{"id":2711,"date":"2016-08-02T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T22:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2016-08-02T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T22:02:34","slug":"hello-bratislava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/02\/hello-bratislava\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Bratislava!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bratislava,<\/a> Bratislava is a lovely city in Slovakia. We didn’t have a lot of time there — just most of one day — but we took a “general” city tour, followed by a walking tour of the old section.<\/p>\n

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See how it sits right on the river?<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_1526\"<\/a>\"Bratislava,<\/a>This is a remnant of one of the old city gates. The street is now a shopping district. One of the things we enjoyed about Bratislava was finding various statues scattered here and there. This one is very whimsical, showing a workman coming out of a manhole!<\/p>\n

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Bratislava is a lovely city in Slovakia. We didn’t have a lot of time there — just most of one day — but we took a “general” city tour, followed by a walking tour of the old section.         See how it sits right on the river?           […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[309],"tags":[224],"class_list":{"0":"post-2711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-travel","8":"tag-travel","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Bratislava-Slovakia.jpg?fit=480%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-HJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2693,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/01\/goodbye-budapest\/","url_meta":{"origin":2711,"position":0},"title":"Goodbye, Budapest!","author":"Sandy","date":"August 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Our time in Budapest drew to a close, and so off we sailed. 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