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Yearly Archives: 2010
Riding the Rideau Canal
Thu, 5 Aug 2010, 10:02 PM (-06:00)
Our plan was to rent a couple bikes and ride up the Rideau Canal and back and around the city a bit. We didn’t find the rental place where we expected it to be. And we didn’t find it down the block or up. And we didn’t find it on the next street. Finally, we […]
Son et Lumière at Parliament Hill
Wed, 4 Aug 2010, 10:15 PM (-06:00)
In Ottawa every night in the summer, they have a sound and light show at Parliament Hill. In the evening after the day of our train adventure, Trudy and I took the #12 bus down Montreal Road and Rideau Street into town to see it… The sky was dark and threatened rain which came and […]
Train à Vapeur to Wakefield #3
Sat, 31 Jul 2010, 09:36 AM (-06:00)
Ok, let’s finish this steam train story. The four of us enjoyed the train ride in our little coach room with a light breakfast served as the woods and river rolled by outside the large window. (Apologies to Khadija for capturing her out of focus.) And after about and hour and a half […]
Train à Vapeur to Wakefield #2
Fri, 30 Jul 2010, 09:13 AM (-06:00)
Ok, I’m falling behind. Let’s pick up where we were last time. Maybe we can catch up. The four of us were sitting around a table in our coach room with a big window looking out on the woods and the Gatineau River. The trees were green. The sky was blue. The wild flowers were […]
Train à Vapeur to Wakefield #1
Tue, 27 Jul 2010, 09:11 PM (-06:00)
One morning we left Ottawa after breakfast for Québec across the Ottawa River for Gatineau. We had a reservation for the steam train to Wakefield. As I have been doing (thus far to no complaints), I took my camera. We bought tickets at a small building surrounded by gardens of blooming flowers while the engine […]
Finally Leaving Work Behind
Mon, 26 Jul 2010, 07:04 AM (-06:00)
I had a dream last night—about work. Here we are in summertime Ontario, and I had a dream about work. It wasn’t a particularly happy dream. I was getting left behind. Meetings were being called, and I wasn’t invited and had to show up myself. A summer student was getting assigned work that I was […]
A Detour on the Road to Ottawa
Mon, 26 Jul 2010, 05:06 AM (-06:00)
We took a detour on the road to Ottawa, leaving the 401 for Prince Edward County (not to be confused with Prince Edward Island, which of course is of far, far away). Our detour took us down a two-lane road running thru farmland with apple trees and grape vines and corn and amber waves of […]
Shawarma
Sun, 25 Jul 2010, 08:04 PM (-06:00)
He waved us in from behind the window, motioned for us to come in and held out a plate with salad and potatoes and round bread filled with meat. “Today’s special! You get this and a drink,” he said. The place was tiny, the back half of what obviously used to be a single restaurant, […]