An early start.....

Visiting Birmingham Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable market proved to be an unexpected sensory experience! At 5am in the morning it felt very surreal to be in such a noisy, bustling environment, surrounded by crates of vivid, red skinned, pomegranates from Spain, sacks of gnarled French walnuts and boxes of fragrant Brazilian mangos.  The sellers and buyers made noisy deals over boxes of bright yellow lemons while fork lift trucks and wooden carts loaded with produce were constantly on the move. Few bacon butties and mugs of tea have ever tasted as good as my restorative breakfast in the market cafe!