I'm glad that you like talking a walk in a regular park (you mentioned couple of them), but it would be better to give a correct picture of the town than make people come and then get disappointed. National Gallery is worth taking picture of, but the collection is very poor. Chateau Laurier is a hotel. Canadian Mint is similar to American ones. Etc, etc.

It's worth spending one day in Ottawa, going to the Museum of Civilization, having a lunch at the Casino du Lac-Leamy, visiting Parliament Hill and the area (it's all located very, very close together) and finishing the day at some of the restaurants are ByWard Market.

Well Friendlys I guess that's where we're going to be different. :)

I'd rather see someone go to a town and be disappointed than to not go and never realize it was a wonderful place that they would have loved.

My point was that to say there is nothing to do in Ottawa is misleading. There is plenty to do, depending on your likes and dislikes. But someone else may very well enjoy it (as many, myself included, do).

I enjoyed the Mint very much, I was extremely impressed with the National Gallery (I was awed with the Group of Seven collection), and I didn't find the parks that ordinary. So, it's all in the interpretation of the visitor.

P.S. Yes, the Chateau Laurier is a hotel, but it is a historic hotel that holds a lot of interest for people. In fact, there is a bust of Sir Laurier that was created by Paul Romaine Chevre who was a passenger of the Titanic. While things like that may not hold an interest for you, they do for many people.

Hi,

I was just dropping by to make a reservation for a week, passing by Ottawa.

I very much enjoyed your article, brought back memoreis. Ottawa, actually is my home town, but I have been abroad for a while.

I realise you are a big fan of good food; gourmet. Next time, try the town Wakefield, 30 min. away from Ottawa. With its beautiful small, private restaurants and its Chef Christian Ouallet....you have never tasted anything like that, it will make memories...

Perhaps I am too excited to go back home, and thought I share this restaurant with you.....

cheers,
Sylva

as a Canadaian, who has traveled in Canada ,USA, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia,I have found Ottawa to be just an O.K. place for one, two days max.

Enough, already!

Principles - I enjoyed Wakefield on my last trip. There's also the Black Sheep Inn with lots of good music!

I took the steam train there and it was a very enjoyable afternoon.

So nbujic has had enough talk about Ottawa. That's fine.

Ottawa may be a boring hick town worth a day's visit to a world travelling Torontonian, but others who have not reached this level of sophistication may find that Canada's capital has enough to offer for more than a day or two or, horrors, for even a return visit.

If nbujic has had enough talk about Ottawa, the answer is simple--decline to open the threads.

As for me, I'm just happy to go to Toronto or Montreal from time to time and walk around gazing up at the skyscrapers and thinking, "Wow, so this is the big city!"

If laverndry never leaves Ottawa and finds trips to Toronto and Montreal a big deal, what is he or she doing in this
sight?

sorry
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I like to come to this sight so that I can learn all about the sites that maybe I can see some day. But for now, who needs more than Toronto and Montreal? I mean once you've gone up the CN Tower in Toronto or had a great meal of poutine in Montreal, who needs to go to Paris to climb the Eiffel Tower and eat frogs' legs?