{"id":1194,"date":"2014-03-31T11:13:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T10:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2017-05-20T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T11:59:35","slug":"budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2014\/03\/31\/budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"

In May last year we took a whirlwind, or so it seemed, journey to Budapest, the capital of Hungary.  Under pressure of a deadline for Opinions Post I finally wrote an article about it: Budapest: Majestic City With a Wart<\/a>–now with its own page.<\/p>\n

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Great Market Hall with glazed tile roof<\/p><\/div>\n

Read about some of our other travels within central Europe on our Environs page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In May last year we took a whirlwind, or so it seemed, journey to Budapest, the capital of Hungary.  Under pressure of a deadline for Opinions Post I finally wrote an article about it: Budapest: Majestic City With a Wart–now … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Budapest: Guide and Travel Tips","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[60,62],"tags":[280,281,282],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2MK34-budapest","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":354,"url":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2011\/08\/11\/kampa-island-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1194,"position":0},"title":"Kampa Island","author":"Michael","date":"August 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning I read again Karin's account of our visit to Kampa Island. \u00a0Once again I was impressed with the quality of her photos, the appropriateness of her researched comments and with her evocative imagination. \u00a0She is a most excellent personal tour guide. \u00a0In relation to the caption of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Places"","block_context":{"text":"Places","link":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/category\/places\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3788,"url":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2015\/12\/20\/dresden-christmas-charm\/","url_meta":{"origin":1194,"position":1},"title":"Dresden: Christmas Charm","author":"Michael","date":"December 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow, we were impressed with Dresden, its Christmas markets and its people. \u00a0Of course it doesn't have the beauty and charm of Prague but we found the people exceptionally friendly and the markets were clean and very charmingly decorated and seemed to offer better products and food. 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