Day 52 Wed-Parliament Hill & Crazy Cars!

Up at 4,30am with another headache…Gosh hoping no Covid…Drugged up finished my diary…was falling asleep last night as I was writing….
We had to get going early to do the sightseeing here in Ottawa….. Lucky I have 1/2 a Timmy’s Farmers Bacon Wrap, left from yesterday….

We were packed any away by 7am….the plan was to look at Parliament Hill many of the buildings when we finally got a park, many of the buildings are being revamped…They were quite impressive large buildings which consisted of about 4 buildings…the main one in the middle was being extensively renovated….so you couldn’t see much…around the area were many extremely large detailed statutes also very impressive…Funny thing is as we walked up the Mall on our way back to the car…there was a very modern group of faceless statues without detail at all from one extreme to the next…

Anyway it felt like I was on a Cosmos Tour…we parked the car in a spot that was free until 8am…it was 7.15 am when the gun went off and the tour leader said go,.,,😆😆😆 he really didn’t but that’s how it felt…so many amazing buildings to see in such a short period of time…but we did it with John even grabbing a Cappuccino from Tim Horton’s…

Past stunning Parliament buildings and massive statues that were from a bygone era….
The plan was to go to another part of the city to see these unreal buildings both modern and historical… but John was ready to had out..I was very sad we didn’t get to see more, but knowing the road had some Ks to put under our belt was more important…

The rest of they trip really was pretty boring no lakes, just trees and roads…no animals even…
We spotted a sign for a Like a Dutch Windmill in a village so off we went to find it…we did find it but sadly it had lost its wind-blades…so it was just a Mill…welllll that’s what it resembled…the door was open and a lovely young lady was sitting reading in the lower section of it…I thought it was like the Chaple we found the little one it was meant to be looked in…but the girl got up and said the door shouldn’t be open then legged it right back…I apologised for disturbing her…but we still aren’t sure why it’s advertised on the Hwy was a tourist site when it looks like it’s a private residence 🤔🤔🤔😳😩🤪!

So on we went deciding to drive a king the but river we worked out was tidal which a actually goes to Hudson Bay…..
Anyway while checking out all,the quaint villages along the way we spotted a good little road side cafe to have lunch…The young girl who served us couldn’t understand English so had to get her mother or boss not sure what to take our order…we thought that very strange a young girl of about 14-15 not being bilingual that’s a bit typical with the French…very insulated….anyway we managed to get our meal nothing special then off we set for Montmorency Falls

At 83 m (272.3') high, a full 30 m (98.4') taller than Niagara Falls, the Montmorency Falls are as spectacular a sight in the summer as in the winter.
They are located in a park of the same name only 15 minutes from Old Québec. St. Lawrence River stretches out not far from the base of the cliffs. We headed down to a view Liu to to see the massive drop…then back across the suspended bridge to the belvedere, where you can feel the power of the river as it thunders past. It was worth a visit…but so did heaps of others…fortunately we had enough space not to be on top of each other…the highlight for me was close up encounters of chipmunk’s so, so cute little fellas…

We had, had enough so grabbed a soft serve and headed back across the suspension bridge seeing the unreal views below and out in front of us seeing a massively long bridge across the river below…. People Zip lining across the ravine below us….and the cliff above the falls looked like it had too much snow over winter stripping any forage that might of held together…but now very bare…looked very odd…walkways below the falls and down the cliffs to access below…blow that far too many steps for this lazy bones…

Arrived at our hotel tired and stressed we had so many crazy car driver close calls today…more than any day we have travelled…these darn Frenchmen of women are truly mad drives…my nerves were totally frazzled by the time we arrived at our hotel…I was t feeling 100% today that rotten headache keeps raring it’s ugly head…with all the crazy close calls I felt very fragile and tired…poor John coping my outbursts…I think we need a holiday…this pace sure is exhausting…but we will survive…how blessed are we to see all these amazing sites and sights…I won’t ever come back to Canada…but can’t say it hasn’t had sine mind blowing moments that I am sure we will look fondly back on as time moves on….Read more