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Bec's Bucholic Canada Caper - Day 1 - Ottawa
I left Toronto today.?Was a bit sad at leaving and whatever, but after I got over myself all was well.?Sent some stuff home via seamail - it's amazing how quickly things accumulate (and I thought I was doing really well!).?Then I found some of my co-op housemates and shanghai'd them into coming out for a coffee with me.?It was a nice way to say goodbye, and it turns out that two of them, Mariska and Jurre from the Netherlands, are going to be in Montreal on Saturday.?So we organised to meet up.?It's nice to know I'll see some familiar faces soon.
Off to the station and the 3:20 train to Ottawa.?It was a nice journey, very relaxing, complete with 'rail attendant' bringing around an airline style cart of snacks to buy.?I played on my puter and stared out the window mostly.
South-Eastern Ontario as viewed from the train is very pretty.?It's not godzone, but its sensibly pretty, lots of rolling hills and farmland and those red and white barns that you see in patriotic films about the American mid-west.?Then we went though a stretch that was nothing but marshland.?This sort of land would be covered in birds in Summer, but right now, on the cusp of Spring it was a bit desolate.
Ottawa is a cute city - very clean, and somewhat over-planned, as any created capital tends to be (Canberra take note).?After getting a bit lost trying to find the hostel and instead getting trapped inside a huge shopping centre, I finally made it to the Ottawa Backpackers.?It's a lovely, homely hostel, feels more like staying at some friend's share-house than a hostel really.?They have a cat - big, fat, ginger, tom called Don Gato - so I'm happy.
Tommorrow planning to head to the museum of civilisation, and maybe on Thursday I'll go white water rafting!?
Being on holiday is cool.
I left Toronto today.?Was a bit sad at leaving and whatever, but after I got over myself all was well.?Sent some stuff home via seamail - it's amazing how quickly things accumulate (and I thought I was doing really well!).?Then I found some of my co-op housemates and shanghai'd them into coming out for a coffee with me.?It was a nice way to say goodbye, and it turns out that two of them, Mariska and Jurre from the Netherlands, are going to be in Montreal on Saturday.?So we organised to meet up.?It's nice to know I'll see some familiar faces soon.
Off to the station and the 3:20 train to Ottawa.?It was a nice journey, very relaxing, complete with 'rail attendant' bringing around an airline style cart of snacks to buy.?I played on my puter and stared out the window mostly.
South-Eastern Ontario as viewed from the train is very pretty.?It's not godzone, but its sensibly pretty, lots of rolling hills and farmland and those red and white barns that you see in patriotic films about the American mid-west.?Then we went though a stretch that was nothing but marshland.?This sort of land would be covered in birds in Summer, but right now, on the cusp of Spring it was a bit desolate.
Ottawa is a cute city - very clean, and somewhat over-planned, as any created capital tends to be (Canberra take note).?After getting a bit lost trying to find the hostel and instead getting trapped inside a huge shopping centre, I finally made it to the Ottawa Backpackers.?It's a lovely, homely hostel, feels more like staying at some friend's share-house than a hostel really.?They have a cat - big, fat, ginger, tom called Don Gato - so I'm happy.
Tommorrow planning to head to the museum of civilisation, and maybe on Thursday I'll go white water rafting!?
Being on holiday is cool.
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