Weekend Art Market in Roma
Browsing the various markets and weekend tianguis located throughout the capital is a favorite activity for visitors to Mexico City. One of my favorites is the Corredor de Arte Colonia Roma, a weekend art market that stretches along Avenida Álvaro Obregón in Mexico City’s colonia Roma Norte. The market is a pleasant place to explore and worth a visit whether you’re actually looking to purchase anything or not. Vendors, many of them the artists themselves, display a variety of crafts,...
February 12th, 2011 | Laura Nazimiec | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Art, coffee shop, Collectibles and Hobbies, market
Travel Back in Time at Café La Habana
If you’ve been looking for a place to plan your next revolution, Café La Habana might just be it. This longstanding coffeehouse in downtown Mexico City has become a well-known attraction. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara are rumored to have strategized and planned the Cuban Revolution while sitting at one of the tables in Café La Habana.
Café La Habana, Mexico City
Café La Habana opened its doors in 1952 and the interior of the building still appears as you might imagine it would have back in...
July 13th, 2010 | Laura Nazimiec | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: coffee shop, coffeehouse
The Netherlands and Drugs
... traditional cannabis grown in Morocco or Pakistan. The Dutch soft drugs market relies increasingly on home-grown cannabis. Depending on the quality, coffee shop owners pay between € 3,500 and 5,500 per kilo to cannabis growers.
In 2008, 720 Dutch coffeeshops sold some 255,000 kilograms of soft drugs, mostly grown in the Netherlands. Police estimate that only 20 to 40 per cent of the Dutch marijuana is sold locally. The bulk is exported.
The Dutch tax authority receives some € 400 million on...
December 28th, 2009 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: coffee shop, Just a Bit Weird - Fun & Quirky Places
Cannabis or Cappuccino in Coffee Shop De Kuil?
coffee shop De Kuil looks very much like a bruin café but is a coffeeshop aka hash bar.
Bruin (brown) café is the Dutch answer to what a Londoner would call pub. It is the place where people from the neighbourhood gather, gossip, snack and drink. The name brown café refers to the dark, often wooden interior and the smoke stained walls. This is the place to go if you want to drink coffee.
Coffeeshop can mean only one thing in the Netherlands; hash bar. It is a place where cannabis is openly smoked...
November 26th, 2009 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: coffee shop, Just a Bit Weird - Fun & Quirky Places
Chocolate crepes at Epoch Coffee Bar & Desserterie
A cold spell enveloped Hong Kong over night this week and has made me crave for all my favourite comfort foods! As I am in the middle of moving to outlying island Discovery Bay (map) and don’t have internet connection set up at the new flat, I find myself shacked up in coffee houses or anywhere I can steal a bit of wifi connection for just a few minutes. Today was especially colder than most days in the city and so I decided to seek refuge in one of my favourite places to gorge on yummy desserts....
November 18th, 2009 | Jessy DB | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: cafes, coffee shop, desserts, featuredarticle, Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars
Enhance Your Mind in Coffeeshop Dampkring
Dictionary definition of coffee shop:
a small, usually inexpensive restaurant where refreshments and light meals are served.
The Dutch joined coffee + shop and the new word coffeeshop takes a completely new meaning. The Dutch coffeeshop is a licensed place that sells hash, cannabis and marihuana.
Tucked away in Handboogsteeg, a narrow alley off bustling Kalverstraat is Dampkring Coffeeshop, a haven of haze or a circle of smoke as the name suggests.
Dampkring translates as Earth’s Atmosphere, but...
November 16th, 2009 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: coffee shop, Just a Bit Weird - Fun & Quirky Places, marihuana
Amsterdam Cannabis Cup Competition
Autumn is harvest time, harvest of marijuana buds. Produce may vary in quality. During the five-day Cannabis Cup Competition grass is tested on purity, buds are inspected and spliffs are tested on length and strength.
The Cannabis Cup is the largest marijuana festival in the world. Cannabis experts sample the latest varieties of pot and select the strain they like best. Hundreds of judges, people like you and me, indulge and taste the new harvest to find out which of the different weeds is the most...
November 8th, 2009 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: coffee shop, Events, featuredarticle, Just a Bit Weird - Fun & Quirky Places, marihuana
Writing on the Wall in Coffee Shop Hill Street Blues
Amsterdam has over three hundred coffee shops. They serve frothy cappuccino and fragrant tea, but that’s not why people go to coffeeshops. Dutch coffeeshops are places that sell hash and marihuana openly. This doesn’t mean that possession of drugs is legal in the Netherlands.
Possession of small quantities is decriminalised. Advertising marihuana is not allowed so you will have to go the bar and ask Mr Dealer for the menu, which shows a variety of weed and hash and their prices. On average...
October 7th, 2009 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: coffee shop, featuredarticle, Just a Bit Weird - Fun & Quirky Places, marihuana
New Cannabis Rules for Dutch Coffee Shops
The Dutch Government has decided to clamp down on cannabis use by tourists. Membership policy will be introduced to keep tourists out of the coffee shops. Starting next year, Dutch people wanting to buy cannabis products will need a special ID. These cards will not be available to foreigners and are designed to put an end to drug tourism to the Netherlands. At the moment possession of 5 grams of cannabis is decriminalised. In the furture, this amount will be reduced to 3 grams.
Cannabis Plant
The...
September 12th, 2009 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: coffee shop, Just a Bit Weird - Fun & Quirky Places, News
Mr Dealer Shows His wares
Green Place coffeeshop is a newcomer. It opened only four years ago and looks like an ordinary cafe. If you’re new to the weed scene, this coffeeshop is a good place to smoke your first joint. They also serve lots of different teas and hot chocolate. It is also a good place to stop if you don’t smoke pot.
After the introduction of the non-smoking rules on 1 July 2008, smokers and non-smokers cannot mix. That’s why Green Place has a separate area for smokers. Listen to a mix of...
August 11th, 2009 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: coffee shop, marihuana, pot, Restaurants & Bars, Shopping
Breakfast at Barney’s Coffeeshop
Start your day at Barney’s Coffeeshop at 7 am. Tuck in a breakfast of bacon and eggs. Smoke a joint afterwards while reading the morning papers. Barney’s is the only coffeeshop that sells a full Irish breakfast at this time of day (Barney’s is Irish owned). No need to come so very early because you can have your breakfast until 4 pm.
Barney’s consists of four outlets: the Coffeeshop, the Farm, Uptown and the Lounge. All are popular with the expat community and locals, but...
June 28th, 2009 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: amsterdam souvenir, coffee shop, marihuana, Restaurants & Bars
Coffee Shops aka Hash Bars
Coffeeshops are easy to spot. They all display a green and white sign which says coffeeshop. Dutch coffee shop sells cannabis and are licensed to do so.
If you have come to Amsterdam for the hash and drugs, it is good to know that possession of soft drugs is decriminalised in the Netherlands and anyone over eighteen is allowed to have 30 grams. Advertising marihuana is not allowed therefore there are no coffeeshop websites. When in a coffeeshop, ask for the menu and choose your favourite or ask the...
June 2nd, 2009 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: cannabis, coffee shop, hash, marihuana, pot, Restaurants & Bars
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