Amsterdam
I just got back yesterday, it was crazy! I KNEW we would end up just getting stoned and not going to any museums and that's exactly what happened.
We tried Skunk, Jamaican, K2, Silver Haze, White Widow, Northern Lights, White Dolphin, Thai and some Polm, it was all so fucking nice except for the Thai really.
The first coffeeshop we visited was called Noon. It was okay, small and comfortable but I felt like the guy who worked there gave us a funny look when we walked in. Also they had MTV on... But it was sweet anyway.
Then we went to another one called The Dolphins, where they sold the White Dolphin. That place was cool, there were a few steps up to the doorway, and in that room were a few tables with vapourisers and the walls were made to look like it was under the sea. Then it had a downstairs part with loads of cool sofas and really amazing paintings on the walls.
The next one was also a bar called Easy Times, just up the street from Noon. It had a much better atmosphere than Noon, and Bob Marley pictures on the walls and Reggae playing on the radio.
We were staying in a place near the Leidse Plein which is kind of just an area of restaurants and things. So we didn't get into the actual city centre until the third and last days. While we were there we went to a coffeeshop called the Kadinsky, which was tiny but chilled out and had good music. We were in another one too but I can't remember the name.
The hostel was okay, although it was being partially renovated so was messy and noisey. We had to share a room with these two girls from England and Wales, they were pretty dead on, and didn't mind if we smoked out the window.
We walked through part of the red light district... it was fucking scary. They all looked like transexuals. I couldn't wait to get out of that place..
We also went to the Amsterdam Dungeon which was an absolute waste of money. It wasn't even a real dungeon, and not scary at all. I had bought this class poster of The Offspring which was taken like years ago, and you had to leave all your bags behind before you went on the dungeon tour thing. And after it my poster was gone. The manager gave me a free poster though, which I'm going to give to Doyle. It is the wanted poster of Sirius Black from Harry Potter.
I also bought a Ché Guevara bag, a Ché Guevara lighter, a Bob Marley flag for Doyle, a Scarface jacket for Doyle, a glass pipe which broke, and some other presents for my mum, granny and aunt.
We also bought some mushrooms on Tuesday night. Fabio and I got 20g each of Mexicans, and the woman in the shop gave Joe 35g by accident, and he didn't even realise until after he had eaten them.
My trip was pretty good. They hit me the fastest and I just felt really tired and giggly. Fabio's didn't really hit him, and Joe was totally fucked. We went to The Dolphins and sat downstairs, and the paintings on the wall were moving SO much. It was insane.
On the train into Amsterdam.
Weird singing christmas tree in the airport. First random thing we saw.
Joe in Noon.
Gerard rolling a joint in Easy Times.
Fabio toking in Easy Times.
A building in Leidse Plein.
A statue in Leidse Plein.
Gerard and the statue in Leidse Plein.
A tree in Leidse Plein.
Waiting for a tram.
The Rijksmuseum.
Sitting in Vondelpark.
Fishtank in a restaurant.
In The Kadinsky.
A street near the Leidse Plein.
A building near our Hostel.
Another building near the hostel.
And another..
Not sure where this was taken..
In the hostel.
Cool picture on the window of a jewellery shop.
Joe wearing my hat (that I lost).
A church near the hostel.
Snowy street near the hostel.
A cool bus we saw pulling into the street.
Weird thing outside a shop.
I have no idea what this is.
The sky behind my sunglasses.
The mess in our hostel room.
Joe.
Me handing Joe his bag.
The coffeeshop whose name I can't remember.
Gerard roling a joint inside that coffeeshop.
Joe toking in that coffeeshop.
The table in the coffeeshop.
My mushrooms.
Joe saying bye to his bed.
On the train home :(
AND some stuff I forgot to say, on the christmas night at about midnight when we were walking back to the hostel, these two Australian guys with backpacks came up to us and were like "do you know where Wanningstrat is?" And we said "yeah that's where we're going..." and they said the Inner Amsterdam?"
The name of our hostel! They were in the room beside ours. And they were fucked on mushrooms. They invited us to go take mushies with them, in the red light district, which would have been fucked up so we declined, even though we really wanted to take some.
One of the guys was weird.. said something about having a "strange sexual encounter" in some othr country.. I didn't say anything back.. The other guy seemed friendly enough though.
We also found this kick ass shop with Shpongle and Infected Mushroom albums. It had some gorgeous clothes but it was all so expensive.
I'm going to update my greatest journal about the whole drug experience in more detail, if anyone wants to read my boring rants then go there later..
