NETHERLANDS 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
(2015)
This was my first trip outside of my home country (without my parents)and this was definitely the first "trigger" for a huge desire for adventure.
This trip took place in my second year of college with 5 friends from my Engineering college.
As you can imagine, this was a wild 5 days in the Amsterdam city that is a paradise for fresh young people traveling together.
It also made me want to remember my stories so I started to write them in my notebook... Since then, everytime I take a trip I bring a different notebook with me to write about my experiences.
On this page I will share only one story from the day we arrived there. Let's go!
One joint later...
RED LIGHT DISTRICT- AMS, Netherlands
The following story is about our first day/night in Amsterdam. We stayed in an apartment room right in the Red Light District... where sex is buyable.
It was late, past midnight, and we went to Dominos Pizza to buy dinner. Then we stopped at a little bridge in the middle of the Red Light District to eat our Pizzas.
A few moments later a random guy approached us in a very friendly way. We talked a lot and then we asked him if he was able to sell us something "green"... he said- "At this time the coffee shops are closed but... give me 1 minute" and he left.
10 minutes later he arrived and put his hand in front of my friend and dropped "green" stuff into my friend's hand.
For free...
So we rolled and smoked it with our new friend from Ethiopia.
We only took two puffs each and... we got completely high 
Then our new friend took a small pipe and started smoking, I think, crack.
We asked him- "What is that?" and he said- "This is not for you guys...".
A few minutes later we were surrounded by our new friend, a Scottish girl, a guy dressed as a soldier that was arguing with the girl, a random guy that is a fan of F.C. Porto (football team from our college city in Portugal) and another man who was stealing random bicycles and selling them to our Ethiopian friend for 5€ each.
Some of my friends started to feel like we were in a strange situation so we left and went to our apartment.
When we arrived at the street of our apartment we heard Portuguese voices right above our heads... they were also Portuguese people and they were living in Amsterdam right in front of our apartment... one of my friends thought he was having a hallucination at this point. 
When we got inside our apartment, we kept socializing with the Portuguese people and throwing "things" from our window to theirs and vice versa... then my friend hit his head on the radiator and started bleeding.
That is all... I know it's only a random simple story but it was one of the experiences that stayed with me because it was my first impression of what it is like to travel...
Random Pictures from the trip
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
