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September 20th 2007
Published: October 3rd 2007
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Yup, its truly that easy to know when your in the red light district.
Arriving in Frankfurt in the mid afternoon, you can easily see just how effiecent the Germans are... EVERYTHING in the airport is automated. We rented a small little 90HP Ford Fiesta, and although quite wimpy we still managed to top out at 186km/h down hill on the autobahn. This was the start of our true Europe trip... driving through Europe with no restrictions or timelines. About 4 hours later and over 600kms covered we arrived in Amsterdam. For myself it was my second visit but this was Hawk's first. With the streets glowing red and the smell of marajuana in the air we checked ourselves into the Bulldog Hotel... the same place I stayed during last years visit. I highly recommend this 5 star hostel.

On night one we tasted some of the fresh locally grown columbian mushrooms. They come professionally prepackaged with instructions and the "energy" shop was only 5 feet from our hostel. We toured the streets of the red light district and window shopped for a few hours checking out what pleasures (in all shapes and sizes) Amsterdam had to offer. Finally getting back to the hostel we sat watching "The Big Lebowski" about 3 times until
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5AM.

Sleeping in the following day we headed off to the famous pub crawl which I did twice last year. Being my third time on the crawl my fee was half price and such a bargain. We actually did this two nights in a row which meant that on my next pub crawl tour in Amsterdam it will be FREE!!!

So, a little tired from 2 heavy nights of drinking we just chilled out at the hostel taking in the atmosphere of a scented haze through out the hotel bar and played some chess... this usually ending in stale-mate; i don't think either of us have any chess tactics.

The next day we headed off to the Heineken Experience, yes that's correct... another brewery tour. But, this one was like no tour we had done before... it was quite impressive and entertaining as far as a beer tour can get.
Check out our Heineken beer song video at: Heineken Experience

Later we checked out the local theatre plays, this involved a ribbon show, a banana show, many costumes and many more positions to perform sex. This was my first live sex show... unless I count Kings Cross
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A scenic shot of the Canals found throughout Amsterdam.
with Meeres being spanked by a stripper on stage wearing his tattered underwear, but that's a different story.

The last day we found a cheap Internet cafe where we slaughtered several orcs and some undead in a few matches of Warcraft III while savouring some Hawaiian mushrooms.

The next morning we strolled down to our car, packed up and drove off... destination: the beer capital of the world, Belgium.


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Heineken Drums

Playing on the Heinken drum set.
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Heineken Anyone?

This is as artistic as I could get in a brewery.
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Rabobank

My first Rabobank ATM I found in Holland. This is the bank I worked at in Sydney.
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Menu

The prices for a box of 30 grams of fresh mushrooms in Amsterdam.
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Having a Drink

Stephen and Kris.
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Flavours

Describing the expectations based on a point system for the mushrooms.
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The House Of Beer

An outside shot of where gold is produced.
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Next Door

Exit the hotel, turn right, take 4 steps, turn right. An "energy shop" in the red light district, specializing in freshly grown drugs.
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Beer Instructions

Instructions on how to brew Heineken beer in their brewery.
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Absinthe

Ohhhh... the colors!
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Brew That Beer

Hawkshaw brewing up the next batch of Heineken for us.
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DJ Hulksmash

Buy your tickets quick!!!
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Shroomz

Ah, our first purchase in Amsterdam :)
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FEBO's

A place with very cheap chicken burgers but sold through vending like machines.
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4 Pack

A pack of 4 mexican pre-rolled joints.
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DJ Pender

See him live at the brewery tonight!
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Taste Testing

Taking a drink of some fresh Heineken.
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Bikes!!!

A three story bike parkling lot.
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Port-A-Piss

These come out all over the red light district on weekends.


7th October 2007

you two in amsterdamn??
haha i could only imagine the trouble that you two got in over here, shrooms ,MJ and the redlight district....oh my oh my

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