Blogs from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 33

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR Firstly, I have put up Montreal photos and am just about to put up photos of Christmas and New Year on my photo page http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r141/michty6/ I was slightly hungover leaving Montreal to go to Ottawa, I had organised a carpool which turned out very well and Im going to try and do more now... The guy driving was called Jack and has just started up his carpool business (www.autotaxi.com), which he is also just about to expand by offering a Ottawa-Toronto route. He also believes that Quebec should be a separate nation from Canada, but not at the moment as they do not have a strong leader! I was heading to Ottawa, to meet one of my really good friends from Glasgow, Jenni, to spend Christmas with her family. Jenni and her ... read more

Seasons Greetings to you all! Clinton and I are currently in Canada's capital, Ottawa, visiting our good friend Derrick for Christmas. (For those who do not know him, we met him in Jacksonville when he was posted there too. We drove up here a couple of days ago, stopping at Lake Placid, NY (home of a couple of Winter Olympics, in case you're wondering where you'd heard of that before) to "warm up" for our snowboarding season ahead. Unfortunately the snowfall in this part of the world has been virtually non-existant, which is very unusual for this time of year, so the snow we were boarding on was of the delightful icy man-made type. What was there was spread in strips down the mountain, with the surrounding areas bare. Quite a weird thing to ride the ... read more

Well, if you want to eat fine meat I would suggest going to Le Bifteque...it's da bomb baby and it's tasty and all for a reasonable price....near you will find Pinecrest mall (on Iris) where you shall find IKEA, Micheals' and Sears. There's also some pictures taken near Prince of wales (Canadian geese -what's left) and a little beatiful path.... read more

well the time is racing by........im here in onterrable now counting the days...... read more

"You have to run with your own feet to some place you haven't been before---to a new place. You have to leave the world where you have everything under your control. You have to leave the world where everybody likes you. You have to head into a world where you are poor and powerless. And there---you'll be converted, despite yourself." -Richard Rohr... read more