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Picture of the Week: Red Bikes

July 29, 2011 – 8:05 am | 4 Comments

Like many cities around the world, Ottawa recently launched a pub­lic bicy­cle shar­ing sys­tem, Cap­i­tal Bixi. The bikes cost $5 for a 24 hour rental period and are avail­able in sev­eral sta­tions, includ­ing at the Byward Mar­ket where I snapped the picture.

Picture of the Week: 42ºC

July 22, 2011 – 8:30 am | 14 Comments

42ºC. Holy crap.
Dis­claimer: I didn’t take that pic­ture (I was in my air-con cubi­cle sip­ping a cold can of soda), Feng snapped it this after­noon.
A few weeks ago, I explained that sum­mers in Canada were typically …

My Seven Links

July 20, 2011 – 8:30 am | 11 Comments

I was invited by Lau­rel of Expat in Ger­many to com­plete a pop­u­lar meme ini­ti­ated by the travel web­site Trip­base. I loved the idea because with a five-year-old blog and over 700 arti­cles, even I have trou­bles remem­ber­ing every­thing I wrote!

Picture of the Week: The Drummers

July 8, 2011 – 8:20 am | 17 Comments

The city of Ottawa is cur­rently exper­i­ment­ing with some­thing totally rev­o­lu­tion­ary: a pedes­trian inter­sec­tion. In this car cul­ture coun­try, there are very few pedes­trian streets.

Top Summer Dating Ideas [Sponsored Post]

June 29, 2011 – 8:00 am | 4 Comments

Sum­mer is one of the more roman­tic sea­sons of the year. With the pass­ing of spring show­ers and win­ter snows, sum­mer is an ideal time to spend qual­ity time out­doors with a date or sweet­heart. If you are plan­ning a roman­tic date with a spe­cial some­one and need some inspi­ra­tion, here are some ideas for arrang­ing a per­fect date.

Why Do People Choose to Move Abroad? [Sponsored Post]

June 27, 2011 – 7:55 am | 6 Comments

Mov­ing to a coun­try where they speak a dif­fer­ent lan­guage is one of the most excit­ing yet nerve rack­ing things that any­one can do in their life. If you have never been in this posi­tion, then it is impos­si­ble to imag­ine the ner­vous­ness and the fears going through the new migrant’s head.

Picture of the Week: Curious Ant

June 24, 2011 – 8:30 am | 18 Comments

Canada is pretty ster­ile dur­ing the win­ter. Most ani­mals hiber­nated once the thick blan­ket of snow has fallen and all you get to see is a few rab­bits. But once the flow­ers bloom, it feels like we are on Noah’s Ark.

At War Against Spam

June 22, 2011 – 8:15 am | 35 Comments

You wouldn’t believe how much spam this blog is get­ting. Every time I log in and go to my Word­Press dash­board, I do a double-take at the num­ber: “Akismet has pro­tected your site from 74,191 spam com­ments already.”