Hi Roary A coffee shop is the name we give to the shops in Amsterdam were, believe it or not you can buy soft drugs, so you could have a chat but I don't know if they have coffee on the menu and if I really did see a happy American with a snake around his neck and ferrets in his pockets I would probably go in and introduce myself, presuming of cause the snake was stoned enough to keep it's distance, Might be fun, it would a first time for me. And we do need to laugh now and then otherwise we just could not keep on helping all those ferrets that need us Stephenie [Posted in FML issue 4338]