensi look good

[bundy1983]

Great read

[OneHighMofo]

Day 2

Amazingly - I'm awake around 9:30 fresh as a daisy. The sun is streaming in through the open window and immediately; unfortunately - so is chatter and tool scrape from the workmen re-pointing the building. Ah well - it's too nice to sleep in and there's business to attend. Let’s get up and at em!

I call our kid on the blower - he's up too! Wonders will never cease. Off we go then - we’ll keep it simple, Haarlemmerstraat and La Grotte for breakfast. Three eggs, two toast and a couple of nice SSH and Critial doobs to give the day an early rosy glow. Today could be a long one.

'SSH wake n bake doob'

Mike checks in by text - he's gone to Haarlem and Zandvoort and DLN16 is probably still sleeping so we finish up our food, wrap up and take a walk back to central station in order to jump on the number 4 tram heading for Utrechstraat. Boerejongens it is! I have a load of gear so Ricky did the only shopping here of the trip.

Choco cookies - €9
Very tasty but Ricky reportedly needed to really pack his cancer kush spliffs in order to get a decent flavour from her.
It was certainly the best of the cookies crosses he bought (there will be more) - especially at that price.
I tried a little in the vape and in my mini bubbler and was mostly impressed myself. There were distinct notes of cocoa, coffee and this time - baked cookie dough with a smoother finish than the PGSC from voyagers.
7.6 - decent smoke

Ricky being the born cynic that he is doesn't take very well to the pomp and ceremony of Amsterdam's new socially acceptable face of organised crime. He declares Boereojongens up their own hipster arses and they are to become known as mondo-burger for the rest of the trip much to our amusement. He does like their menu though - so you know, don't take the critique too seriously

I took the opportunity to wallow in some W.C luxury and used the salubrious bathroom. Really - it's worth a mention and a visit on its own merits. I'd have taken a picture but it didn't seem like the right thing to do. Having said that - I very much get the feeling that consumption is very definitely verplicht if you want the bathroom experience.
We form a quick plan and decide walk to Spui for two reasons - Ricky is happy to walk and would like a smoothie so that we keep up our intake of something healthy and nutritious. And I would like a shopping expedition into Dampkring. That sounds like a plan. We have doobs rolled, vapes loaded and the sun is still blazing down on Amsterdam this lunch time.

We hit the Spui. Although amble might be a better word though at this point and a stumble into a smoothie shop. Ricky goes for the extreme option and plumps for fruit, veg, ginger and turmeric. Mind blowing to say the least! There’s no haste left in us - so a canal side bench is home for a while. That sun is glorious.

Dampkring is just around the corner. It’s packed and we have to wait in line in order to get served but our doobs see us through to the counter until I bought: Ceres Hilton at €12 and Top Dawg €13. Ricky bought Cherry bomb at €10, Cheddar €11 and Tangie €14.

It's far too nice to be sitting in coffeeshops today. It would be a crime not to see the sun so we forge a Vondel park session, heading down on the tram from Spui.

We stake a spot buy the monument, park our arses and tuck in. Enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of the busy Vondelpark. People are BBQ’ing, old-skool hip-hop floats from various boom-boxes and everyone is happy enjoying the sunshine. I roll a joint for some Danish guys sat next to us. Deleuks finally arrives having spent two hours getting his ear chewed off by his hairdresser. That must have really sucked with the sun cracking the flags and the thought we were blazing mad trees in the park!

We hang, we smoke, we laugh, we taste, we geek out on some flavours and watch the world go by. Life feels great today.

