WEED, DRINK AND A HANDY-CAM, ALL OF WHICH ARE LEGAL IN AMSTERDAM!

LONG OVER-DUE: I AM WELL AWARE, BUT HERE ARE MY AMSTERDAM FLICKIES NONE THE LESS:

PRESIDENTS AND ARSEHOLES, BEERS AND CHEERS.

DISCOVERED A PAIR OF STOWAWAYS OUT ON THE DECK, WITH CONTRABAND TO SHARE.

NEVER THE SEA-DOG, IT QUICKLY BECAME TOO MUCH FOR TIMI.

SHREWD TACTICS SAW GIM AND MARY-JANE THROUGH CUSTOMS WITHOUT ANY DIFFICULTIES.

REEFER MADNESS AT A BELGIAN PIT-STOP.

A BEAUTIFUL DAWN BROKE UPON SAFE ARRIVAL IN AMSTERDAM, INSTIGATING INNER-TURMOIL AND THUS A DISTINCT CHANGE OF BEHAVIOURS AMOUNG THE FORMERLY WAYWARD GROUP...


WE THEN RAN INTO A GANG OF CONFUSED BUT, ALL THE SAME, SNAP-HAPPY TOURISTS.

NEW ACQUAINTANCES IN TOW, WE DECIDED TO LOOK FOR STARBUCKS AS THE PARTY WERE ALL, BY NOW, FEELING A LITTLE PARCHED.  NONE IN SIGHT WE SETTLED FOR ONE OF AMSTERDAM'S MANY INDEPENDENT COFFEE SHOPS.

TIMI, LIKE THE REST OF US, SOON FELT THIS WAS A MISTAKE AS COFFEE WAS SPARSE AND DRUG ABUSE: RIFE, IN THE ESTABLISHMENT WE HAD CHANCED UPON.

NOT MUCH LATER, SEB BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE ADVERSE EFFECTS AND SHOW SIGNS OF DEMENTURE AFTER COMING IN TO CONTACT WITH A STRAIN OF CANNABIS KNOWN AS 'ELEPHANT' BY THE LOCALS WHO MERILY BLEW GREAT PLOOMS OF ITS SMOKE, FILLING THE ROOM.

THE END.  I REALLY DO WISH I HAD TAKEN MORE PHOTOS AS YOU MIGHT THAT I HADN'T FICTIONALISED THE TALE SO MUCH, BUT TRUTH IS: THE WHOLE TRIP IS SOMEWHAT OF A BLUR, I DO REMEMBER THOUGH THAT I ENJOYED IT VERY MUCH, AND WITH ANY LUCK I'LL RETURN BEFORE THE YEAR IS OUT!

PEACE.