Original Starbucks Seattle

Entry containing 6 photos titled: Pike Place Fish Market, Rooftop View from Hard Rock Cafe, Space Needle, Downtown Seattle (view from Waterfront), View from our Apartment (Mt. Rainier)

Avant d'aborder Seattle, j'aimerais souligner le défi du passage des douanes parce qu'en fait on a eu droit à la fouille complète!


Petite mise en contexte :
Je suis parti avec Marius, un allemand très sympathique qui voulait se changer les idées avant de repartir en Allemagne, et avec Jessica, qui travaillait à Vancouver …

Today was quite possibly the earliest rise we have had on our trip (cause we didn't go to bed when caught the plane from Toronto) with us getting up @ 5 to catch the bus from the hostel to town, to be able to catch the bus from Pacific station (which was one of the old trans Canada railway stations, so it was an awesome looking station, but didn't …

Day 6

Today we left our Tacoma hotel (with the gorgeous view of Mt. Ranier) and headed on to it's big sister , The Emerald City, Seattle. The city and the port are huge, it reminded us of very much so of San Francisco with its skyscrapers and steep hilled roads. It took some time, but eventually we found a parking garage that wasn’t …

Entry containing 5 photos titled: At breakfast, Dropping off shopping, Eloise, Susan + Hannah, Caricature, Eloise shopping

Why is everyone 'Sleepless in Seattle', excuse the cliche? The home of the original Starbucks has a Coffee shop in nearly every corner. My theory is their coffee intake must be significantly higher than many other cities.

Seattle was a weekend away to escape from the monotony of job searching a re-claim a bit of the spontaneity that was …

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 …

Why is everyone 'Sleepless in Seattle', excuse the cliche? The home of the original Starbucks has a Coffee shop in nearly every corner. My theory is their coffee intake must be significantly higher than many other cities. Seattle was a weekend away to ...

... asks. "I hate that. I hate that, but I realize you're always going to have critics," Schultz replies. The original Starbucks opened in 1971 on Seattle's sea front. It was a small store with no big plans. "Starbuck" is the name of a character in ...

... metres, Meg had made several new friends and been told to keep on smilin' twice. We also found the original Starbucks store.  The amount of Starbucks in Seattle alone is amazing, there seems to be one or two on every street.  It is interesting to ...

... , including the Space Needle, The Water Front, Green Lake, Ballard, Golden Gardens (with Mike Beard!), Seattle Center, Pike Place Market, The original Starbucks, The Gum Wall, and Kerry Park. Issaquah, Rattle Snake Lake and Snoqualmie Falls:  The ...

... we checked out the market, which was full of colour, fresh fruit, and vibrant fresh flowers. Across the road from the market was the original Starbucks! It was VERY busy so we didn't go in. It had kept it's original look from when it first opened due to ...

... . This was the first time we realized what a coffee crazy town Seattle is. We asked a waiter at the restaurant where the original Starbucks was and he just laughed at us. There were coffee shops everywhere--some of them very good and some of them just ...

... , etc. Joining the Amazonians and Microsofties, there's Boeing and Starbucks to join the fray. The original Starbucks started out as a small coffee shop in Seattle's famous Pike Place Market (right round the corner from where I based myself) in 1971, ...

... things, most of which I couldn’t recognise but it was lovely even though neither of us could finish it. We found the original Starbucks just outside the market in Pikes Place that was opened back in 1971. Who would have guessed that there would now ...

... stand where the fishmongers throw the fish about, to get the fish from one end to the other. Awesome. We also saw the original Starbucks shop. Completely different to nowadays Starbucks' with no chairs and tables so just a walk-in-walk-out service and a ...

... who was working and how people could afford it all?!  I suppose it makes perfect sense with such a cafe culture that Seattle is the home of the original Starbucks!  I didn't go to see it as I'm really not a coffee person so it wasn't very ...