The first couple of hours are the hardest for Hanan Yafai when waking up before sunrise each day for a month.
Thoughts can often turn to longing for another hour in bed, she says, sitting inside the Coffee Lodge café on Lodge Lane, Toxteth, especially when caffeine isn’t on the agenda. A flat white is normally the drink of choice but it is something she won’t taste for the next four weeks during Ramadan - personally choosing to cut out the stimulant altogether.
“I will miss my coffee, but there is nothing like that first one after 30 days,” she adds. “It is just amazing. You taste all of the different textures, the flavours - you haven't had it for so long so your palette is so fresh.”
