Canadian Gardening: Canada Through Your Eyes part 2, 1 by ViolaAnn

ViolaAnn wrote:
After lunch, we took the bus tour of Ottawa. Good tour, but it didn't allow for picture stops. It WAS hop-on, hop-off, but the frequency of the runs didn't really allow much flexibility. Perhaps in the real peak tourist season it is more frequent, I don't know. We walked north from the National Gallery towards the Canadian Mint to get the bus and we saw this truck parked in front of the mint.

Two hours later as we came along on the tour bus, RCMP officers (mounties), but not in scarlet tunics, were stopping traffic as the large truck backed into the mint. The tour-bus driver speculated that it was picking up a shipment of coins for Mexico and would be escorted all the way to its destination by police cars in front and behind.