You eat with your eyes before you eat with your mouth and stomach.

As I walked into the shop I was engulfed by the shine of the thousands of hues in the wooden boxes, shelves and even barrels. It was like walking into a child’s dream.

A warm, sugary scent mixed with the wooden fragrance caressed my nostrils and I took a deep breath as I closed my eyes and savoured the moment. A child’s dream, there was no other way to put. Dreams of jellies and puffs covered with snowy icing sugar, hard sweets that slowly dissolve onto your tongue like a candy bath, smooth chocolates of all shapes you can imagine - umbrellas, clowns, ribbons, bears, even Santas - melting onto your fingertips that you lick like lollipops. And, of course, lollipops of thousands of swirling colours. Soft caramels that stick to your teeth and make you push your finger into your mouth to take them off. Like an innocent child will do because nobody will judge.

My favourites are the soft chocolates-coated toffees. What a festive sensation. There is something fine and glamorous about a toffee. A mellow sensation as if you are trying something forbidden to everybody else.

I took another look around. The smell of wood and candy combined. Yes, this was a long lost childhood's dream.