‘Carnage in the park'

Ceres Hilton - €12 - Dampkring
I love this strain. There’s nothing particularly new about her flavour profile. They’re all familiar flavours but my word do they compliment each other. It’s so complex. All kinds of fruit candy, it reminds me of everything. There’s Afghan savoury sage mixed with sherbet haze fizz and a slightly sweet and sour finish. Good lord. I vaped her mainly and put the rest through my bubbler. Fantastic texture; perfectly dry yet retaining some stickiness.
7.9 - excellent

Top Dawg - €13 - Dampkring
I’m smoking a lot of OG kush derivatives at home at the moment - so the chemmy end of this lady is familiar to my palate.
She’s all pond-scum rotten fruit funk and sour notes of gassy pine cleaner. The finish is decent - I rolled this lady into a fattie where she burnt well enough and saved a little for the vape where she didn’t fare as well as the doob for whatever reason.
7.6 - decent enough

Cherry bomb €10 - Dampkring
Worst of the trip - very little flavour either Vaped or burnt despite a good nose and some decent bag appeal.
The finish was nothing to complain about but ultimately this and the Cheddar were the biggest disappointment of the trip.
6.0 - don't bother

Cheddar €11 - Dampkring
Solid nose and again a decent flush but with very little cheese flavour and an ultimately non-descript experience.
Even at this low price there wasn’t enough to hold Ricky’s interest.
5.9 - a bit of a non starter

Tangie €14 - Dampkring
The orange citrus wasn't as strong as it could be for me on the palate, she fared better in the vape rather than burnt.
Citrus peel rather than the sour rotten skunk stank of the other variations we bought. She had a light sugary top-end that was tickly in the nose.
The flush was good enough - just not enough transfer of taste to rate her highly given the price tag.
R: 6.8
M: 7.0



Come 5pm Ricky and I have crap English tans and need to get out of the sun. So - it's time for another trip to the Cannabis College for a Rosin pressing and dabbing session from the import hashes we bought yesterday. Deleuks presses a gram of haze out too which will later end up being the tastiest hit of the day.

It's always lovely to see the guys and girls at the CC they're so enlightened and helpful compared to many CS owners. Rosin pressing is about harm reduction for these guys - not turning a profit; so our hobbies are welcome here.

The Morrocan shoe-soles and the Nepali import press well. Easily the most impressive results I've seen to date.

Nepali top - shoe soles bottom.

There are still some minty flavours in there which are not to my tastes at all - but gladly the bouquet of both Rosins has depth and complexity beyond the menthol. I usually find it overpowering but there are other flavours to compensate. The Nepali is dark, oily and totally unstable as expected. Impossible to handle it has strong floral notes with a liquorice tickle.
The shoe-soles makes a lovely light brown stable little block of oil. This is no bog standard Maroc. The signature notes of sandy savoury spice are complimented by a faint fruitiness that gives the terpene profile a rounded edge and lifts it away from the average.
Both have super modulating effects on my haze high and they're both hugely sedative by comparison to stack of hazes I’m chonging on.

The boys are getting hungry now. After some deliberation - Deleuks hooks it up with the local knowledge and we're soon heading east to Kinkerstraat to hit Foodhallen. A large collection of street food vendors in a huge old tram shed. There's loads of choice and the place is buzzing.
'The Butcher' is here.
I need vegetarian food to stay healthy.
Instead I have burger.
Lots of burger.

'The Butcher' SERIOUSLY impressed Rickydude. No eye-rolling whatsoever. If you hadn't worked it out by now - that's a recommendation!

DLN16 informs us the Kashmir is only ‘up the road’ - but our feet hurt, we’re tired - it’s past 10 and Eerste Hulp is on the tram route back to town post session. There’s always next time - and it’s nice to have a plan to look forward to so we decide to miss Kashmir again best laid plans go to waste and all that.

A quick walk and we’re heading into Eerst Hulp. It’s been a while for me and the menu is still not quite up to scratch in terms of it’s expansive choice since their ‘troubles’ during 4/20. However - what is on the menu looks great and the British BT is happy, patient and knowledgeable.

Ricky and I both bought a gram of Somas Amnesia for €11
This had fantastic bag appeal and had a lovely loud flavour profile on the nose. Predominantly herbal slightly cheesy mid-tones with a sour sage funk. The taste is just as loud - and the flush is really nice so nothing to complain about there. For me though - the taste delivered a slightly different experience than the nose promised. There are a lot of fruity notes in this which although not unpleasant isn't really what I'm looking for from an Amnesia. I like it as a back-note - but here the fruitiness is all out front and I’d prefer the sage savoury spice to sing.
The flush is great though - much better than the product from this shop in the past few previous visits.

