Seattle

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(unten das Deutsche)

C says: We love this city and are not 'sleepless'! Ha ha!

Me again: It's true though, we've got a fantastic hostel with a fireplace with comfy cushion area and a wood effect fireplace. So cosy- don't want to leave! Visited downtown Seattle yesterday and walked around all day today. We had Jalapeno Chilli and Strawberry Ice cream near a Lenin statue in a cool neighourhood called Fremont. Yum!

Donika now has a tummyache because she ate too much chocolate during our guided tour through THEO's chocolate factory-also in Fremont. It was really interesting to find out about chocolate production right from the plant and bean to an actual bar. We're planning to visit a Cocoa plantation in Costa Rica now! Seattle is the nicest city we've visited so far. Lots of lovely old buildings and 'oldy-worldy' signs in old-fashioned fonts-love it! Pike Place market on the seafront is an amazing world of smells, colours and noise! At the fish stalls, the fishmongers actually THROW whole fish out to customers in the queues. Crazy 😊

Tomorrow we're hiring a car and heading out to Mt. Rainier and then later in the week to Mt. St. Helens. Hurray!!! The people here have been SO nice and friendly. We've been blown away by how helpful and kind everyone has been. Apparently the US Northwest is known for this hospitality. 😊

Die schoenste Stadt, die wir bisher gesehen haben. Gestern haben wir das Zentrum gesehen. Pike Place Markt ist richtig toll, es gibt unglaublich viele Blumen und super billig. Ausserdem schmeissen die Fischverkaeufer von Zeit zu Zeit die Fische (echte und Kunststoff) ueber den Tresen. Sehr zur Freude der Touristen. Die Bibliothek ist architektonisch sehr interessant (Fotos folgen) und im Ganzen hat die Stadt sehr viel Charakter.
Heute (24.09.) sind wir den ganzen Tag gewandert. Wir haben nahe der Lenin-Statue Chillieis gegessen und nun hat Donika Bauchschmerzen, denn sie hat bei der Werksfuehrung in THEO's Schokoladenfabrik zu viel Schokolade gegessen.
Ab morgen gehts zu Mt. Rainier und Mt. St. Helens.

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Comments

[anna]

Hiya guys! Don, I'm sure I too would have eaten too much chocolate! I love your photos of Seattle Chrisu! (and your sleepless in seattle joke!) It must have been an inspriing place. Your travel blogs are great - informative and funny :) Looking forward to seeing you both in Dec xxxx

[Chrisu Don]

You cheeky monkey! Who says they are Chrisu's pics hey? Most of the digital ones are usually me as he's busy with the 'proper' camera! Although the architectural ones in Seattle were indeed mostly him! I have written a couple of emails to ur toadstall@hotmail account. Ru still using that one? Miss u! xx