Wednesday brought some good weather to Seattle, possibly for the last time on my trip, so I made sure to get out and about. First stop of the day was the Olympic Sculpture Park, which is run by the Seattle Art Museum and has a selection of sculpture by the waterfront. As this is near the "Seattle Centre" I walked over to there to take the monorail back downtown. From here I bought some coffee from the original Starbucks and drunk it sitting outside! (This time wearing a coat rather than just a t-shirt).
I then walked along another part of the waterfront past the ferries, ending up at Pioneer Square. This is the area where I stayed on my very first night of the trip. Back then, at night, it seemed a slightly dodgy area (and I had no idea that my hotel was 50 meters from the water) but in daylight it had a lot more historical and architectural merit to it. I also visited Powell's which is a famous Seattle bookshop.
From there I headed back to the Space Needle. This is obviously an icon of Seattle, and rightly so. The views from the top were magnificent - speaking to a guard there he said that some of the views were the clearest he had seen, particularly looking towards the Canadian border. You also do not realise how Sattle is surrounded by mountains until you are up there. Being Seattle, there was naturally a coffee shop up there, so I had a coffee as it gradually got dark, giving another view of Seattle at night.
Wednesday brought some good weather to Seattle, possibly for the last time on my trip, so I made sure to get out and about. First stop of the day was the Olympic Sculpture Park, which is run by the Seattle Art Museum and has a selection of sculpture by the waterfront. As this is near the "Seattle Centre" I walked over to there to take the monorail back downtown. From here I bought some coffee from the original Starbucks and drunk it sitting outside! (This time wearing a coat rather than just a t-shirt).
I then walked along another part of the waterfront past the ferries, ending up at Pioneer Square. This is the area where I stayed on my very first night of the trip. Back then, at night, it seemed a slightly dodgy area (and I had no idea that my hotel was 50 meters from the water) but in daylight it had a lot more historical and architectural merit to it. I also visited Powell's which is a famous Seattle bookshop.
From there I headed back to the Space Needle. This is obviously an icon of Seattle, and rightly so. The views from the top were magnificent - speaking to a guard there he said that some of the views were the clearest he had seen, particularly looking towards the Canadian border. You also do not realise how Sattle is surrounded by mountains until you are up there. Being Seattle, there was naturally a coffee shop up there, so I had a coffee as it gradually got dark, giving another view of Seattle at night.
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