Your experience of bar hopping in Utrecht, sounds way more interesting than my trip to IKEA there. I had many friends who told me that Utrecht was the best place for that though, so I'm not surprised to read this :)))
I can relate to the what you said about not taking pictures because of the cold. I did that on weekends of museum-hopping in Amsterdam. Haha! I look back at those memories as fun ones now, but I hated the cold, terribly at the time.