I love this photo with the texture of the old buildings in the backgrouind . There are 2 kinds of "coffee shops" in Amsterdam. One is the cannabis smoking allowed type that also sells coffee. You know which they are just by walking by. Stand by the doorway long enough and the second hand smoke will give you a buzz The other kind is a regular coffee/food shop called a brown "Brown cafes are named for the color of their walls. Back in the day when people smoked cigarettes inside, the smoke, the candles and the coffee along with the fuggy enclosed warmth keeping out the bitter winter winds tended to turn the walls a distinctive brown color. These days the smoke is gone but the walls have stayed brown. And those bitter winter winds still blow along Amsterdam’s canals at the height of winter."