Ottawa News & Radio - so much selection

Are you looking for a great newspaper to read? How about a good radio station to listen to? Ottawa offers a variety of local and national newspapers. As for radio - you can choose from dance, hip hop, rock, jazz, country....you name it, we have it!

Check out our list of Ottawa Newspapers & Radio Stations here...

The Search Engines are finding us!!!

It is working! It is really, really working. This has been so much fun building a website with Site Build It (SBI). However, we couldn't be 100% certain that it would actually work until we started seeing results.

Well, we are beginning to see results. Our site is only 6 weeks old (some pages are only days old) and the Search Engines are finding us! Google and MSN have found some of our pages already. We are even ranked in the top 10 for some! WOW! We are so surprised that this is happening so fast. We will have to get busy writing more articles and material for our site so our readers are happy.

We hope that all the other newbies & beginners out there are having as much fun as we are.

If you are new to site building and you don't believe that the process can be easy and fun then take a look at our site called Ottawa-Information-Guide.

If you can believe it, seven weeks ago we didn't know a thing about HTML, tags, links, image optimzing or anything related to making our very own site. We were practically computer illiterate. The only thing we knew how to do was to type and surf the net! Not anymore!

Is there such thing as Canadian food?

As a Canadian we have often discussed the matter of "Canadian" food. What is it? Does anyone even know about it?

So, we asked some friends and family what they thought was typical Canadian food. They all agreed that Canadian food consisted of maple syrup & maple products, beavertails (the sweet pastry, not the animal), Alberta beef, wheat & poutine (that is french fries, cheese & gravy)! There are a few other dishes that we could think of but we didn't think they were as common.

How about Canadian recipes? Can you think of any Canadian recipes? We couldn't come up with any so we did a search and came up with quite a few recipes that included Canadian maple syrup and/or sugar!

Discover delicious Canadian, maple recipes here...

How is maple syrup made & where does it come from?

Have you ever wondered where maple syrup came from? Have you ever wanted to know how it was made? It is quite an amazing process. The maple syrup is made out of the sap that comes from a maple tree (obviously, it isn't THAT simple)!

Lanark County (west of Ottawa) is known as the "Maple Syrup Capital of Ontario, Canada". In Lanark County there are two Sugar Bushes that make maple syrup and maple products.

Read more about the Ottawa Sugar Bushes here...

Winterlude 2005 - Ottawa's Winter Festival

Picture this...
It is February and the temperature is +7 degrees celsius and sunny. You walk downtown Ottawa and you see thousands of people enjoying their day on the world's longest skating rink. Some of them take a break to enjoy a "Canadian Beavertail" and a cup of hot chocolate. Others take a stroll over to view the glistening ice sculptures. There is a friendly hockey match taking place between two local mayors and their councillors. You can hear children laughing and you decide that you should join in on the fun...

This is what it was like 2 days ago when we went downtown Ottawa to check out Winterlude. Winterlude is Ottawa's famous winter festival. It takes place over three weekends in February and it offers plenty of activities and events for the entire family. Read more about Ottawa's Winterlude here...

Shop 'til you drop (in Ottawa)

We added more information to our website yesterday that you may be interested in. Site Build It (SBI) is making this so fun and easy for us.

We figured that for visitors to Ottawa and residents of Ottawa, shopping was something that you may want to know about. So, we added a "Shopping" page with locations of the different malls and shops. We also added some information on one of Canada's oldest pedestrian malls, Sparks Street Mall.

Read more about Ottawa shopping here...

The Glen Scottish Restaurant

We went there last night for the first time ever because everyone raves about their fish & chips. They are supposedly the best in Ottawa. Well, they do live up to their reputation (remember, one of us is from the UK so they had to be VERY good). One of us is also a vegetarian and although the selection wasn't grand for us lacto-ovo vegetarians, the dish was still quite delicious and satisfying.

If you are ever in the West End of Ottawa (Kanata) and you fancy a nice, cold Tartan (Scottish beer) and some fish & chips then check out the Glen Scottish Restaurant at 13-462 Hazeldean Road.

We are going to have to add them to our Ottawa Restaurants information page.