{"id":1035,"date":"2011-12-22T16:32:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T16:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-travel-blogs\/old-tigers-blog\/first-trip-to-amsterdam-1969\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15T23:36:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T23:36:38","slug":"first-trip-to-amsterdam-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-travel-blogs\/first-trip-to-amsterdam-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"First Trip to Amsterdam (1969)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll start with my first trip..<\/span>
1969..I guess it was in july..i got sick of my Dad’s alcoholism<\/span>
packed a rucksack..and hitched to Amsterdam..no problem..<\/span>
Woodstock mentality..at least 1500 hippies sleeping outside<\/span>
in Vondelpark..there was a place called Paradiso..where gigs<\/span>
were held almost every day..saw a rockband there called Brainbox..<\/span>
still remember it..Amsterdam was great..the love-ins..sit-ins..<\/span>
my first joint..met a beautiful Dutch Indonesian girl who lived on a<\/span>
houseboat(=Bella)on Brouwersgracht..no electricity on that boat..candles..\"\"<\/span>
after 2 weeks Amsterdam..my gypsie blood took me back home..<\/span>
I worked a bit in the black(painting some house)and left for Italy..<\/span>
end target was Venice..but i ended up in Dubrovnik (Yougoslavia)<\/span>
Hitch hiking in Germany was easy..Austria as well..Italy O.K..<\/span>
Yugoslavia..well..some Germans took me from Gorizia (Trieste)<\/span>
towards Zadar..lovely coastline..and dirt cheap food..<\/span>
it was still great Yugoslavia under Tito..I usually slept rough..<\/span>
I recall Dubrovnik as a very clean city..went back up via Beograd..<\/span>
autoput (highway) to Zagreb..and back home via Austria-Germany<\/span>
it was 1970..and I planned a trip to the U.K..Scotland-Ireland..<\/span>
I’ll tell you all tomorrow about that adventure<\/span><\/p>\n

P.S..Paradiso Amsterdam still exists..it’s on Weteringschans..<\/span>
https:\/\/www.paradiso.nl\/web\/English-Agenda.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.dubrovnik-online.com\/english\/english.php<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll start with my first trip.. 1969..I guess it was in july..i got sick of my Dad’s alcoholism packed a rucksack..and hitched to Amsterdam..no problem.. Woodstock mentality..at least 1500 hippies sleeping outside in Vondelpark..there was a place called Paradiso..where gigs … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}