The Traveling Hungryboy

Whoa, this place is huuuuuge! (Plaça de la Ciutat de Bruges, +34-963-829-100) It's much bigger than La Boqueria in Barcelona. And as you can imagine, they were selling everything here, be it fruit, vegetables, meat (both of the fresh and cured variety), conservas, seafood, spices, as well as a tapas place too.

The veggie stands had calçots at this time of year. Perhaps what was most interesting to me was the guy selling live snails in a bucket. Many of them were climbing out of the bucket, which impulsively made on think that that had better act quickly to keep them in. But wait...they are snails after all



What got me the most excited though was the seafood section, and even in there people were specializing. The shellfish guys lot of beautifully red shrimp, scampi, and lobsters (and sea urchin and percebes!), while there were a couple of guys slaughtering live eels, as well as some looking at fish. This place is just beautiful.

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Mercat Central de València in Spain-The Traveling Hungryboy