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Chinatown’s Lucky Eight, with Eric Darwin and Gowalla

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The second Spacing Ottawa Gowalla trip went online this week. Drawing heavily on the excellent West Side Action blog by community activist Eric Darwin of the Dalhousie Community Association, the interpretive tour takes the walker past eight Chinatown attractions from the impossible-to-miss splendour of the Royal Chinatown Arch through lesser-known oddities like a Dutch-style woonerf and the so-called “staircase house” built into the rock face of an escarpment, with a few stops for authentic Chinatown refreshments along the way.

Gowalla trips are best enjoyed from a smart phone or mobile device connected to a data network.

photo by Rick Bond

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4 comments

  1. How would you do this on gowalla? I’m an avid user of gowalla and I can’t figure out how to do this trip

  2. Yep, I can see about 20 trips.. some from Montreal and the Scott Pilgrim one from toronto. All the rest are from the states.