What time is it there?!

......For the benefit of the team at UniChem and anyone else who has ever seen the DVD called Fish! as part of management development and team building, it was filmed at the Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle. To ensure that I got the most of from the training and to see the ‘enthusiasm’ in action, I made a bee-line for the exact location. It was great fun and they do really throw 5lb Salmon around. It would have been fun to see them drop one but they seem pretty slick at the fundamentals of throwing and catching, probably something to do with the American fascination for baseball and learning at a VERY early age. The whole thing is a real spectacle. The monkfish needed pointing out with its’ own introductory sign!! It was also attached to a rope when pulled, jumped to unsuspecting punters.

The whole market was a fish frenzy with some of the biggest prawns that we have ever seen. We bought a few and rustled up a prawn/pasta dish for tea ... when in Rome! Flowers are also in abundance here so if you want Fish and Flowers, this is the plaice(!) to come.

Near the market is also the home of Starbucks - as tourists we took some pictures of the old shop front but we didn’t join their many millions of clientele.