Back from amsterdam...not what I expected

[Guest]

Thank you Ronley! That's quite the compliment. I wasn't really paying attention to my punctuation when I posted. My punctuation's fine when it needs to be. I'm glad you enjoyed my story. I have a considerably longer account of my trip to the 'Dam on here somewhere.

haha damn i thought he was talking to me and wrote the same thing about my puncuation being good when it needs to be haha

 

[glock23]

LOL. Let us know how it goes with the job hunt bro. I did the cook thing for a while, but it totally wasn't for me. Then again, I was cooking for hundreds, even thousands of inmates at the time.

 

[Ronley]

Sorry Glock, I was referring to Bottomdog, although your story is well written too. And I am also concerned now about that girl with the bruised arm.

 

[Deft]

Ronley, I used to date a girl who lived in NYC, I hate the place! Too busy and commercial mostly, there are some nice places in manhattan though but I much prefer Boston/Cambridge.

 

[glock23]

Thanks Ronley. Now I feel like a real dumbass. I used to live in NYC. Times Square is still really seedy. Port Authority is like one-stop drug shopping. I'll never forget the time I saw someone show a store owner his weed. The store owner whipped out a bag of coke and a huge knife. It was like show and tell.

 

[Guest]

I really enjoyed the Amsterdam write-up, really good to read others experiences of the place, somewhere I've had both good and bad times, but mostly good. I once got hassled several times a day for a whole two weeks I was there by this one tall homeless looking African guy, on my last day there, with a fever and feeling terrible he hassled me and I lost my head and whacked him in the mouth and if I hadn't grabbed him, he'd have gone straight into the canal. Not too clever of me as it was almost directly outside the door of the grasshopper on the corner and just a few doors up from the police station next to hillstreet blues. Luckily there were no cops in the car park about 25 metres away, just a couple of parked cop cars, the bouncers at the grasshopper laughed, the guy looked pissed off, waved his hands about and shouted a bit, i just shrugged and walked off, went into the Coin and rolled a fat one and reminded myself never to loose it in a foreign city, the guy could have pulled a knife or something. Ah well, don't bother me when I am so ill all I want to do is go home and lie down, but my fllight is still 9 long hours away and it's cold and raining and I just want to be warm and cosy.

The girls are always fun and you;re dead right, they treat it all like a big joke, there are some beautiful, stunning women, usually the eastern european and italian ones are gorgeous, but the big, brash, vocal African ladies scare me, sometimes you take detours to avoid the stretches of windows full of those huige African mommas, the ones that shout at you.

One thing I with always remember with a smile is watching four drunken northern english lads (sounded like they were from Yorkshire) wetting themselves laughing at an inflatible rubber sheep in a sex shop window, one was outraged - "wot the fook wud ya do wiv one of those!" It was really funny but I guess you had to be there.

Never made it into a sex show, although once had a long conversation with one of the young guys in suits that stand outside enticing folks in, he described the whole shebang, it was so funny to me at the time as he explained in that Dutch accent "so, you see, she has three cocks in her, one in her poosy, two in her azzz!"

Good tip about the Cannabis College, never been in there, have to pop in as I never had a serious conversation about growing apart from at the Cannabis Cup. I remember Old Pink thinking (well I guess he was) that I was a bit wierd when I wandered into the boutique last year and tried to ask about different versions of Northern Lights but kept forgetting what I was saying due to having just accidentally blasted rather too much of my brains out with a vapouriser hit of Amnesia Haze at Amnesia on the next canal over.

Thanks Ronley. Now I feel like a real dumbass. I used to live in NYC. Times Square is still really seedy. Port Authority is like one-stop drug shopping. I'll never forget the time I saw someone show a store owner his weed. The store owner whipped out a bag of coke and a huge knife. It was like show and tell.

Lots of places the guys who run small stores are the ones into black market stuff. In Bradford there were was a time I was in a corner shop when a guy walked in and produced a couple of large bars of hashish wrapped in plastic out of his coat packet and proceeded to have a loud argument with the shopkeeper about the price of them. Then again, I worked 8pm to 8am, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays as a radio despatcher for a taxi firm and the office was in the seediest part of town, saw all kinds of horrible things, everything from a young hooker injecting herself in the groin on the ripped broken old pool table in the back of the cab office to a guy have a concrete paving slab broken over his head on the pvement outside the window, the bit that sticks in my mind was the speed with which the dark almost black blood ran in a tide across the pavement towards the gutter.

And you wonder why I chose to move back to the little rural town I grew up in? Life may be quite boring, but its pretty safe.

 

[Ronley]

Times Square is still really seedy. Port Authority is like one-stop drug shopping.

Overall though New York is quite safe, We went to Harlem and it was really wonderful to walk around. The whole city is friendly, helpful, crowded.

I dont know about Port Authority, we did not go there, and especially not to score anything.

 

[glock23]

Where in Harlem did you walk around?

I love New York. It is friendly and helpful, but it can also be pretty damn crazy at times.

I don't score at the Port Authority, but if you're lucky, there are outstanding deals to be had. One thing though. There are cops EVERYWHERE!

