Hello from Seattle!!!!!
Cheesy post title, sorry. But yes, we are in Seattle, staying in the Green Tortoise hostel which has hot and cold running internet and no cockroaches so far. Actually it's pretty nice for a hostel, and I have the top bunk.
We got here by train this morning, took about three hours Portland to Seattle. Everything was grey out the window, and we kept taking very high railway bridges over rivers we couldn't identify.
The Green Tortoise is up the road from Pike's Place Market, so we spent a good while exploring that this afternoon. It is semi-famous, mostly because in the fish market section they throw fish to each other (to speed up serving and show off). The market is huge and sells everything, I love that kind of place. We had lunch in a bijou Chinese cafe overlooking Elliot bay.
This evening was spent mostly wandering aimlessly around downtown Seattle, it was a bit depressing quite frankly. The place is pretty dead on a Sunday evening, and there were so many places that wouldn't let us in cause of a No Minor policy. We couldn't even go bowling! Bloody America. Well, we saw some good bits of downtown, including the Space Needle. I think we'll see it again tomorrow.
We got here by train this morning, took about three hours Portland to Seattle. Everything was grey out the window, and we kept taking very high railway bridges over rivers we couldn't identify.
The Green Tortoise is up the road from Pike's Place Market, so we spent a good while exploring that this afternoon. It is semi-famous, mostly because in the fish market section they throw fish to each other (to speed up serving and show off). The market is huge and sells everything, I love that kind of place. We had lunch in a bijou Chinese cafe overlooking Elliot bay.
This evening was spent mostly wandering aimlessly around downtown Seattle, it was a bit depressing quite frankly. The place is pretty dead on a Sunday evening, and there were so many places that wouldn't let us in cause of a No Minor policy. We couldn't even go bowling! Bloody America. Well, we saw some good bits of downtown, including the Space Needle. I think we'll see it again tomorrow.
posted by susie r at 10:53 PM
2 Comments:
I hope you're making a list of things to do and see in Seattle that you can later relate. It's suddenly occurred to me that I know absolutely nothing about anywhere, see.
Chuh, what is she like? She'll probably rent out your place to dirty hippies.
Nick, I will get pretty detailed on my Seattle blogging so you can have a good idea about what I found was worth doing. We asked around quite a bit over the best places, so I can pass on recommendations from many sources. I'll also add some links to photos once they're all uploaded.
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