No.341, September 2025
No. 341 - September 2025
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The Editor's Bit
We didn’t get a single entry for last month’s Cover Competition, despite my encouragement while I was out delivering the last Stun. Was it that difficult? I thought it was easy-peasy, but I could be biased because I lived nearby when I first came to Amsterdam and it’s close to where I live now.
It’s the bridge over the Korte Prinsengracht that links the Haarlemmerstraat & dijk, but we would also have accepted Eenhoornsluis or Unicorn Lock, so there are no Honourable Mentions being handed out this month,
We’re back to torentjes/turrets this month: If you know the location of the torentje on this month’s cover, let me know and you could get an Honourable Mention on this page next month! Contact details are on page two, or you can tell me in person if you meet me in a bar, but if that’s the case, make sure I write it down because I can be a bit forgetful.
It was great to see Sail back in Amsterdam after a 10 year break due to Covid, but don’t worry, you won’t find a single tall-ship in this Stun, not even in the background. That could have been different if the three-hour booze cruise I was booked on had cruised, but the boat broke down just as we were setting off and despite every effort taken by the crew and various mechanics who came by bakfiets and boat to help, we only got as far as a ladder up to Prins Hendrikkade. At least there was booze! After three hours, I abandoned ship; it didn’t look like we were going anywhere soon and I didn’t fancy using the smallest toilet I’ve ever encountered again. Roll on 2030!
Once I was back on dry land, I had to visit a few bars and I’m glad I did. It’s unheard of me to be in town so early on a Saturday, so I got to see friends who keep normal hours and take photos of them.
Somebody who doesn’t keep normal hours is US radio DJ ‘Big Al’ Sells. Why fight jet-lag when you can party at the Cave’s 30th anniversary party and it’s only 5pm in Texas! I’m glad I caught up with him; I wanted to apologise for banning him from our Cover Competition for being a know-all. The ban was lifted a while ago, but if he did give me an answer for last month’s cover, I couldn’t hear him over the metal band playing in the Cave.
Our Premier Predictions League has got 42 of you hoping to win the prize from our friends at Coco’s Outback. Are you one of them? The first look at this season’s table is on page 17.
Photos, stories, music, football, jokes and a crossword: all of our usual stuff is here for you this month, so enjoy your September edition of the Amsterdam Stun.