Monday, June 1, 2009

Some more pictures from Seattle

This is one of the fun things you can do to get to know Seattle in a short time. Take a Duck.
A Duck is an amphibian bus that will drive you around the streets and also on one of the lakes. :) Definitely an experience.
Here's the Duck driver. As you can imagine, the whole thing becomes a kind of a show. Italians would call it an "americanata" and at the start of the tour I was afraid, that this kind of fun show will become a bit exaggerated and tiring. But fortunately this was not the case. In fact we were overwhelmed by jokes and songs the driver was singing, but it was somehow not too much and really enjoyable. A truly american experience.


At some point the duck driver becomes the duck captain and the bus slides into water.
Plenty of people in Seattle seem to have houses literally on water.



Some more pictures from walking around the town after the Duck trip.

New type of T-shirts in US.
This is a picture from one of the nicest old bookstores I've ever seen (located at Pioneer Square). Small notes under books give a short overview of what those are about. A really nice idea. :) In general, the number of bookstores and choice of books is incredible! I would spend hours there!
No Seattle without skyscrapers :)

That's another great thing in Seattle - the bike holders in front of the trolleybuses. :) Never seen this before.And there he is! The Sheriff. Andi, I knew, you were around!

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