Capitol Hill Seattle

Sorry folks, I've not bothered with an update each day this week, been busy... but just so you don't feel left out I will fill you in on my activity over the last four days.


Thursday 18th:
After a lazy start I headed out to have a look around SAM (Seattle Art Museum) on 1st Avenue. It has a collection of African Art, Northwest …

Seattle! Home of grunge and Starbucks! Yes, we found our Mecca! In fact we stumbled upon it on the first day as we drifted with the crowd along Pike Place Market. There it stood... in all it's dark green glory... with a Beatles tribute band playing 'I Feel Fine' outside... with only three members. I did feel fine and we had a great time looking …

... back in the freezing cold and dark. Back at hotel bag had shown up thankfully so we quickly changed and walk/ran to Capitol Hill to meet friends of a friend, Pete and Jackie in a great Italian restaurant where we had amazing pizza before heading to ...

... , no whip'.) I had arranged to stay with a couchsurfer, Emily, before I came so, armed with directions, I sweltered my way up Capitol Hill to her apartment. It was a fantastic location, just 5 minutes walk from downtown and I was given free run of the ...

... a bizarre state of affairs it turns out that they live in Berkhamsted!  What a small world!  They were stopping in Seattle for a couple of nights before heading up to Anchorage for a mini-cruise and trip to Denali National Park.  We ...

... 18th May Alison: After a great time at the ball game, Paul dropped us off at Jules and Emily's gorgeous classic Seattle house in Capitol Hill. Their little girl Lucy who is almost 2 took a great shine to Rachel and they played very nicely together. We ...

... live seafood tanks.  We walked through Pike’s Place Market (didn’t see any fish thrown, though), Pioneer Square, Capitol Hill, Union Station, and even some of Belltown.  A short hike down to the beach at Discovery Park was ...

... or saturday night the nightlife would be good. On my final night I met up with James and we went to Capitol Hill which is the gay part of Seattle. We checked out a decent bar and saw some nice women but they were all quite young students. After leaving ...

... advantage of the free food at the hostel and stuffed ourselves silly with tacos... Next day we headed up to Seattle's village on the hill, Capitol Hill - very cool and more funky young folk hanging in coffee shops glued to their Apple Mac's! ...

... en del av charmen. Plus att klockan var runt sju och alltså inte så mycket folk än. Tror det är mer röj där vid tiotiden! Capitol Hill har dock ett par landmärken man måste se. Vi kollade in Jimi Hendrix-statyn, lite bronsade danssteg på gatan, ...

... for what seemed like hours in Kinokuniya and Uwajiyama, we hopped into a cab and headed for the Victrola coffee shop in Capitol Hill. we wanted to check out the gay neighbourhood and the Victrola seemed interesting enough. It's a cool little indie ...

... a very cozy room which was located in their basement apartment. Jen and Raymond’s digs were situated in Volunteer Park, near Capitol Hill, walking distance to the city centre. Our hosts were very nice and we enjoyed talking to them about traveling. ...