{"id":1801,"date":"2011-09-19T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T23:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdhive.org\/glob\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2012-05-26T19:51:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T02:51:48","slug":"to-timmins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"to Timmins"},"content":{"rendered":"

2011\/09\/19<\/p>\n

Today was just driving from North Bay to Timmins. No significant stops or photos, though here’s one of one of those picturesque swamps I like so much:<\/p>\n

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Not a great day for driving though – mostly another rainy day.<\/p>\n

I came to Timmins to check out the area, since I often see land for sale around here, and also because I wanted to visit the gold mine and take the tour.\u00a0 Sadly it appears the tours don’t run Mondays and Tuesdays during the off season, so I guess I picked exactly the wrong time to arrive here.<\/p>\n

I also picked a bad time for another reason: the town is full.\u00a0 My first three hotel choices were all full, and I ended up getting stuck with a lousy room.\u00a0 I hope I’m able to get a decent sleep tonight, but if not, luckily tomorrow is going to be a short drive.<\/p>\n

So if you’re ever travelling in this area, take note: Timmins and surrounding area are typically packed on Mondays and Tuesdays.\u00a0 There are no special events or conferences going on here; it just happens for some reason.<\/p>\n

From what I saw of the town while looking for a room, I don’t like it much.\u00a0 It looks like an overgrown small town and lacks polish and decoration, and it’s all grungy – a wrong-side-of-the-tracks sort of place.<\/p>\n

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2011\/09\/19 Today was just driving from North Bay to Timmins. No significant stops or photos, though here’s one of one of those picturesque swamps I like so much: Not a great day for driving though – mostly another rainy day. I came to Timmins to check out the area, since I often see land for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}