Parliament Hill Ottawa

We spent a few hours looking around Ottawa - the capital of Canada. We had a nice walk along the canal and a tour of the houses of Parliament. I'll soon be a political expert! There were lots of statues and a strange home for stray cats …

Up at 6.30 this morning, to be ready for the tour which started from Rene Levesque at 8am. We got there a bit early and had to wait for our tour guide Tao to arrive. There was only a small group of us for this tour, about 25, so we were on a little dodgy bus! It was a 2 hour drive from Montreal to Ottawa. I had 40 winks on the bus. We passed the …

This morning Dylan was doing a day tour with Wonder Travel to Ottawa which started from Place D'Armes at 8.00am. It was a 2.5 hour drive from Montreal to Ottawa and the first stop at 10.40am was at the Parliament Buildings.

Parliament Hill, is an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. Its …

Ok< Ottawa, the town that fun forgot. Or at least thats what i'm reminded everytime i mention going back there, personally, i quite like it. for the most part.
We didn't have long in ottawa, mainly because i had already seen it all before so i just wanted to get along to montreal, but being able to see it all in summer, minus the snow, was …

Today is Thanksgiving in Canada. I am thankful that I am here and enjoying this wonderful trip, seeing interesting things every day.

After a shorter drive (only 2.5 hours) this morning, we arrived in Ottawa. Ottawa is the capital of Canada and is a much smaller city than Montreal. It has a definite "Canberra" feel to it. We got there …

Basically, I can't believe how lucky I am... that I can be seeing so much beautiful landscape/wildlife, interesting landmarks, and fellow human beings. That I am living a dream. That I have enough to be right where I am. And everywhere I seem to put myself. And I'm happy, blessed, and juicy!

Each mile finds me inspired... new ideas …

We were up and out by 9am following Linh, Thinh and Coo en route to Ottawa. Thinh's heavy foot made it an interesting drive across the barren Canadian farmland. The weather was perfect- about 80 and sunny with no little humidity. We stopped by the Parliament and took many family pictures...even though everyone else was getting sick of it. We went …

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Entry containing 14 photos titled: Parliament Hill, Rideau Canal, Grosse Marmotte, Musée des civilisations, Musée de la poste

Entry containing 7 photos titled: Chambre des communes, Bibliothèque du Sénat, Chambre du Sénat

... nbsp; I was lucky enought to stay for her big birthday party and it was a delight.  As was a very cool light show on Parliament Hill that played nightly to music - just like the one I had seen in Toledo Spain just a few weeks before.  Obviously ...

... -watching throughout the day. Here are just a few random thoughts and emotions from our twelve hours out and about on Parliament Hill and around the downtown core on La Fête du Canada: · reflecting on the peacefulness of the nation's capital on ...

... , like along the side of the A3, instead of the condo blocks you see on the approaches to DC.  We drove around the Parliament Hill area and business districts and I think we should start tomorrow with a walk along the Rideau Canal.  Its been hot all ...

... ; As far as tourist attractions there weren't many so spent most of the two days walking around the central area.  I went to parliament hill which is based on our house of commons and there I saw some war memorials, went up the peace tower and sat ...

Dear Blog, The other day, as I passed in front of Parliament Hill, I noticed a lot of tourists visiting the place.   Having traveled to a lot of countries and taken thousands and thousands of pictures, somehow just seeing all ...

... and the Senate, as well as learning all about how parliament works and some history of Ottawa and Canada. After I had a walk around the outside grounds of Parliament Hill I visited the Bytown Museum for awhile. It was a great museum; all about the ...

... the changing of the guard every day outside parliament at 10am, Ottawa is the official capital of Canada. The main attractions are Parliament Hill, The Byward Market, The Mint, Museum Of Civilization and Rideau Canal. The Museum of Civilizations had ...

... a.m. only to discover the house was sitting anyways!  So, we settled for the generic tour of the generic places on Parliament Hill:  Center Block.  House of Commons, Peace Tower (although, with the meter ticking, we couldn't afford the ...

... the construction of the canal hence the memorials erected along the route of this UNESCO heritage site. Tour the Parliament Buildings Parliament Hill consists of three buildings, the middle block which contains the Senate and Commons chambers and the ...

... was just the tax added on though so I'll have to stop getting offended by the price difference. I didn't get as close to Parliament Hill as I'd hoped since I had a few missions to get my Social Insurance number (check) and buy a camera charge (not ...