Despite its reputation as a city deluded with rain, Seattle actually has excellent weather. Summers are warm and dry, with day time maximums usually in the mid-20s C (70s F). Summer days typically have beautiful blue skies, occasionally with cloud co…
The Seattle Underground is only assessable by taking the Underground Tour from Pioneer Square. The underground is the result of bad city planning in early Seattle. Originally the city was built on a flood plain, causing toilets to back-flush every hi…
SkyCity is a revolving restaurant at the top of the Space Needle. The views are suburb, alternatively overlooking the Puget Sound, downtown Seattle, Belltown, Queen Anne and Lake Union. A full rotation takes 47 minutes, so you'll probably go around t…
Pike Place Public Markets are the biggest tourist destination in Seattle. The markets are the oldest continually-operated public farmer's markets in the US (over 100 years old). The markets are quite large, over 9 acres, with lots of speciality shops…
The Seattle Cheese Festival is held every year in Pike Place Markets in Seattle over a weekend in May. It has free tasting of many different cheeses and other gourmet foods and drinks. It is really just a good reason to visit the Pike Place Markets a…
Woodland Park Zoo, near Greenlake in Seattle, has been open since 1899 and since then has won more Best National Exhibit awards than any other zoo in the US, except Bronx Zoo in New York. Woodland Park Zoo has lead the world in providing full immersi…
Ballard is an interesting neighbourhood of Seattle. It used to be a Norwegian fishing village, but has long since been incorporated into Seattle. Tere are still lots of people with Scandinavian descent that live there, and the architecture is more o…
The motto of Fremont is "Delibertas Quirkas".
Fremont is a trendy and progressive neighbourhood in Seattle. It is a centre of Seattle counter-culture, called "the People's Republic of Fremont" or "the Artist's Republic of Fremont", and is full of …
Gas Works Park in Seattle is a public park converted from an old gasification plant. The Gas Works ran from 1906 to 1956, and was opened as a park in 1975 after extensive decontamination of the soil. The original gas works factory is still in the par…
Victoria is the capital of British Columbia on Vancouver Island. It is a great place to visit, the climate is warm and sunny and the stunning architecture is English Victorian era. Victoria is a short ferry ride from Seattle or a longer ferry trip fr…
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