Posted on Sep 06, 2009 under Uncategorized |
I really enjoy my summer vacation this year. I travel a lot here in North America and my next plan is to visit the beautiful places of Europe. It is my dream to explore the beauty of Paris or Madrid. I know there are lots of elegant Hotels in Paris that I dream to stay with excellent accommodation, free breakfast and elegant suite. I have lots of friends in Europe but I want to experience the chambre d’hotes design. If given a chance I love also to stay at hotel Madrid and visit the world class tourist attraction of the place. I hope that I can save more money before the end of the year and book for reservation ahead of time.
Posted on Sep 06, 2009 under Uncategorized |
This is the Parliament Hill Building of Ottawa. I was there last August 16 to explore the beauty of the place. Parliament Hill is an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. Its Gothic revival suite of buildings, the parliament buildings serves as the home of the Parliament of Canada, and contains a number of architectural elements of national symbolic importance. Parliament Hill attracts approximately 3 million visitors each year.
Originally the site of a military base in the 18th and early 19th centuries, development of the site into a governmental precinct began in 1859, after Bytown was chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the Province of Canada. Following a number of extensions to the parliament and departmental buildings, and a fire in 1916 that destroyed the Centre Block, Parliament Hill took on its present form with the completion of the Peace Tower in 1927. Since 2002, an extensive $1 billion renovation and rehabilitation project has been underway throughout all of the precinct’s buildings; work is not expected to be complete until after 2020.
This is Ottawa River taken at the back of Parliament Hill building near the library. It is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It defines for most of its length the border between these two provinces. The river rises from its source in Lake Capimitchigama in the Laurentian Mountains of central Quebec, flows west to Lake Timiskaming, where it begins defining the interprovincial border with Ontario. From Lake Timiskaming the river flows southeast to Ottawa and Gatineau where it tumbles over the Chaudière Falls and further takes in the Rideau and Gatineau Rivers. The Ottawa River drains into the Lake of Two Mountains and the St. Lawrence River at Montreal. The total length of the river is 1,271 kilometers (790 mi); it drains an area of 146,300 km2, 65% in Quebec and the rest in Ontario, with a mean discharge of 1,950 m3/s. The average annual mean waterflow measured at Carillon dam, near the Lake of Two Mountains, is 1,939 m3/s, with average annual extremes of 749 to 5,351 m3/s. Record historic levels since 1964 are a low of 529 in 2005 and a high of 8190 m3/s in 1976. The last picture is the Ottawa bridge, the back part of Parliament Hill building.
(source: Wikipedia)