The Cannabis College is great. I talked to an English guy there for about an hour. Learned a lot about TFD. I'd love a pack of their Original Haze, but I'm pretty broke. I have lots of seeds on hand too. Going to start some Federation Hawaiian Sativa later. I only have 5 seeds, so I hope some of them pop! A lot of people want this strain.

 

[Guest]

HAHA yes the guy decribing the show! that I remember! he was all shifty about it while he was telling me.. "she gets this bananna and some people from the crowd-" looks both ways "eat it out of her pussy"

of course i had to go in! dont mean it to sound so uhh...vulgar i know this isnt a sex board but other people must have heard this guy...i cant believe you didnt go in there...after talking to a lot of locals in the bar they would say stuff to me like "I was talking to this one tourist and he told me he came here just for the coffeeshops" i told her thats why i came and she thought i was stupid and i came across another person telling me the same thing how they met someone that came to holland just for the pot...like it was weird or somethin i thought it was funny because all ive been around are people wanting to go for the coffeeshops

i couldnt imagine punching anyone over there but then again im not a big guy id probably just run away haha...I was gonna mention those bigger black girls in the window are my favorite! the ones that shouted at you and stuff...i didnt think they were hot but they were entertaining!..isnt it weird there are no guys in the windows? i guess girls never have to pay for it

 

[Harry Gypsna]

i reckon when i finally make it over il do a tour of the dam itelf for a couple days then go somewhere else, id imagine that theres some good coffeeshops in towns all over NL, and probably a lot more chilled out( which is my thing really lol) with less tourists.... but as i say i will definately "Do the Dam" for sure when i finally get off the bones of my arse again lol, i mean i couldnt go and not for example nip in to see old pink in the shop, and go to the cannabis college an the hash museum(unless in confused ad theyre 1 and the same??) a dnt heres othr non canna things id like to check out like the van gogh(and thats not pronounce go!!! it more like gok but softer and a gutteral sound like some arabic consonants) lol sorry went off on a tangent there, and thered be the obligatory bulb mission for my granny and other straight gardener relatives and friends.
I really dont know what to expect but i know when i do finally get over it will be memorable to say the least.....
Forgot haarlem, ill have to go to willie wortels, id love to stay in Nol's hotel...

 

[Rosy Cheeks]

id imagine that theres some good coffeeshops in towns all over NL, and probably a lot more chilled out( which is my thing really lol) with less tourists....

You're quite right. And what's particular with Holland (IMO) is that while small communities in many countries are retarded, conservative and hostile to strangers, Dutch small towns are easygoing, open and friendly. You can pretty much smoke a joint together with the village elders in any rural place. Holland is so close to everything that you rarely get a backwater mentality. Wherever you are, you're no more than one hour away from Amsterdam or Rotterdam, two hours away from Brussels, three or four hours away from Paris, London and Berlin, etc.

 

[Guest]

Book marked for later read.
Take care
BG

 

[kov]

i reckon when i finally make it over il do a tour of the dam itelf for a couple days then go somewhere else, id imagine that theres some good coffeeshops in towns all over NL, and probably a lot more chilled out( which is my thing really lol) with less tourists....

Yes there is very nice coffeeshops in Dutch towns all over NL(easy to google). Athmosphere much different from A'dam experience, zero tourists, relaxed Dutch people more open to friendly chat. Lots of colorful locals dropping by for a smoke... I recommend heartily.

rgds, kov

 

[glock23]

The Cannabis College and the Hash Museum are totally different places. I got retardedly high off Mother's Finest grown right at Sensi Seeds while at the Hash Museum. This Canadian guy kept filling up Volcano bags for me. When it hit me, I told him I had to go. I did. I went and stood in a corner of the museum and giggled my ass off.

 

[Guest]

^^^HAHA imagine if that was you drinking

"guy kept filling up shots for me. When it hit me, I told him I had to go. I did. I went and stood in a corner of the museum and barfed my brains out."

thats what it would be in america


If that doesnt make sense i guess my point is the worst that can happen is a laughing attack with pot but alcohol youre barfing all over the place...so dumb

 

[glock23]

Yeah, good point bd. A couple of fifths of alcohol can kill you. You need massive quantities of pot to kill you, but pot's illegal.

Hey, BD, did you think the Dutch were rude? They have a rep in some circles as being some of the rudest people in Europe.

 

[Farmer John]

All the dutch people I have met, even the police, have all been class a citizens and very polite and nice people, its all about how you act in their country, if you go there and get stoned silly and act stupid (like od on mushrooms and run down the streets doing something stupid) then of course they act rude...same thing everywhere...

 

[vodoochild]

Only time ive been rude to is for my own impatience. I, as an american, was not used to the life when i first landed. You settle in pretty quick tho. You give respect, you get respect. Thats always been my philosophy.

 

[Guest]

in my experience dutch people were very nice but....i dunno...theres nice people and bad people no matter where you go

 

[Guest]

I have met the odd rude Dutch person, but not many, mostly they are polite. I have to say, they are generally less patient and polite to Americans, that will hopefully change one day. It's more the culture difference than anything else, I've seen some Americans there be very loud and obnoxious because they weren't getting served quickly enough or something like that, but most Americans weren't like that. Not to offend anyone, but New Yorkers always seem too loud in Europe, but then I've got family near New York and over there they are almost all that loud.