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Illuminated Boats – Dow’s Lake

August 1, 2010 – 3:44 pm

Rideau Canal Festival – Ottawa decided to host a mini Flotilla parade with lights at the Dow’s Lake Marina. They did so with Remote Control scaled vessels and with private boats decorated with lighting. The event also held a delayed 10 minute long fireworks. This article is for the Festival that was hosted during Saturday, [...]

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Canada Day/Independence Day – Long weekend

July 4, 2010 – 12:56 pm

With Canada Day being somewhat prolonged into a long weekend I thought I’d extend it into one more article. I would also like to take the time to wish the Americans a Happy Independence Day! We get to celebrate our nation’s birthday in a short period of time. I’m merging Saturday and Sunday morning into [...]

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Canada Day – Canada’s 143rd Birthday

July 2, 2010 – 3:22 pm

Happy Canada Day everybody! It’s Canada’s 143rd birthday. Lets go take a look at how our fellow Canadians in the National capital are up to. Pardon the belated post up, can’t post as swiftly on Canada Day due to parties ^^. (Link – MySite) (All images and video taken with a Lumix GF1 – Pancake [...]

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Spark’s Rib Cook-off w/Figma Ein

June 25, 2010 – 7:25 pm

Ottawa holds a Rib Cook-off every year for a few days for locals and tourists to try out. I decided to give this event an article this time around because I didn’t give one to it last year. I also encountered Ein on Parliament Hill where I tried to eat my chicken and ribs in [...]

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Italian Festival + Kiko Sushi Bar + Chinese Arch

June 20, 2010 – 9:35 pm

This article will be a three part article dealing with Ottawa’s Italian Festival, Kiko Sushi Bar, and the under construction Chinese Arch. I went to the Italian Festival for the Ferrari’s only to cover other things not related to Ferrari. I originally did go for Ferrari but missed out as the Sunday schedule was different. [...]

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Ottawa Tulip – P4 & Ottawa Tour – Final

May 24, 2010 – 6:16 pm

Ottawa Tulip Festival’s final article as today (Monday) is the last day for the event. I went back to Major’s Hill Park for the final time on Sunday to obtain some final Friendship stage content and to also wrap up the touristic view of Downtown Ottawa. I hope those following the blog enjoyed the 4 [...]

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Ottawa Tulip – P3 & Ottawa tour

May 22, 2010 – 9:41 pm

Part three of the Tulip Festival with an added and continued downtown Ottawa tour. Basically got stuck in the same place due to the incoming storm but it started off differently. I decided to finally get around to showing you guys and gals a long wall of graffiti that other locals and photographers tend to [...]

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Ottawa Tulip Festival – P2 & Ottawa Tour

May 18, 2010 – 9:19 pm

Went back to the Ottawa Tulip Festival on Major’s Hill Park to try and add missing bits and pieces from the previous article.  As the Pavilion wasn’t really packed like it was on Saturday I managed to get some decent shots.  As I already upped a few videos I didn’t take any new ones of [...]

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Ottawa Tulip Festival – Part 1

May 16, 2010 – 1:57 pm

The Canada-Netherland’s 2010 Tulip Festival – explained here. This article will cover the International Pavilion at Major’s Hill Park and the various other two food tents related to the Pavilion. (Link – Mysite) (All images and videos taken with a Lumix GF1 – Pancake lens. The article contains 88 images and three embedded videos. Hope people have [...]

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Girl Scouts – Parliament & Violinist

May 15, 2010 – 7:36 pm

As I was heading to the Tulip Festival on Major’s Hill Park  and took a short cut through Sparks street. I came across two street performers. I only recorded one of them (below). After that, I headed towards the Parliament  to notice lots of activity up on Parliament Hill. Curiosity got the better of me [...]

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Tulip Festival Intro & Ottawa Tour

May 11, 2010 – 9:21 pm

As things didn’t go as planned I had to split this single topic into two. The first part is of the Tulips for the Tulip Festival (an intro) and a quick incomplete tour of downtown Ottawa. (Link – MySite) (All images taken with a Lumix GF1 – pancake lens.)

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Pothead Canada – Ottawa

April 20, 2010 – 7:14 pm

4/20 – A pothead’s heaven on Earth. The one and only time I’ll post something like this up. I’m not a pothead myself but I did go downtown just for this and to see if I could kill two birds with one stone – Ottawa Senator’s mini-parties in the downtown area. I lucked out on [...]

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Canada, Ottawa – Downtown Easter Friday

April 2, 2010 – 11:47 pm

Wow, such an unCanadian like day as the weather was  oddly warm and summer like. I’m not complaining as I actually enjoyed such an unusually warm weather for late March and early April. It went from being snowy, warm, cloudy, warm, cold, cloudy, rain, cloudy, sunny, cloudy, chilly, warm, windy, warmer, and then into summer [...]

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Winterlude 2010 – Rideau Canal

February 21, 2010 – 5:32 pm

The final article about Winterlude 2010. This time I went to check out the Rideau Canal as I forgot to do so on my first visit. I of course missed out on the most important part of Winterlude – skating on the longest skating rink in the world, the Rideau Canal. Up for some Beaver [...]

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Winterlude 2010 – Gatineau

February 18, 2010 – 9:12 pm

This is a part two of the Winterlude 2010 article viewing the Gatineau region – “Ville de Gatineau”, the French half of the Ottawa region. I was in Confederation park on the first Winterlude event (5-7th) and forgot to check out the Rideau Canal and GAnime 2010. Jacques-Cartier Park is located, Here. For the Winterlude [...]

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