The Rideau Canal is even more beautiful than it is famous. It winds a crooked country path some 200 km from Kingston to Ottawa and was originally used for shipping. It is now a National Heritage Site and one of Ontario’s most treasured. We decided to take the slow road along the Rideau and check out the lock system on the way.
This is the second time to Ottawa for us and with the warm
spring weather the city is in full flower.
Three especially kind things and three unusually fun things happened for us today. We were the beneficiaries of the great kindness of two strangers (one was the VW mechanic, the other was the car rental guy). We also received some important camping information, saving us time and money.
As for the unusually fun things? We met a couple from Vancouver who are also travelling across the country and enjoyed some good laughs with them. We happened to see a street named Nanaimo just as we arrived in Ottawa. Then a Rabbi taking his class of 6 boys for a tour of Ottawa, was following the same course we were so we walked alongside them for a bit, listening to their good-humoured banter. Of course fun happens every day on vacation, right?
We hope you are all well and we think of you often. Sending love your way!
