I don't think much of Ottawa

The Civic Centre is quite beautiful and well worth a journey to go and see but 10 minutes out of the centre in any direction you have quite a seedy and down-at-heel inner city. Something like Brussels or Washington DC for example.

My motel was right next door to a Salvation Army thrift shop and there was a pawn shop just across the road. And outside my room this morning was a .... errrr ... pavement pizza.

But I had a good couple of hours around the city even though it was absolutely taters and what with all of this and with yesterday at Exporail I'm a day behind. But I had a belt through the high Ontario plateau across the top of Toronto on some really stimulating roads and I'm now in another cathouse of a motel but at least a more reasonable $59. Tomorrow I'll be back in Windsor where Strawberry will be meeting up with his big sister again.