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Marijuana or Mushrooms?

For many visiting Amsterdam the word marijuana, or one of its thousand slang terms, appears somewhere on their itinerary. For now at least, it's completely legal for consumption inside one of the many coffee shops around town. I feel fairly confident that if you're reading this, there's little to no chance that the effects of this plant are a mystery to you. Nonetheless, your time with 'Mary Jane' will certainly vary - depending on what you buy and how you choose to ingest it. In general however - you're probably in for a happy time.

ezine 45 - April/May

People like to collect things. Most of the time it involves something mundane with a great amount of arbitrary value assigned to it. You know - things like cards, coins and stamps … I almost fell asleep typing that. Telling someone you collect stamps is one of the best verbal sedatives in existence, right behind tax law and the history of the lima bean. It's therefore highly entertaining to hear of new and different things that people like to collect - things you'd never expect - especially if they sound erotic. I recently learned of one such hobby gaining popularity in the backpacking world. It's called Flagging.

ezine 44 - February/ March

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The truth about the weed pass, it's about time!

The city, the train station, even just saying the name itself carries with it a certain high. A visit to Amsterdam is its own kind of drug, one that millions of people are dosing themselves with annually. And what a rush it is. Tripping on "AmDa" (a street nickname for the city that I made up for the purposes of this article) will hit you hard, leaving you breathless and wanting more. It's euphoric.

However, like any good drug, there's a media smear campaign against it. A conservative idea has surfaced that's trying to sully the image of the beautifully sinful city we all know and love. Sure, maybe the purchase of a ticket to Amsterdam should come with a disclaimer, but it should be something along the lines of...

As members of the staff of the Pig we have our favourite places to go to in Amsterdam and we like to share them with you. If you want to know where our favourites are located just click on one of the icons below our favourite places in Amsterdam.

Show the favourites on the map or click on one of the icons to view them by category.

 

Yummie for my Tummy!

Uptown Kitchen

The Flying Pig is proud of the fact that we have a self service kitchen in all of our Amsterdam Hostels..  which is kind of unique here in Amsterdam!  

Our Kitchen’s are fully equipped so you will be able to cook up something nice.. if you have the time of course. So if you have proudly whipped up something in the Pig kitchen and want to share it, this is to place to gloat. Also improvised Free-food-shelf recipes are more than welcome!

If (sadly) you are not cooking at The Pig and you want to help out your fellow kitchen clumsy Piggies you can

drop some recepies on our facebook wall

The best ones will be put onto our website .