{"id":312,"date":"2009-07-13T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2009-10-28T18:09:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T17:09:47","slug":"bratislava-slovakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Bratislava, Slovakia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>En route to Budapest we ventured through the city of Bratislava in the early morning. At just 60km away from Vienna, they&#8217;re the closest capital cities in Europe.\u00a0 There is a great mixture of architecture, spanning from medieval towers in the Old Town area, to the splendor of 20th century buildings. Bratislava also spans the Danube river, with the castle prominently displayed on the hill &#8211; unfortunately closed at the moment for renovations.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1669.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1669-s.jpg\" alt=\"Hviezdoslavovo n\u00e1mestie statue\" height=\"267\" title=\"Hviezdoslavovo n\u00e1mestie statue\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nStatue near Hviezdoslavovo N\u00e1mestie<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1675.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1675-s.jpg\" alt=\"Michalsk\u00e1 Br\u00e1na Hotel\" title=\"Michalsk\u00e1 Br\u00e1na Hotel\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMichalsk\u00e1 Br\u00e1na Hotel<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1679.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1679-s.jpg\" alt=\"Ba\u0161tov\u00e1 Ulica\" height=\"400\" title=\"Ba\u0161tov\u00e1 Ulica\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBastova Ulica<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1682.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1682-s.jpg\" alt=\"Michalsk\u00e1 br\u00e1na Hotel\" height=\"267\" title=\"Michalsk\u00e1 br\u00e1na Hotel\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1683.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1683-s.jpg\" alt=\"Kapuc\u00ednsky kostol\" height=\"267\" title=\"Kapuc\u00ednsky kostol\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBratislava Church &#8211; Kapuc\u00ednsky kostol, and tram lines leading to the Castle<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1687.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1687-s.jpg\" alt=\"St Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava \" height=\"267\" title=\"St Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava \" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSt Martin&#8217;s Cathedral<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1733.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_1733-s.jpg\" alt=\"St Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava \" height=\"400\" title=\"St Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava \" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSt Martin&#8217;s Cathedral<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=warrenwilliams\" class=\"addthis_button\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" height=\"16\" style=\"border: 0px\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pub=warrenwilliams\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En route to Budapest we ventured through the city of Bratislava in the early morning. At just 60km away from Vienna, they&#8217;re the closest capital cities in Europe.\u00a0 There is a great mixture of architecture, spanning from medieval towers in the Old Town area, to the splendor of 20th century buildings. Bratislava also spans the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-history","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}