The Irish connection and a bit of Church-hopping!
This weekend in Canada is Labour Weekend, with today being Labour today, so a lot of the students here have gone traveling around or visiting. I decided to do a little more exploring myself this weekend and headed off to look for the local RC Churches as well as a trip to St. Patrick's Basilica and Notre Dame Basilica. Saturday morning, armed with my map, suncream and my 'petit peu du francais', little bit of French, I set off! St. Patrick's Basilica First stop was St. Patrick's Basilica . I came across this by chance about 2 weeks ago when I was googling free Catholic books to e-read . When I went to the homepage I realised it was the homepage of the Basilica so I read up on it and decided a visit definitely had to be planned. Providence! Entrance to St. Patrick's Basilica, Ottawa Ok, finding the place wasn't the easiest...people kept re-directing me to Notre Dame Basilica (more about that later!), which is on the other side of the city. After a...