M: 7.9 - solid but just not quite perfect
R: 7.5

Girl Scout Cookies - €15 Eerste Hulp
The flavour profile is different from the Voyagers example with a good cookie dough savoury middle. This one wasn't as minty or chocolatey as the boereojongens example. Decent flush and finish - not perfect - but not bad.
7.5 - Close but no cigar

Orange diesel v3
This one has a nice bag appeal - but I do think that it’s easy to mistake the character of a decent diesel cross for a product that’s been rushed. Initially the bouquet can be reminiscent of hay but on further inspection that dry nose has complexity. The diesel notes aren’t quite strong enough in this example but she does have an interesting orange peel finish on the outtake, with a lovely flush the experience is a good one.
Not too gassy but pleasantly skunky with a fizzy almost haze spiced top end
7.7 - Not overwhelming but someone will love her.

East Coast Sour Diesel
Interesting - again not a loud flavour profile but I can identify chemmy OG flavours and the gassy notes are stronger in this example. With a similar quality flush to everything else I bought at Eerste Hulp it’s easy to spot the subtle hints of sour fruit punch on the exhale.
7.6 - Not enough diesel for my tastes

Eerste Hulp is a good session - we sit downstairs, letting the red meat fugue meld with my stoniness I can hardly move. I don’t even smoke that much in here. We chat, debate, take the piss and laugh like children for a good couple hours. The missus calls and I sit outside with a doob chatting to her on the next street over - claiming a nice leather couch that someone has happily dumped/provided.
It’s a lovely fifteen minutes and I feel refreshed afterwards. When I get back the lads are ready to get off so we plan to get the tram back to town while D cycles over to meet us at the Bulldog.

As the tram stops pretty much outside - it would seem rude not to say hello to Ingi and grab a few bags. Ricky has never been in and I’ve head great things about the Citral. So - a flying visit to Utopia it is. I grab a bag of the Pink and Ricky grabs a gram of the Citral.

We slide back across town to meet D who’s been patiently waiting for us at the Bulldog. We grab the seat in the corner with all the power outlets and plug-in, tune-in, turn-on and drop-out.

This sesh is MAJOR. The dab train is running at full steam ahead. We get though a third of the Amnesia BHO a quarter of the 2g Rosin stash and a fuck load of other baggies head to the great baggie playground in the sky. I have no idea exactly what flowers we smoked but I know that we easily smashed in a good 4 or 5 g’s in that session. Plus what DLN16 chucked in from his stash (that flower rosin never made it out of the building afaik) - serious smoking here boys. Good efforts all round


'Grey Area’s Silver Bubble’


CS ‘Canal Side’ - SSH

God knows how but I did make some notes on the Utopia buys.

The Pink €15 - Utopia
Slightly acrid on the intake but lovely hues of lavender and sweet shoelace candy. Like a velvet pez. Not the best flush and finish perhaps but a nice new flavour never the less. Ricky judged it much harsher because he has iron lungs capable of ripping my doobs to shreds and promptly does so - he has a bigger hit perspective so to speak. Subsequently marked down on price too I’m afraid.
M: 7.5
R: 6.4

Citral:
More green grapefruit than simple lemon citrus, this lady is complex and has a fruity top end. I only tried a tiny amount in my bubbler but Ricky scored her highly. I wish I’d bought a bag to side-by-side compare her to the Voyagers lemon bubble
8.0 - Excellent

Around 2:30am Ricky hits the hay. DLN16 and I roll a few doobs, load the vape and hit the canal side for a nightcap.
I have no idea what time I went to bed. I do know that my final doob was smoked alone outside the bulldog, where I needed to hold onto the canal railing to steady myself from wobbling too much

Bed time.