Thinking about the "sister city" thing following a radio piece, and about how it seems pretty meaningless in many cases.
I had no idea where Ottawa's sister city is. It never seems to be mentioned nor celebrated here. Turns out we have two – Beijing and Catania.
Presumably it's supposed to foster trade and tourism relationships, but I suspect beyond an initial announcement, it usually fades into obscurity.
Does your city celebrate and build on a sister city relationship?
Afraid to say I didn't know of the city of Catania at all - apparently it's the second largest city in Sicily, at the foot of Mt Etna.
I can see why we were paired, probably our mutual volcano threat experiences. 😂
I imagine it's rather warm there today!
@oblomov Oh! Didn't know you were a sister-citizen.
We'll have to urge the cities send delegations to renew the connection. :)
fun fact, I was looking at the list of our “gemellaggi” (the gemellaggio, twinning literally, is how we call in italian the relationship of being sister cities)
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catania
and Ottowa is there, but not Beijing, so I'm guessing being a sister city is not a transitive relationship 8-D
Ross of Ottawa
Oblomov