OH and I got a little bit of weed back over with me :D
We tried Skunk, Jamaican, K2, Silver Haze, White Widow, Northern Lights, White Dolphin, Thai and some Polm, it was all so fucking nice except for the Thai really.
The first coffeeshop we visited was called Noon. It was okay, small and comfortable but I felt like the guy who worked there gave us a funny look when we walked in. Also they had MTV on... But it was sweet anyway.
Then we went to another one called The Dolphins, where they sold the White Dolphin. That place was cool, there were a few steps up to the doorway, and in that room were a few tables with vapourisers and the walls were made to look like it was under the sea. Then it had a downstairs part with loads of cool sofas and really amazing paintings on the walls.
The next one was also a bar called Easy Times, just up the street from Noon. It had a much better atmosphere than Noon, and Bob Marley pictures on the walls and Reggae playing on the radio.
We were staying in a place near the Leidse Plein which is kind of just an area of restaurants and things. So we didn't get into the actual city centre until the third and last days. While we were there we went to a coffeeshop called the Kadinsky, which was tiny but chilled out and had good music. We were in another one too but I can't remember the name.
The hostel was okay, although it was being partially renovated so was messy and noisey. We had to share a room with these two girls from England and Wales, they were pretty dead on, and didn't mind if we smoked out the window.
We walked through part of the red light district... it was fucking scary. They all looked like transexuals. I couldn't wait to get out of that place..
We also went to the Amsterdam Dungeon which was an absolute waste of money. It wasn't even a real dungeon, and not scary at all. I had bought this class poster of The Offspring which was taken like years ago, and you had to leave all your bags behind before you went on the dungeon tour thing. And after it my poster was gone. The manager gave me a free poster though, which I'm going to give to Doyle. It is the wanted poster of Sirius Black from Harry Potter.
I also bought a Ché Guevara bag, a Ché Guevara lighter, a Bob Marley flag for Doyle, a Scarface jacket for Doyle, a glass pipe which broke, and some other presents for my mum, granny and aunt.
We also bought some mushrooms on Tuesday night. Fabio and I got 20g each of Mexicans, and the woman in the shop gave Joe 35g by accident, and he didn't even realise until after he had eaten them.
My trip was pretty good. They hit me the fastest and I just felt really tired and giggly. Fabio's didn't really hit him, and Joe was totally fucked. We went to The Dolphins and sat downstairs, and the paintings on the wall were moving SO much. It was insane.
On the train into Amsterdam.
Weird singing christmas tree in the airport. First random thing we saw.
Joe in Noon.
Gerard rolling a joint in Easy Times.
Fabio toking in Easy Times.
A building in Leidse Plein.
A statue in Leidse Plein.
Gerard and the statue in Leidse Plein.
A tree in Leidse Plein.
Waiting for a tram.
The Rijksmuseum.
Sitting in Vondelpark.
Fishtank in a restaurant.
In The Kadinsky.
A street near the Leidse Plein.
A building near our Hostel.
Another building near the hostel.
And another..
Not sure where this was taken..
In the hostel.
Cool picture on the window of a jewellery shop.
Joe wearing my hat (that I lost).
A church near the hostel.
Snowy street near the hostel.
A cool bus we saw pulling into the street.
Weird thing outside a shop.
I have no idea what this is.
The sky behind my sunglasses.
The mess in our hostel room.
Joe.
Me handing Joe his bag.
The coffeeshop whose name I can't remember.
Gerard roling a joint inside that coffeeshop.
Joe toking in that coffeeshop.
The table in the coffeeshop.
My mushrooms.
Joe saying bye to his bed.
On the train home :(
AND some stuff I forgot to say, on the christmas night at about midnight when we were walking back to the hostel, these two Australian guys with backpacks came up to us and were like "do you know where Wanningstrat is?" And we said "yeah that's where we're going..." and they said the Inner Amsterdam?"
The name of our hostel! They were in the room beside ours. And they were fucked on mushrooms. They invited us to go take mushies with them, in the red light district, which would have been fucked up so we declined, even though we really wanted to take some.
One of the guys was weird.. said something about having a "strange sexual encounter" in some othr country.. I didn't say anything back.. The other guy seemed friendly enough though.
We also found this kick ass shop with Shpongle and Infected Mushroom albums. It had some gorgeous clothes but it was all so expensive.
I'm going to update my greatest journal about the whole drug experience in more detail, if anyone wants to read my boring rants then go there later..
OH and I got a little bit of weed back over with me :D