Reply to: 5,000 stag trips canceled

[petergriffin]

You can thank Geert Wilders for that

Geert 'blonde bombshell' Wilders is a chum of Nigel Farage's, who seems to have a lot of admirers here.

[norrahe]

I have, it was last year and it was awful.


Yes, as long as I know smoking dope is not a crime in NL, but the council can enforce public order rules if you act strange. In the last few years there has been as increase in xenophobic attitude and not only towards the Brits but pretty much anybody who is not a native Dutch speaker.

You can thank Geert Wilders for that

[petergriffin]

In all my years of traveling to Amsterdam, I have never once seen a Stag on the ferry.

I have, it was last year and it was awful.

Will they tolerate people smoking joints outside the cafes, like smokers outside pubs in the UK?

Yes, as long as I know smoking dope is not a crime in NL, but the council can enforce public order rules if you act strange. In the last few years there has been as increase in xenophobic attitude and not only towards the Brits but pretty much anybody who is not a native Dutch speaker.

[OwlHoot]

BBC News - Netherlands judge backs cafe cannabis ban

I doubt people will go there just for the pancakes.

Will they tolerate people smoking joints outside the cafes, like smokers outside pubs in the UK?

[nomadd]

5,000 stag trips canceled

In all my years of traveling to Amsterdam, I have never once seen a Stag on the ferry.

I believe this story about 5,000 of them cancelling their trips is a fabrication.

I have sent a letter of complaint to the BBC. And VIZ.

[norrahe]

This is stupid. Now the tourists will have to buy drugs at the Central Station and anywhere in the Jordaan.

They already do

[aussielong]

The best legal drugs in Amsterdam are the strong mushrooms you can get. Much more fun than getting heavily stoned if you are not used to it.

[Diver]

Try visiting Iran...

[NotAllThere]

Are Belgian

Not the dutch ones.

[gingerjedi]

This is stupid. Now the tourists will have to buy drugs at the Central Station and anywhere in the Jordaan.

Last time I went the taxi driver that picked me up from the station gave me his card saying he could get anything I want and the streets are full of people looking for some guy called Charlie.

Stupid indeed.

[petergriffin]

This is stupid. Now the tourists will have to buy drugs at the Central Station and anywhere in the Jordaan.

[gingerjedi]

As far as I know it doesn't affect those of us who live in Germany (or Belgium), just drunken chavvy Brits (and smelly French)

As an upstanding EU citizen I should be OK then?

[AtW]

I have been to Amsterdam a few times - and generally I did not really feel it was full of stoned people

Try visiting Iran...

[norrahe]

I have been to Amsterdam a few times - and generally I did not really feel it was full of stoned people - yeah obviosly it is freely available so some were stoned but.. I prefer that to pissed up knobheads.

Although I do recall laughing at some fans when the Euros were held there - half of them were asleep in their seats watching the footy no doubt a cause of too much bear n cheeba!!

I think you'll find that the drunken idiots are on the Leidseplein and throwing up all over the pavement around the red light district. You see the stoned chavs hovering around the shops near centraal station but if you know which areas to stay away from then hamsterjam isn't bad.

[original PM]

I have been to Amsterdam a few times - and generally I did not really feel it was full of stoned people - yeah obviosly it is freely available so some were stoned but.. I prefer that to pissed up knobheads.

Although I do recall laughing at some fans when the Euros were held there - half of them were asleep in their seats watching the footy no doubt a cause of too much bear n cheeba!!