Saturday morning. Intense hangover. Headache, a Doliprane, shower, anything that would allow me to me recover. I make my bag quickly, and take the bus line in the direction of Charlesbourg. There, I have an hour to wait for Michael, which lead me to my carpool Ottawa. I enjoy brunch at Mike's for a hearty meal, eggs, toast, beans, and coffee will. 11am, my driver are t happened en route. 5 hours in the car!
We arrived around 16h 15 in Ottawa, Ontario. Here, the panels can not be read more in French, but English. Through the window I look , in light of declining day, basically ugly buildings the city. Michael drops me off at King Street E ward, I have to walk a quarter of an hour to arrive at Caroline, who was waiting for me so uper. Yes, here, 17 hours, it's time for dinner at Q uebec as in Ontario. My prestigious hostess has prepared me a delicious meal, we talk, then join Nicholas Street: Caro gives me a night tour in the old city jail. For an hour, we walk in "gaol", see the gallows, the tiny cells that then 50 years ago, greeted the prisoners and even sentenced to death. After this little walk in the prison, we'll have a drink cosmo (I also discover this fabulous cocktail Carolina) on one of the arteries of the city cool in the evening.
From Ottawa, few things to remember: apart from the welcome Caroline, our discussions and ravings, I retain the Museum of Arts and Parliament. Ottawa is the capital of Canada, and yet it did nothing very pretty. The urban poor, few places for pedestrians. It does not gigantic and modern and cosmopolitan Montreal and nothing to do with the authentic charm and warmth that Quebec. Actually, I was under no illusions about the city, after the many testimonies received. But it was to see for themselves.
Two nice surprises nevertheless least, the federal Parliament and the Museum of Arts.
Parliament, unlike that of Quebec, built i read in a classical style cal seen French and r evu (p o we French), is inspired by everything nineteenth neo-gothic style. The exterior appearance is impressive, and inside, it feels like to Hogwarts! Warheads, columns, a special atmosphere in this place where we are forbidden on many occasions to go through it or through it. We got into the clock tower, something prohibited in Quebec, and admire a 360 ° on Ottawa and the Ottawa River. On the other side of the river, Gatineau and Quebec. You can see the roof if the particular library of Parliament. The tour continues , we enter the House of Sen. at, the halls are taking straight out of a fantastic roma No, we Ecstasy in the library.
modern architecture and one of the few "Moms" from Louise Bourgeois awaits us at the Museum of Arts. Inside, a fine collection of contemporary until the sixteenth century. But some favorites, mostly. It a guitarist who, in a room, made from o Oeuvre we see. These are serene atrium, where red flower petals, or where water flows so calm. These are the corridors, the stairs where one believes in Metropolis.
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I remaining three days to Ottawa time to discover ir the capital, but more importantly to enjoy Carolina. His friends sometimes join us, Jonas First, already met in Sherbrooke, a funny guy and very nice, then Charles, a young boy in a wheelchair, and whose dog Echo amuses us at length. I should work, but there is always a distraction, a discussion with my Viennese Ottawa. Before taking me back a carpool nt in Quebec, we enjoy a hearty brunch at Cora's. I leave and say goodbye once again to Caroline, I see again in a month to Qu ebec.
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