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Seattle Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Seattle, United States
Alaskan Sojourn - The Inside Passage
... during the gold rushes. As I was to learn on the hilarious, and highly recommended, Underground Tour at Pioneer Square, Seattle was a buzzing ground for entrepreneurship, not to mention scams a-plenty, to help "equip" the hapless miners heading for ...
Joking on the phone on my day of arrival my ...
... to find it throwing it down yesterday morning. After finding the library I had a quick look in the Lonely Planet guidebook for Seattle. Apparently they have 55 days of unmolested sunshine a year, the other 310 days have some form of fog, mist or ...
Night before departure
We are packed and ready to go. It has been a long day for me. I went in to work today, then spent the rest of the day packing and running errands in preparation for the trip. My bags are quite light compared to the India trip. I brought too much water ...
Thames to stern
Ended up chatting at the barb with a London couple out on the town until it was time for dinner at the hotel's River Restaurant. I went for the four course tasting menu: Scottish beef carpaccio with matrons glades, celeriac remoulade and preserved ...
Seattle - Heathrow
Our journey is about to begin and we can't wait to land in Sierra Leone on Saturday ...
Arrive Seattle
... We missed our connection in San Fran due to customs issues (I had to renounce me residency which took ages). Finally arrived in Seattle at 7:30pm (was supposed to be there at 3pm). Had a quick dinner with Jason's parents and brother before going to ...
Is it a little cold or is it just me!
Where to start... You probably didn't know this, but I have only warn my jacket for about 6 days during the last 2 months, you can probaby guess where I was going with this, so I won't even say it. I got to drive my car today, I sure did miss it. ...
Fun Scams from Around the World
... - This may sound paranoid to some but we can't stress the rule enough. Strangers don't just walk up to us on the streets of Seattle and start talking to us all friendly, doling out unsolicited advice. Why would it be normal for them to do it in Shanghai? ...
5th day - Yay America!!
Prince George to Seattle 699miles Well this leg of the journey was maybe the most stressful as far as a mantra of "GET TO AMERICA, GET TO AMERICA!" We sped all the way to the border than sat for almost 45 minutes until they let us in to Washington, ...
Staying with Jules and Emily in Seattle
Sunday 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 ...
Meeting up with the Bro
We left Toronto really early and flew over the Rockies to Seattle. Travis, Virginia's sister-in-law’s step brother (who we had met skiing a couple of year’s ago) came to meet us as we were going to be staying with them - Travis, Laura, ...
Seattle Arrival
... there are approximately 86 Starbucks down town and some are just across the street from others, kind of crazy. Starbucks bought out "Seattle's Best" another coffee shop. We also had coffee at the very first Starbucks near Pike's Place. A walk ...
4 Nights in Seattle!
... a shop front that looks like a fish and chip shop, and inside it smells like oily burger patty. One thing I loved about Seattle and the surrounding areas is the beautiful houses – they are similar to what you see in Canadian photos – with ...
Seattle, USA
... ik wel zou kunnen wonen. Vancouver heeft de Olympische Winterspelen van 2010 toegewezen gekregen. Vanuit Vancouver zijn we naar Seattle afgereisd. De laatste etappe met de camper. De camper hebben we ingeleverd in Everett, een voorstad van Seattle. ...
Pike Place Market
We really enjoyed going through this market, because it is so different from the high desert we are used to. I am really impressed with the gorgeous flowers, but the fresh vegetables and fruit are pretty impressive too. Check out the ...
Sipping in Seattle
... I ate for dinner: Fresh seafood How much we had to pay in parking for 2 days: $62 At first, I was a little upset at Seattle with its expensive hotel, crazy parking fees and the amount of traffic because of the Seahawk pre-season game, but I got over ...
Going home after the best week in Amsterdam
... time. It was great to spend time with locals instead of tourists and learn about the differences between the Netherlands and United States. I was reminded that where we sat drinking beers Thursday night that we were doing it at 30 feet below ...
Seattle to Victoria on the Clipper
Greetings all, We have arrived in Victoria, Canada. We arrived yesterday from Seattle, Washington on the Victoria Clipper, a jet propulsion ferry. The crossing took us through Puget Sound, it was calm and cool. We saw a few Dolphins but ...
Old Salty!
Greg made a "friend" on the plane. The aisle seat in our row was empty. We dreamed of room to stretch out, feet space, a place for books, jackets, etc, we've got this nine and a half hour flight made! Literally 4.23 minutes before the flight was ...
Hurricane Erin
... we visited the first REI store with Jesus, the famous fish market with Erin, and even spent a day with Erin at South Seattle Community College where (among other places) she works as a Spanish professor. The grad schools I applied to in December ...
Day 1 - From Seattle To Bangkok
... T-shirts and teddy bears with hockey sticks that I thought it should, and the place was crawling with mostly pleasant Canadians. By 1PM Seattle time we were on our flight to Seoul, Korea in route to Bangkok. We had heard good things about Korean Air ...
The land of grundge / starbucks (May 11th)
... 11:30am but the mission wasn't over yet. We had to lug all of our luggage to the hostel. The planet recommended 2 hostels in Seattle, we phoned one and secured a reservation but decided to walk into the other one too to weigh up our options. It turned ...