Sunday: An Evening With..........

We headed down to Seattle for the night. As is usual when we haven’t been to the U.S. for a while we had to enter the secondary inspection point at the border to answer some additional questions. ‘What’s the purpose of your visit?’ asked the border guard. ‘To see Patti Smith’, we said. Imagine our disappointment when he asked, ‘Who’s that?’.

Our confidence was later restored, however. On the recommendation of my colleague we stopped off at ‘Stoup Brewing’ in Ballard. The server, who heard our accents and wanted to know where we were visiting from, and why, was far more impressed (she was younger, but also trendier, than the unknowledgeable border guard).

Anyway, Patti, who read from her new book, ‘Year Of The Monkey’, answered some questions and sang a few songs, was everything, and as drily funny, than I hoped/knew she would be.

A bit of Seattle in extras.