May 24, Seattle/Tacoma, Washington

We awoke this morning to a grey day, not to be put off by a little cloud we set off on our planned outing which was to catch a bus then the light rail to Pioneer Square in the center of Seattle.
The reason for this trip was to do a tour of the Underground City that we missed on our last visit to Seattle.
The city has a very interesting history, the original city was lying too low and when it was destroyed by fire in 1889 the new city was built on top of the old. When we did the original city tour some years ago we were led to believe that you could tour all the old ground floor buildings, now deserted, not quite like that but still very interesting, when we emerged from the underground the weather had changed to brilliant sunshine. There is one thing we can definitely say about Seattle, their roads are terrible but their public transport is excellent and relatively cheap.