Ottawa Favorite Tips by Regina1965 Top 5 Page for this destination

Spring in Ottawa.

Fondest memory: Now, this is my favourite thing and fondest memory of Ottawa, when the trees are in bloom in spring. Here in Iceland we have no trees that bloom, so visiting Ottawa in spring time is heaven for me. I have both been in Ottawa during a heat-wave in May 2010 and a cold, rainy May in 2011, but be it rain or shine the blossoming trees just blow me away.

How lucky you people are who live in countries with such beautiful blooming trees.

The sign of Ottawa city.

Favorite thing: Now, VT really needs to come up with a general tip which doesn´t have "favorite thing" or "fondest memory" titles. This tip of mine doesn´t fall under either category. It is just an observation I made when walking around the city of Ottawa.

All the parking meters, i.e. where you get your parking tickets, have the lovely sign of Ottawa, and not one but many in a row. I mean no offence, my Canadian friends, but didn´t anybody notice that when you put so many Ottawa signs together that they look like "666" which is not like the nicest number in the Book? It struck me immediately when I saw this, and I mentioned it to other people and nobody had noticed it, but did when I pointed it out to them.

Again, I reiterate, this is just an observation I made, no offence, as I admire how impeccably Ottawa is presented to tourists, the people of Ottawa have made a fantastic job of making their city so presentable to visitors, that I was taken actually taken by surprise by the perfection of it all. The detailed, beautifully decorated information signs which you can see all over in the down-town area (see my photos), are just a work of art. Kudos to Ottawa, I say.