The 2010 GP World Tour: First Stop, Ottawa, Canada

[GentlemanPlayer]

Here's the Pics. Enjoy.

Rideau Canal. Next to the Chateau Laurier Hotel

Alexandra Bridge over the Ottawa River. Connecting Ottawa, Ontario to Gatineau, Quebec.

Statue of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Seventh Prime Minister of Canada. The Chateau Laurier is named after him.

Centre Block & Peace Tower. Main building of the Canadian Parliament.

29 days before the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

 

[GentlemanPlayer]

Some more....

The Centennial Flame, located on Parliament Hill

Top of the Peace Tower.

Two of the four gargoyles on the Peace Tower.

 

[GentlemanPlayer]

Statue of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada (as well as Great Britain)

From left to right: National Gallery of Canada, Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, & the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa.

Statue of Samuel de Champlain at Nepean Point. Located near the National Gallery of Canada

 

[GentlemanPlayer]

The Canadian Police and Peace Officers Memorial

These critters were at a stray cat shelter up on Parliament Hill. I was two feet from the pigeons when I took that shot of them.

Statue of Queen Victoria. She chose Ottawa as the capital of then the Dominion of Canada.

 

[GentlemanPlayer]

Chateau-Laurier Hotel. This is where I was staying here in Ottawa.

Canadian National War Memorial and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. (notice the tomb in the forground of the first pic)

The Flags of Canada. I know the first four (R to L) off my head. Canada, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia. The furtherst one on the left is Nunavut. The rest I don't know right off-hand. (you Canadian SOLers can help me out here)

Ice skating on the Canal.

That's it. Enjoy.

 

[CT's Finest]

Cool pics GP. Keep doing your thing...

 

[Chicutie]

Nice pics GP

 

[MCP]

Thanks for sharing those pics GP.

 

[GentlemanPlayer]

I had a good time, but now it's time for me to go back to Baltimore.

Ottawa's a nice city. It's just a little too cold for me (weather-wise in the winter)

One of these days, I'm gonna visit Toronto. But that's for another time.

Thanks to my Canadian friend (she knows who she is) who told me about the Rideau Canal. I didn't get a chance to skate on it. And if I did, I probably would have fell flat on my ass.

But I had a good time. I may have to come back just to visit.

Time for me to hop on a plane and head back to the warzone that is Baltimore.

Adieu, Ottawa.

 

[Mo-Better]

GP, your in an enviable position getting to travel the world the way you do. My only request is you continue sharing the experience. Thanks! Nice post!

 

[Decon Frost]

Flags from right to Left

Canada
Ontario
Quebec
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Manitoba
British Columbia
Prince Edward Island
Saskatchewan
Alberta
New Foundland and Labrador
North Western Territories
Yukon
Nunavut

 

[GentlemanPlayer]

Thanks, Decon Frost. I knew someone would come thru.

 

[melonpecan]

That is too cool. Looks like a cool place to go to on winter vacation with a hot tub in the hotel suite.


Thanks again GP!





Oh yeah, is that black squirrel?!

 

[GentlemanPlayer]

That is too cool. Looks like a cool place to go to on winter vacation with a hot tub in the hotel suite.

Thanks again GP!

Oh yeah, is that black squirrel?!

Yes, MP, that is a black squirrel. That's why I took a photo of it. I don't see too many of them here in East Baltimore.