Portland and Seattle...
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...here I come. :) Off to the USA for a business trip in November - Portland for 4 or 5 days then a weekend of R&R in Seattle. Never visited either city before so if anyone has any recommendations for things to do (or fancies a pint or two) then feel free to share. I understand that there is a very good chance it will be damp. Being a Brit I should feel right at home.
visit the Portland "Needle". Park of Roses. The River Waterfront. If you have a chance, go to the Oregon coast.
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...here I come. :) Off to the USA for a business trip in November - Portland for 4 or 5 days then a weekend of R&R in Seattle. Never visited either city before so if anyone has any recommendations for things to do (or fancies a pint or two) then feel free to share. I understand that there is a very good chance it will be damp. Being a Brit I should feel right at home.
Oregon cost, and Olympic NP if you fancy such things and find the time.
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...here I come. :) Off to the USA for a business trip in November - Portland for 4 or 5 days then a weekend of R&R in Seattle. Never visited either city before so if anyone has any recommendations for things to do (or fancies a pint or two) then feel free to share. I understand that there is a very good chance it will be damp. Being a Brit I should feel right at home.
We've been having freakishly dry weather in these parts lately but November is usually storm season in the Pacific Northwest area so don't even bother with the umbrella, get a good rain coat with a hood instead; the umbrella will be miles away first gust of wind and you'll be marked as a tourist for even carrying it unless it's downtown between office buildings. When I was in Seattle the best thing I remember from the trip aside from the music festival was the Pike Place market which is worth a look definitely.
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...here I come. :) Off to the USA for a business trip in November - Portland for 4 or 5 days then a weekend of R&R in Seattle. Never visited either city before so if anyone has any recommendations for things to do (or fancies a pint or two) then feel free to share. I understand that there is a very good chance it will be damp. Being a Brit I should feel right at home.
If you're in Portland over the weekend the Saturday Market[^] is fun to visit. Lots of people watching and good food. Most everything sold there is junk but it's fun to take a look. You might also visit OMSI.[^] It's oregon's science museum and they usually have some fun things to see. Even their own real submarine.[^].
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...here I come. :) Off to the USA for a business trip in November - Portland for 4 or 5 days then a weekend of R&R in Seattle. Never visited either city before so if anyone has any recommendations for things to do (or fancies a pint or two) then feel free to share. I understand that there is a very good chance it will be damp. Being a Brit I should feel right at home.
In Seattle you of course have to take in the view from the Space Needle (provided it's not raining and cloudy and there is a view). The SciFi museum is worth a visit but I thought the Music Experience should have been named the Jimi Hendrix musuem, at least 70% is dedicate to him. Like someone else said, Pike Place Market is worth a look. Depends on how many days you have and if you have transportation but Mt Rainier is a site worth seeing as well as the surrounding rain forest. Yes, rain forest, only one in the North America.
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...here I come. :) Off to the USA for a business trip in November - Portland for 4 or 5 days then a weekend of R&R in Seattle. Never visited either city before so if anyone has any recommendations for things to do (or fancies a pint or two) then feel free to share. I understand that there is a very good chance it will be damp. Being a Brit I should feel right at home.
As someone else mentioned - don't bother with the umbrella. The wind will grab it and you'll have to pick it up in Nebraska. Tkae along a good raincoat, or plan to buy one there. I find that when buying clothing for a particular climate not your own, buying local is the best bet. In Seattle, the best place to stay is gone. It used to be the Red Lion at SeaTac; you rent your car, pull up to the signal at Hwy 99, and go straight thru to the parking lot. Great rooms, great rates, great food, and Maxis at the top of the hotel was a terrific place to unwind. A sad day for travellers it was, the day they changed hands. North from the airport is a Holiday Inn (on 99) where the restaurant rotates while you dine and providing a stunning niew of the Cascades. All the waiters and waitresses are wannabe actors and performers, and are required to spend a turn entertaining the house every half hour or so during their shifts. Most are quite talented. I recommend the Monkfish, if they still have it. Taste and texture are identical to lobster, but a third the price. Nearby, on the Sound, is a place I think was called Antonio's - 288th street, IIRC. It's a seafood restaurant and bar, and the place where young singles gather. If you're travelling stag I recommend it. All the women in Seattle are beautiful; it's my theory that the constant moisture keeps their skin soft and lovely, and other magnificent body parts well inflated and hydrated. In Portland I noticed first off that the bastards wouldn't let me smoke at the airport - that was when the laws first started changing to ostracize the innocent. Now it's everywhere, of course, as was predictable. The second thing I noticed was the preponderance of fruits and nuts. This is the land of Granola munchers. Be prepared to dine on bean sprouts and free-range cauliflower. There's nothing much there to make it enjoyable that I've found, but I've only been there a couple of times, and that briefly. Stop by and see my step-Mom if you would; I haven't been back since Dad died. Have a great trip, Rob. It's one of the most beautiful parts of the US... :-D
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...here I come. :) Off to the USA for a business trip in November - Portland for 4 or 5 days then a weekend of R&R in Seattle. Never visited either city before so if anyone has any recommendations for things to do (or fancies a pint or two) then feel free to share. I understand that there is a very good chance it will be damp. Being a Brit I should feel right at home.
