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Hom_Corleone wrote:I'm going in August (and coming back the day of the Tilburg gig!). Staying at the Kras. Whats the deal with this place then? Do you rate it?

It really is lovely. Nicest hotel I've ever stayed in.

boudicca wrote:

Hom_Corleone wrote:I'm going in August (and coming back the day of the Tilburg gig!). Staying at the Kras. Whats the deal with this place then? Do you rate it?

It really is lovely. Nicest hotel I've ever stayed in.

I paid £270 for 2 of us for 3 nights. Bargain.
And I particularly liked the fact they have a pillow menu!

Nicest hotel u ever stayed in? Now I'm excited.

The Hotel Krasnapolsky is classic and established in 1866. It features heavily in literary history surrounding the Stijl movement at the start of the last century. A more gruesome role has been as part of a assasination of Eastern European criminals where the Bulgarian Konstantin Dimitrov was shot in broad daylight seconds after leaving the hotel in 2003. So watch your back kids

...and excitement turns to fear. Nice.

Karst wrote:the Bulgarian Konstantin Dimitrov was shot in broad daylight seconds after leaving the hotel in 2003. So watch your back kids

s**t, I went there in 2003.

Another good thing is, the rooms have wooden (or laminate or whatever it's called) floors, so you can sit and spin yourself round and round on your arse.

Not that I have ever behaved so childishly, of course....

Well, I'm off tomorrow!

W00t!

markfiend wrote:Well, I'm off tomorrow!

W00t!

Enjoy (Not that you need to be told that )

....and thanks for the tip about telling the Vondel that they were recommended - I'll definitely give that a go

Bah, Appepr to be grouonded in englanfd untill i get a passport.

can't get a passport untill i change my name and won;t change my name untill i can talk to the nice side of the family.

Anyone seen ;em? :S

I'm back...

...give me an hour or so to trawl through a week's worth of threads to see if I missed much...

Damn, I forgot you were going and I missed the "I'm off" a few days ago.

Hope you had a blast mate

I'm going to get round to photobucketing some photos. For some reason about 3/4 were taken in the zoo.

Zoos are great places for children and stoners. Probably not so much for the animals like.

The photos are up on photobucket (slideshow) or photobucket (normal)

Funnily enough, three quarters of the photos were taken at the zoo... anyway, what I can remember:

Saturday, 9 July

The flight's at 7 am so we have to get up at 4... Nice.

IIRC most of the day was spent drinking and smoking.

Sunday, 10 July

Canal-boat today. It's well handy; you can hop on and off wherever you want (well, within reason. It tends to be a good idea to wait for it to stop.) So we went round the Leidseplein, and a bit of the Jordaan, and probably the Waterlooplein too. Plus the obligatory smoking and drinking.

Monday, 11 July

With the canal boat, it's still valid until noon the next day. So we hopped on to get to Amsterdam Centraal to get a train to Haarlem and Zandfoort (beach resort). Haarlem is mostly shut (I didn't know that Monday tends to be half-day-closing in the Netherlands--or more accurately, whole-day-closing) So a nice day at the beach was had. And when we got back to Amsterdam, guess what? That's right folks, smoking and drinking!

Tuesday, 12 July

The zoo! See photos.

I think it was today that we met Scott, the crazy Alaskan guyâ„¢. He bought 3 grams of De Rokerij's strongest weed, and then asked for help skinning up. Just 4 joints from 3 grams! Madman! And he let me and Kerry have one just for helping him skin up! He was off to a poker competition and "needed something to help me concentrate". (Like that will work!) He was (or claimed to be) a professional poker player...

Wednesday, 13 July

Back home. But we still had most of the day in Amsterdam for more drinking. We thought it might be a good idea to lay off the smoking though, otherwise customs at Leeds Bradford airport might have been rubber-gloves time.

I feel the need to point that your Springboks or impalas or some such are in fact Gemboks. Springboks are fall smaller, have a more golden coat with a white underbelly and taste great with a cranberry sauce.

jo and myself are having a few days in "the dam" after the sisters gig in tilburg

i shall peruse your "guide" later. ta

hallucienate wrote:I feel the need to point that your Springboks or impalas or some such are in fact Gemboks. Springboks are fall smaller, have a more golden coat with a white underbelly and taste great with a cranberry sauce.

Thanks Lucien.

Short-term memory and all that I'm lucky I remembered that they were anythingboks.

markfiend wrote:For some reason about 3/4 were taken in the zoo.

I have that problem too...most of my Bali/Oz photos were of random wildlife and Melbourne Zoo

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:

markfiend wrote:For some reason about 3/4 were taken in the zoo.

I have that problem too...most of my Bali/Oz photos were of random wildlife and Melbourne Zoo

freaks

hallucienate wrote:

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:

markfiend wrote:For some reason about 3/4 were taken in the zoo.

I have that problem too...most of my Bali/Oz photos were of random wildlife and Melbourne Zoo

freaks

want to see *my* giant tortoise photo?

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:

hallucienate wrote:

Brideoffrankenstein wrote: I have that problem too...most of my Bali/Oz photos were of random wildlife and Melbourne Zoo

freaks

want to see *my* giant tortoise photo?

read this? The guy is waist high.

hallucienate wrote:

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:

hallucienate wrote: freaks

want to see *my* giant tortoise photo?

read this? The guy is waist high.

giant tortoises rule