Vancouver vs Seattle Museum of Glass and Whistler

Continuing our Seattle vacation...

Seattle is a city that appreciates its art and close by Tacoma lays claim to the spectacle that is the Museum of Glass...

We have previously visited the Museum of Glass but each time the experience is worth the time and this occasion was not the exception. We were very pleased to experience the amazing art of Preston Singletary native art translated with glass...masterfully... You can observe live glassmaking which is like watching molten hot dancing...

The Chihuly Bridge of Glass is by itself worth the visit and its free! The Museum of Glass building is a marvellously unique masterwork by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson...We highly recommend the Museum of Glass...and Vancouver has nothing that can touch it...or does it?

Later we went and visited some Seattle neighbourhoods, walked in some parks and did some shopping...While Vancouver has nothing like the Museum of Glass it does have Whistler possibly the best resort on the planet (great in winter and summer)...Seattle has nothing like that...

Vancouver and Seattle are both excellent cities to visit. Seattle has a clear edge with the arts. Vancouver has a much more impressive downtown core of shopping, towers and liveability. Seattle is exciting leading with Microsoft, Starbucks and Boeing! Speaking of which The Museum of Flight in Seattle, we have visited it in the past and it is fantastic...definitely worth the visit....

Vancouver has the majestic character provincial capital city of Victoria nearby and it is worth a vacation on its own...Seattle has an amazing web of a freeway far exceeding that of Vancouver...

Both cities are surrounded with wonders of nature...Vancouver I would say has the edge there with much superior water front access and the stunning North Shore Mountains at its footsteps...Both cities love sports...but Vancouver seems to have the edge on the outdoors and it did host the 2010 Winter Olympics. Overall I am inclined to say that Seattle is a better indoor city than Vancouver...there is simply more to do of higher calibre indoors in Seattle...However outdoors Vancouver’s outdoors quality and quantity is superb...Seattle is good but Vancouver scoops the outdoors...both great cities to spend time...perhaps as an excellent one two punch...

A dreamy part of the world....