Hello to you all. hope you are all well in this new age of covid. Many of you may have lost people you love, and if so i give my thoughts and prayers to you.
It will not help but i have a story.
I am now 45 years old. live in england. i graft hard as a bricklayer and like my beer a lot.
my first trip to the dam(18 years old) was on a shearings coach (only the brits will laugh at that) me and my 2 mates were the only ones under 60. but the night came and we had only one thing on our mind!!!! red light!!! however, swaying from the intended plan, we found a bar. to this day i will never remember where it was nor never forget it. a first experience at 18 years old drinking beer in a bar with so many 6 foot beautiful women around. it was my first time and unique. the city had already stolen my heart!! if my memory is true then it wasnt till our last day of 3 that we actuualy found the proper rld. i had my first experience......a blow job by a blonde. it didnt take long i seem to think!!! lol
i returned most years after, either as a first stop before backpacking elsewhere or just as a quick break.
If i have a point to this rambling then it is to tell you that Amsterdam will be forever in my heart and never leave me. you will all have to go and make your own Amsterdam because the one i knew and loved has long gone.
i am not trying to piss on anyones party and you make your own special memories. i would love to hear that.
my time in the Netherlands is mostly Den Haag now and an odd trip to Alkmaar.
Also booked Dortmund for late this year so any info would be cool.
cheers guys and have an Amstel for me when you can.

p.s for the old school -all those years ago i think the bar might have been called cool room, maybe towards Waterloopein.

I like this story, it reminds me of my own first trip to Amsterdam as a 21 y.o., who also had one thing on his mind and yet spent most of the trip drunk or stoned. Those were the days.

I'd two toxic year-and-change long term relationships behind me at that point, so I wasn't a complete noob but I was still pretty hopeless with women; for some reason in Amsterdam I felt more able to do what was available right on my doorstep in Edinburgh. My mates and I enjoyed ourselves at the Banana Bar and once a friend had shown the balls to help eat a banana out of a performing blonde Dutch girl's shaven haven right up on stage, I knew we'd reached a turning point in the debauchery level.

It was shortly afterwards that I went out and booked my first escort ever, a black MILF who ended up giving me an expert CBJ after a few positions, and one of the few women to make me come that way to this day. After that I never really looked back on the mongering and weed smoking front, but it became more of a UK thing. Despite the pivitol role the city has had on my private life, I've only been to Amsterdam three times as an adult, though I've got a loose plan for a 4th trip in late 2021 or early 2022.

Good to see another Brit tradesman on here.....im a beer and weed loving chippy in the UK lol....I enjoyed your post....Ive only been visiting since 2013 and still cant work out why I didnt go sooner!!!!

I found Amsterdam quite late 2008 mid thirties.
My first trip was a local pick up coach £30 all in.
10hrs coach 10hrs in the town and 10hrs back.

No real research on the city.
When i first walked into the main area from dam square
i was like wow how they get away with this.
Since then I was hooked 4 trips a year for 10 years.

Travelling around Europe various red light districts Amsterdam has my fondest memories.

I really felt it watching lockdown videos and seeing the empty streets and lights switched off.

I wonder how it will be after covid.