Vegetarians are not terribly well catered for, but most restaurants will have at least one meat-free dish. Beer is the staple drink, served cool and with a head of froth so big it would start a brawl in an Australian pub. Double and triple strength Belgian beers are very popular in the Netherlands - beware. Anyone who's worth their weight in bongwater knows that you can buy wacky tabacky in shops in the Netherlands. Marijuana is not officially legal, but you are able to buy grass, hash, loose joints, smoking paraphernalia and seeds in registered 'coffee shops'.
Magic mushrooms are also available.
This doesn't mean that every Dutch person is a pot-head. There's no shortage of hard drugs around, but you're likely to be ripped off if buying from street dealers, and be warned that the penalties are as severe as in other European countries. Although the Dutch have the cute habit of calling anything higher than a speed bump a mountain, the Netherlands is largely a flat and soggy bog. Most of its land has been reclaimed from the sea over the centuries and the drained polders are protected by dykes, very few of which are plugged by little boys' fingers. More than half of the country lies below sea level and only in the south-east Limburg province will you find hills.