{"id":5072,"date":"2011-02-17T00:05:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T05:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:19:00","slug":"chinatowns-lucky-eight-with-eric-darwin-and-gowalla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/02\/17\/chinatowns-lucky-eight-with-eric-darwin-and-gowalla\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinatown&#8217;s Lucky Eight, with Eric Darwin and Gowalla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4149\/5061274111_8d8713865c_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second Spacing Ottawa <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gowalla\">Gowalla<\/a> trip <a href=\"http:\/\/gowalla.com\/trips\/35129\">went online<\/a> this week. Drawing heavily on the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/westsideaction.wordpress.com\/\">West Side Action<\/a> 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 &#8220;staircase house&#8221; built into the rock face of an escarpment, with a few stops for authentic Chinatown refreshments along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Gowalla trips are best enjoyed from a smart phone or mobile device connected to a data network.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickbond79\/5061274111\/in\/set-72157625118603492\/\">Rick Bond<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second Spacing Ottawa Gowalla trip went online this week. 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