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March 24, 2005 2

Seattle: Pike Place Market (Part 3)

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The most touristy place we went in Seattle. Like its abnormally clean downtown the fresh market is also ridiculously clean too! I grew up in environment where groceries were bought at fresh market and I hated the stink and filth. But I appreciate a clean one like this. ^^;; The market located right by the […]

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March 24, 2005 2

Rose’s Chocolate Treasures (Seattle: Pike Place Market)

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We wandered to a chocolate shop near Pike Place Market. It has such cute and beautiful interior. It’s decorated with lots of cool old early 20th century chocolate ads and posters (you can buy some of them). The place sell so many different types of chocolate and chocolate related things, the ones on the counter […]

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March 23, 2005 8

Il Bistro (Seattle: Pike Place Market)

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Pike Place Market is Seattle’s famous landmark (will be in Part 3 Seattle entry). There was this dark alley descend down to a dark Italian restaurant where we would dine. The stone pavement, old flyers & poster plaster all over wall (very cool, almost a deliberate artful collage), parked bike leading to more narrow sketchy […]

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March 22, 2005 1

Seattle – Freemont (Part 2)

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We took a bus from downtown for about 15 minutes and arrived at Fremont, possibly Seattle’s hippest neighborhood. It is my favorite place at this trip. It is full of hipsters, record shops, used book store, lots of cute boutiques and coffee houses, artists’ studios, even a weird statue of Vladimir Lenin ^^;; (I dunno […]

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March 21, 2005 6

Seattle – Belltown (Part 1)

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We had a wonderful weekend at Seattle! Even though it started off stressfully: typical national flight nightmare, this time it’s Alsaka Airline…never ever ride with them again. First I got stuck in traffic on my way to the airport for 2 hours due to massive car accidents happening at the same time at all major […]

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