Coffeeshop in Amsterdam
Jul 16th, 2005, 09:56 AM
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Most "coffeeshops" will somewhere have a sign with the appropriate shape of leaf or some variant of yellow/black/red/green stripes or flags.
A conventional café will call itself a café, and you are more likely to hear Dutch or German 'Schlager'-style pop rather than heavy-duty beats. There may be lots of photos of regulars in party costumes, memorabilia of favourite sports teams, and/or a wall full of foreign banknotes. For the really traditional Amsterdam "brown café" experience, look for some combination of that special Dutch sort of swirly 18th-century-style script on the windows, lace café-curtains, lots of dark wood and carpet-patterned chenille table-coverings.
A conventional café will call itself a café, and you are more likely to hear Dutch or German 'Schlager'-style pop rather than heavy-duty beats. There may be lots of photos of regulars in party costumes, memorabilia of favourite sports teams, and/or a wall full of foreign banknotes. For the really traditional Amsterdam "brown café" experience, look for some combination of that special Dutch sort of swirly 18th-century-style script on the windows, lace café-curtains, lots of dark wood and carpet-patterned chenille table-coverings.
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