Here's a tip if travelling by bus from Vancouver to Seattle: go to the toilet before going through US customs. They don't provide any, and you'll get in big trouble if you even ask to use a toilet. Coming back to Canada is no problems - clearly a more advanced civilisation, they have duty free shopping, toilets, automatic doors, and even smiles at the border. :)
Once in Seattle, we kept getting confused about what to call the Seattle Space Needle.... was it "Space Needle" or "Sky Tower", or .... "Spy Needle". :) So we just laughed to ourselves and called it the "Spy Needle" the rest of the time.
The Pike Place markets are fascinating, with lots of interesting trinkets, great seafood, and the first ever Starbucks shop. We did go there, as cheesy as it is, and I even drank the "Pike Place" special roast, which tasted to me only slightly less bland than the terrible Starbucks "House" blend. It's just a really ordinary, tasteless coffee.... but I guess that's the way the Americans like it. And obviously they love it, there's a Starbucks on virtually every city block in downtown Seattle.
We found a ticket box that sells same day discount tickets for concerts and theatres in town, and we bought tickets to see "Puppetry of the Penis" ! What a laugh. The audience was predominantly female (surprise surprise), although it is pretty much bloke humour.
Seattle is also filled with many homeless people, and there's an amazing number of people who walk around the streets having serious conversations with themselves. Or maybe we're crazy because we can't see the invisible people they're arguing with....?
That aside, we enjoyed our two days there, and were very happy to be back in Vancouver.
More later, Matt
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