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New York City – Part 2
Saturday The rainy day started and changed our plans to go early to the Empire State Buiding. So as soon as we got to Manhattan, we were following as far as the rain made possible, the script diego had created. The summary of the day was muiiiita walk, subway ride to the totally opposite side and feet on fire, but above all, various places visited, that was the intention. Well, then follow the pictures with the comments. Headquarters of The New York Times Times Square in broad daylight… New York Public Library In the background, covered by the clouds, is the Empire State Building. Chrysler Building, New Grand Central Terminal…
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New York City – Part 1
Hi all We're back with news from the States… weekend full of news, we went to New York City for 3 days. Tell me about it!! What city!! Wow!! I loved it (it was my first visit to the city) and Diego loved also reviewing everything after 10 years. We run during the 3 days in order to visit most of the important and unforgettable sights. Well, here goes a day-to-day of what we did there. FRIDAY We left Ottawa at 3:00. to Woodbury Common Premium Outlets that gets in the way of the Big Apple. The border with the USA was only 1h30min from here and the passage was…
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Niagara Falls and its beauties…
Hello guys!! Just to record the other great weekend tour we went to Toronto, we went to visit Niagara Falls. The city is approximately 120km from Toronto and borders the state of New York in the United States. So on one side of the river we were in the Canadian city of Niagara Falls and on the other side we would see the American city of the same name. The falls were formed from the erosion generated after the last ice age about 10,000 years ago (called Wisconsin glaciers). The massive waterfalls are divided into American, Canadian and Bridal Veil falls. The American Falls have already reached 52 meters high,…
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Master Series de Toronto
Hello guys, On 25/07 we went to Toronto to visit our newest friends Renato, Fernanda, Lucas and Felipe (also gauchos, but from the capital. Hehe…), who welcomed us into their home along with the oldest friends Gadi, Suzi and Ana. We stayed the 9 in their apartment, but despite the amount of people on the same roof, we were very well accommodated. 🙂 We arrived on Friday night and were greeted with a super barbecue, including with the right cassava flour… Hehehe… They have been in Toronto for a little over 5 months and are living in North York, which is a city in the metropolitan area with approximately 650,000…
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Part IV – Architectural beauties of Montreal
Hello guys, Finishing the tours of the month of June still, suuper delayed, I am posting today some of the sights that has for one of its characteristics, the sculptural and innovative architecture. Biodome de Montreal Olympic Stadium – Built for the 1976 Olympics… … by French architect Roger Taillibert … with its 175-meter tower. Unfortunately, the Olympic park is reputed to be the "white elephant" since incredible CAD$1.61 billion was spent to fully pay for it, which only happened in December 2006 (the figure includes construction, repairs, renovations, interest and inflation) and are still high annual spending amounts to keep the complex apparently not completely used. … in the…
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Part III – Grand Prix du Canada – 2008 (cont…)
As promised, follow the GP videos. Enjoy!! Adri making the introduction of the race just before the start First lap, with cars still coming After a few laps… With the safety car on the track after the first accident (on that yellow flag hamilton made the barricade and hit raikkonen's back in the pits) After the final flag (Massa and Rubinho passing in 5th and 7th, respectively)