If you rent a car while you are there, watch out in Portland for the bridges. I kept getting stuck in traffic and sent over the same bridge (which takes you almost across town) three times before I could get do DevDays a few years back :)
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...here I come. :) Off to the USA for a business trip in November - Portland for 4 or 5 days then a weekend of R&R in Seattle. Never visited either city before so if anyone has any recommendations for things to do (or fancies a pint or two) then feel free to share. I understand that there is a very good chance it will be damp. Being a Brit I should feel right at home.
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As someone else mentioned - don't bother with the umbrella. The wind will grab it and you'll have to pick it up in Nebraska. Tkae along a good raincoat, or plan to buy one there. I find that when buying clothing for a particular climate not your own, buying local is the best bet. In Seattle, the best place to stay is gone. It used to be the Red Lion at SeaTac; you rent your car, pull up to the signal at Hwy 99, and go straight thru to the parking lot. Great rooms, great rates, great food, and Maxis at the top of the hotel was a terrific place to unwind. A sad day for travellers it was, the day they changed hands. North from the airport is a Holiday Inn (on 99) where the restaurant rotates while you dine and providing a stunning niew of the Cascades. All the waiters and waitresses are wannabe actors and performers, and are required to spend a turn entertaining the house every half hour or so during their shifts. Most are quite talented. I recommend the Monkfish, if they still have it. Taste and texture are identical to lobster, but a third the price. Nearby, on the Sound, is a place I think was called Antonio's - 288th street, IIRC. It's a seafood restaurant and bar, and the place where young singles gather. If you're travelling stag I recommend it. All the women in Seattle are beautiful; it's my theory that the constant moisture keeps their skin soft and lovely, and other magnificent body parts well inflated and hydrated. In Portland I noticed first off that the bastards wouldn't let me smoke at the airport - that was when the laws first started changing to ostracize the innocent. Now it's everywhere, of course, as was predictable. The second thing I noticed was the preponderance of fruits and nuts. This is the land of Granola munchers. Be prepared to dine on bean sprouts and free-range cauliflower. There's nothing much there to make it enjoyable that I've found, but I've only been there a couple of times, and that briefly. Stop by and see my step-Mom if you would; I haven't been back since Dad died. Have a great trip, Rob. It's one of the most beautiful parts of the US... :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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...here I come. :) Off to the USA for a business trip in November - Portland for 4 or 5 days then a weekend of R&R in Seattle. Never visited either city before so if anyone has any recommendations for things to do (or fancies a pint or two) then feel free to share. I understand that there is a very good chance it will be damp. Being a Brit I should feel right at home.
Portland: 1. Tour some of the breweries, http://widmer.com/brewery.aspx, http://www.bridgeportbrew.com/, http://www.ehow.com/how_18346_tour-portlands-microbreweries.html. 2. Watch nutjobs ride in muck, fall over, get hurt, ect., check out one of the cycle-cross races. There are hundreds of competitors, http://www.crosscrusade.com/schedule/2009/index.html. 3. Visit the Spruce Goose, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules, and a bunch of other aircraft at the Evergreen Museum, http://www.sprucegoose.org/. 4. Ski, snow board, sled, etc. check out Mt. Hood; ski, http://www.skihood.com/, snow parks http://www.mthood.info/recreation/mt-hood-recreation-snowPlay.html. 5. Visit the World Forestry Museum, http://www.worldforestry.org/. 6. Visit the oldest art museum on the west coast, http://portlandartmuseum.org/visit/. 7. Watch a Trail Blazers, basketball team, game, http://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule/index.html.