I recently embarked upon a disorientatingly short excursion across the country to Seattle, ostensibly for work, but spent most of my waking hours gazing out of the hotel window, observing the mechanical and human traffic in the streets below: omnibus, quaint old tram, newfangled monorail, passenger car, motorbike including sidecar, pedal bicycle, pedestrian, infant perambulator and possibly even sedan chair, although I may have dreamt that last one.
Unfortunately, I rarely ventured outside myself. Confinement to a bright and beige mezzanine function room, listening to horrendous bores drone on and on about the patently obvious was the order of the day, as usual. Oh how I wished we could all board one of those buses or trams to the famous Pike Place fish market and then fling flanks of smoked salmon at our colleagues' heads all day. Perhaps we might actually have accomplished something and made the trip worthwhile.
I love the image of a bunch of guys in suits throwing fish at each other's heads.
Posted by: Anne | December 11, 2012 at 12:30
That definitely looks like a European town centre.
Posted by: Laurent | December 12, 2012 at 04:40
KJR, Seattle radio, used to play the silliest song there, when I was a kid...it went, "Bluest skies you've ever seen, are in Seattle"...This of course was an inside joke because Seattle is the original, "Grey Havens." Tolkien must have visited it before he wrote Lord of the Rings.
As to Pike Place, PETA has been trying to get the fish throwing stopped, stating that it is brutal and inhuman to treat dead fish in this way. Do they think the fish somehow feel it?!
Sorry you didn't get out to Pacific Center, go up the Space Needle, visit the sci-fi museum, glass museum, and ride on the old Mono-Rail. Tho maybe it is good you gave the latter a miss, it has been known to catch on fire.
Posted by: Giric | December 13, 2012 at 16:41
However you got a lovely shot of my childhood stomping grounds.
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Posted by: Lost Cafe | January 27, 2013 at 22:29
Laurent you're definitely wrong I'm afraid.
There is no other monorail in the world like Seattle Center Monorail. Seattle definitely isn't in Europe :)
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