Ottawa - Downtown
When not travelling, I live in Gatineau, across the river from Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Here's a few pictures of the downtown core of Ottawa, by the Ottawa River.
This is the the Alexandra Bridge (also called the Interprovincial Bridge) one of several bridges over the Ottawa River, which separates the cities of Ottawa (in the province of Ontario) and Gatineau (in the province of Québec). It is my favorite bridge : half of it is reserved to pedestrians, so people (and trolls!) can cross the bridge by foot and enjoy a fantastic view of the Ottawa River, the History Museum and the back of the Parliament buildings.
The two following pictures show an area of Ottawa that is called "Byward market". It is both a highly touristic area with a lot of fancy restaurants, art galleries and boutiques, and a bunch of very expensive apartment buildings, and an area where one can find a lot of homeless people. It is always full of people during the day, but it's not the safest place of town once the sun has set, unfortunately.
This is the Château Laurier (https://www.fairmont.com/laurier-ottawa/). "Château" means castle in French, but this was never a castle! It is probably Ottawa most iconic and luxurious hotel. It's crazily expensive to stay there, so I never had the opportunity to do so, but luckily, there's no need to go inside to enjoy the magnificent view of the hotel, which is located in the most visited area of downtown, right beside the Parliament buildings.
The two following photos show parts of the downtown core of Ottawa. I took them a few years ago, from an helicopter (the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum - https://ingeniumcanada.org/casm – offers helicopters tours; it's not cheap, but it was a great thrill and we had a fantastic time!).
This photo shows the glass domes of the National Gallery of Canada (https://www.gallery.ca/), which is a beautiful building where one can go admire artworks, but also take part in many art-related activities, a lot of them for free.
Here, you can see the locks on the Rideau Canal, that allow boats to access the Ottawa River. They are located between the Château Laurier (to the right) and the Parliament Buildings (to the left). The little brick building by the side of the locks used to be the lockmaster's house, but it now houses the Bytown Museum (https://bytownmuseum.com/) a small museum dedicated to the early years of Ottawa, when the city was called Bytown.
This photo was taken from one of the buildings of the Ottawa University (www.uottawa.ca), and shows part of the campus.
This photo was taken from the same building as before, but shows part of the downtown area instead (the Ottawa University is located in the core of the downtown area).
I took this picture of a busy street corner in downtown area from my previous office (at the corner of Laurier and Kent). One doesn't always have the opportunity to have an office with windows or a view as nice as this one, so I took a few pictures as a souvenir!
More pictures taken from the 19th floor of Jean-Edmonds Tower North, at the corner of Slater and Kent, in downtown Ottawa
This is the the Alexandra Bridge (also called the Interprovincial Bridge) one of several bridges over the Ottawa River, which separates the cities of Ottawa (in the province of Ontario) and Gatineau (in the province of Québec). It is my favorite bridge : half of it is reserved to pedestrians, so people (and trolls!) can cross the bridge by foot and enjoy a fantastic view of the Ottawa River, the History Museum and the back of the Parliament buildings.
The two following pictures show an area of Ottawa that is called "Byward market". It is both a highly touristic area with a lot of fancy restaurants, art galleries and boutiques, and a bunch of very expensive apartment buildings, and an area where one can find a lot of homeless people. It is always full of people during the day, but it's not the safest place of town once the sun has set, unfortunately.
This is the Château Laurier (https://www.fairmont.com/laurier-ottawa/). "Château" means castle in French, but this was never a castle! It is probably Ottawa most iconic and luxurious hotel. It's crazily expensive to stay there, so I never had the opportunity to do so, but luckily, there's no need to go inside to enjoy the magnificent view of the hotel, which is located in the most visited area of downtown, right beside the Parliament buildings.
The two following photos show parts of the downtown core of Ottawa. I took them a few years ago, from an helicopter (the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum - https://ingeniumcanada.org/casm – offers helicopters tours; it's not cheap, but it was a great thrill and we had a fantastic time!).
This photo shows the glass domes of the National Gallery of Canada (https://www.gallery.ca/), which is a beautiful building where one can go admire artworks, but also take part in many art-related activities, a lot of them for free.
Here, you can see the locks on the Rideau Canal, that allow boats to access the Ottawa River. They are located between the Château Laurier (to the right) and the Parliament Buildings (to the left). The little brick building by the side of the locks used to be the lockmaster's house, but it now houses the Bytown Museum (https://bytownmuseum.com/) a small museum dedicated to the early years of Ottawa, when the city was called Bytown.
This photo was taken from one of the buildings of the Ottawa University (www.uottawa.ca), and shows part of the campus.
This photo was taken from the same building as before, but shows part of the downtown area instead (the Ottawa University is located in the core of the downtown area).
I took this picture of a busy street corner in downtown area from my previous office (at the corner of Laurier and Kent). One doesn't always have the opportunity to have an office with windows or a view as nice as this one, so I took a few pictures as a souvenir!
More pictures taken from the 19th floor of Jean-Edmonds Tower North, at the corner of Slater and Kent, in downtown Ottawa
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