Seattle Public Library

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 …

After 2 buses and a further shuttle bus and 8 hours later we arrived to a very sunny Seattle.We were very worried about the location of our hotel we had read really bad reviews about the area being really rough, however we needn't have worried!! The area had been cleaned up, there was a derelict hotel opposite but that was over 8 lanes of the …

... check in at Seattle's OLDEST skyscraper, awesome in its time but now the short-stuff Smith Tower, and our BRAND-NEW Public Library, which is drawing rave reviews from all over the world for its innovative design. All of these attractions were within ...

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... hill, lou considered buying some clothes from a punk shop , decided against it, and headed back downtown to have a look at the Public Library - think this is the first library we had both been into since University, but wow, it looked awesome!! We ...

... able to do things I wanted ie my blog, upload photos etc because I couldn't afford the usage fees. I had tried the public library route but most of them also charge or you can only get limited access ie half an hour per day which isn't ...

... and walked around and I got to see the infamous fish market from where the Fish philosophy was inspired. We then went to the public library which was a very neato building. Geometric and modern to the max. We wandered around in there for a bit and ...

... Kaffee. Ueberhaupt war heut ein sehr kulinarischer Tag. Dann gings frisch und froh die 4th Avenue entlang, unser erstes Ziel war die Public Library. Wir waren etwas zu frueh da, mussten aber noch Briefmarken besorgen (ich glaube, das war Tores Idee, ich ...

... town to the main shopping area that we hadn't seen and had a wander, stopped for lunch beore heading to see the Seattle Public Library whic h was pretty outstanding 10 floors of very modern design with a viewing deck at the top.  We settled in for ...

... , we realized that Seattle was much hillier than we had thought.  We took the monorail back downtown to visit the Seattle Public Library, but learned that it was closed that entire week due to city-wide budget cuts.  Naturally, Rachel was very ...

... a smidgen of sunburn from sitting on the top deck of the boat. In between these activities, we hit the Seattle public library (here's a newspaper article about the building), which is an amazing structure and facility, although I have to ...

... moment!) and immediately took over navigation; leading me through streets and squares, past unique Seattle sights such as the Seattle public library and the Rainier Tower/U.S. Bank Centre (580 feet/ 177 meters) (Yes, Centre is the correct spelling; it ...