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| Cokefreak Finland. July 07 2012 04:20. Posts 5662 | Profile # |
Quoting a great staff member:
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| Sherlock-Canada Canada. July 07 2012 04:21. Posts 192 | Profile # |
On July 07 2012 04:19 ZeaL. wrote:
Hey all, I'm in Ottawa, Canada for a biology conference till Wednesday. Pretty sure I have a day or two to just explore, what should I go see or eat? Not huge into nightlife or old museums, what else is good here?
Ottawa kinda sucks! But definitely go and check out the Bayward Market -- there's lots of cool places to eat there. |
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| StarStruck July 07 2012 04:24. Posts 18335 | Profile # |
Ottawa sucks. I went there for years and everyone would always get food poisoned every week of dining out. Lots of the places I liked closed down. I don't know if you are into museums or any of that crap... Nightlife is really poor there too. Most of the capacities are anywhere from 200-400. There are some nice restaurants on Elgin Street. A few places off Bank Street too and then you have the Byward Market.
Oh fuck it, it's Bluesfest... You should go down to that: http://ottawabluesfest.ca/
The only really fun day to be in Ottawa is Canada Day and that's about it.Last edit: 2012-07-07 04:25:07 |
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| ZeaL. United States. July 07 2012 04:30. Posts 3019 | Profile Blog # |
| Man.....so depressing. Yeah, I saw that it was blues fest, and I might try to see tiesto. Nothing else though? |
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| Djzapz Canada. July 07 2012 04:31. Posts 5684 | Profile Blog # |
| Drive to Montreal. Upgrade. |
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| StarStruck July 07 2012 04:34. Posts 18335 | Profile # |
On July 07 2012 04:30 ZeaL. wrote:
Man.....so depressing. Yeah, I saw that it was blues fest, and I might try to see tiesto. Nothing else though?
I used to do Promotions and head the nightlife there. Sadly no. Considering there's a law where no buildings are allowed to be taller than the Peace Tower in the DT area. It really limits the growth of the city. I haven't lived there in years and I'm sure there might be other stuff at Lansdowne Park or the outskirts, but it really isn't worth your time.
You technically just missed the Ottawa Fringe Festival so Blues Fest will have to do. There's a number of pubs and nightclubs there but they all tend to be very small. That might not be such a bad thing because odds are you are going to run into a lot of the artists. |
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| MrRicewife Canada. July 07 2012 04:34. Posts 415 | Profile Blog # |
| Ottawa war museum. My dad checks it out every few years he sees his parents. |
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| ZeaL. United States. July 07 2012 04:44. Posts 3019 | Profile Blog # |
On July 07 2012 04:34 MrRicewife wrote:
Ottawa war museum. My dad checks it out every few years he sees his parents.
I was surprised to see it as the top thing on tripadvisor but now I know why... still might try to see it myself. Rooming with two girls and they have 0 interest in that -_-.
Thanks for the tips everyone. |
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| Sherlock-Canada Canada. July 07 2012 05:19. Posts 192 | Profile # |
| If you like art, the Van Gogh exhibit is pretty fantastic! |
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| Torte de Lini Canada. July 07 2012 05:30. Posts 27023 | Profile Blog # |
On July 07 2012 04:31 Djzapz wrote:
Drive to Montreal. Upgrade.
dingdingding!
Seriously, come on over :D |
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 micronesia United States. July 07 2012 10:50. Posts 19302 | Profile Blog # |
When I was there they had free tours of Parliment which I thought were pretty cool. There was also a pretty ferry ride on the river you can do.
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| Oboeman Canada. July 07 2012 12:21. Posts 3388 | Profile # |
There's a barcraft on sunday at the clocktower brew pub.
Locals are playing a tournament (well three tournaments for different levels) and the finals will be played at the bar.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/420036434706810/
I'm not going to be there but they are usually fun.
Or bluesfest.
Or bike along the Ottawa river and Rideau canal. There are these rental bixi bike things around town, if you can rent one of those for an afternoon (7 bucks for a day I think) you an ride around, and ottawa is much nicer from the seat of a bicycle than on foot. |
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| ZeaL. United States. July 07 2012 23:24. Posts 3019 | Profile Blog # |
On July 07 2012 12:21 Oboeman wrote:There's a barcraft on sunday at the clocktower brew pub. Locals are playing a tournament (well three tournaments for different levels) and the finals will be played at the bar. http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/420036434706810/I'm not going to be there but they are usually fun. Or bluesfest. Or bike along the Ottawa river and Rideau canal. There are these rental bixi bike things around town, if you can rent one of those for an afternoon (7 bucks for a day I think) you an ride around, and ottawa is much nicer from the seat of a bicycle than on foot.
Thanks for the tips! I took a quick run this morning along the Rideau and it was very pretty. Lots of big government buildings around but hard to imagine that this is the capital of Canada. I might try the bike thing out, and saw a lot of them around town. I would try to go to the barcraft but I am still not a huge fan of sc2 :-(.
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| StarStruck July 07 2012 23:54. Posts 18335 | Profile # |
Big government buildings? Since when did Ottawa have big government buildings?!?!?! ;o
(See what I said about the peace tower)
The Canal is nice and all, but there just isn't much there man.
Ottawa is Toronto's bish. There's a long story as to why it was made the capital while Toronto gets the capital of Ontario bragging rights o;
Like I said, you should enjoy the nightlife there while Blues Fest is going on. Small venues and all the celebrities are out on the town. LMFAO was just at Junxion the other night. |
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| ZeaL. United States. July 08 2012 02:14. Posts 3019 | Profile Blog # |
On July 07 2012 23:54 StarStruck wrote:
Big government buildings? Since when did Ottawa have big government buildings?!?!?! ;o
(See what I said about the peace tower)
The Canal is nice and all, but there just isn't much there man.
Ottawa is Toronto's bish. There's a long story as to why it was made the capital while Toronto gets the capital of Ontario bragging rights o;
Like I said, you should enjoy the nightlife there while Blues Fest is going on. Small venues and all the celebrities are out on the town. LMFAO was just at Junxion the other night.
Those big castley things are government buildings right? They're pretty big. At least that's what I presumed they are with the dudes wearing red and the bagpipes and stuff outside. I need to check out bluesfest but I have to be at the conference late tonight/tomorrow, and hopefully Monday I'll go out at night. |
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| sorrowptoss Canada. July 08 2012 05:58. Posts 999 | Profile Blog # |
| If you feel like it, there's NASL in Toronto next week-end, I dunno if you can attend it, but just saying (seeing that you didn't mention for how long you're staying there). |
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| PassiveAce United States. July 08 2012 08:04. Posts 4333 | Profile Blog # | |
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