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#OTTBLOG: Recent reads from the Ottawa Blogosphere, Volume 2

Here’s what we’ve been reading this week from Ottawa bloggers:

 * 
**
 Andrea
**
from Fishbowl shares why
[
 newspaper closures hit close to home for her
](http://quietfish.com/notebook/2017/11/close-to-home/)
.

 * 
**
 Ross
**
shares
[
 some amazing pics of kitesurfers
](https://rossbrownfoot.blogspot.ca/2017/11/wordless-wednesday-kitesurfers.html)
.

 * 
**
 Chris
**
tells the story of
[
 El Ropo Restaurant
](http://www.historynerd.ca/2017/11/26/the-el-ropo-restaurant/)
in Vanier.

 * 
**
 Eric
**
peeks into the future to
[
 look at downtown bus routes post-LRT
](http://www.westsideaction.com/oc-transpo-bus-routes-downtown-2018-version/)
.

 * 
**
 Jonathan
**
looks at
[
 what we can learn from the Grey Cup to make Lansdowne more successful
](https://stepsfromthecanal.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/replicating-the-success-of-the-grey-cup/)
as an urban space.

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