Well as veen said in the last Pubski I was in Amsterdam last weekend, but my brain was still a bit too stretched out to post about it.

When in Rome, do as the other visitors to Rome do - and it's hard to tell people what we got up to because my mind was almost constantly chemically impaired. It's a weird little city - weirder perhaps because its weirdness is normal and out in the open. We smoked a fair bit, and had several brownies (which I think I prefer, because smoking marijuana makes me sneeze for some reason). We also tried truffles at one point - a fairly low dosage out of caution, having never tried it before - which led to a twenty minute episode of me laughing at a hamburger. No strange visions, just a great mood and an inability to laugh as much or as loud as I wanted to.

I was actually worried when I got back that I'd never be compos mentis again, but I'm back to normal and back to plain old coffee and cigarettes. For my friend it kind of sucked; I have an incredibly low tolerance for weed, and as a result would become high quickly and stay that way for hours, while it took a lot more for her to feel anything and it didn't last as long. She also had to go through the weird and unpleasant - almost "non-edible" - truffles for a fat lot of nothing. I must have stolen her brain receptors somehow.

But we had fun - lots of wandering about the maze of canals; I never had as much fun meandering about a city. Went to a couple of museums, to some parks, to a big old windmill with a pub and a couple of places outside the centre (twice we were told we had come out to the "real" Amsterdam, so there's that.)

Oh, at one point we were wandering through a market and I saw a copy of Cloud Atlas for sale; it was only €1. I hadn't read it in years, and though I have to say it feels a little overwrought I'm enjoying reading it again. Anyway, this was written on the inside cover:

I have no idea what it says, but I love little things like that in books, even if I never write in my own for some reason.

I would've done a proper trip report about what we got up to with photos, but I've probably said enough and my friend was the designated photographer so I only have a couple of snaps at the moment.

Other than that I have little in the way of news, but no complaints either.