{"id":354,"date":"2011-08-11T11:07:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T09:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2011\/08\/11\/kampa-island-2\/"},"modified":"2012-11-11T16:19:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T15:19:46","slug":"kampa-island-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2011\/08\/11\/kampa-island-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kampa Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 last photo, I am indeed a lucky man.<\/div>\n
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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 … 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":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[71,30,69,70],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MK34-5I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":213,"url":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2010\/10\/26\/a-mala-strana-sunday\/","url_meta":{"origin":354,"position":0},"title":"A Mala Strana Sunday","author":"Karin","date":"October 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Mala Strana (started around 1257) is a district of Prague and the name means Lesser Town or Lesser Side.\u00a0 One can reach it by leaving Old Town and walking across Charles Bridge.\u00a0 Voila!\u00a0 You are there!\u00a0 Right below the Prague Castle!\u00a0Mala Strana is home to Kampa Island, Petrin Hill, Maltese\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Places"","block_context":{"text":"Places","link":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/category\/places\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Infant-of-Prague-church-Karin-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9,"url":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2009\/11\/24\/how-it-started\/","url_meta":{"origin":354,"position":1},"title":"How it started","author":"Michael","date":"November 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Our small island paradise on Paros does get a bit tedious during the winter. \u00a0The weather is usually better than most other places we could go yet it is not good for getting out and around with our motor scooters. \u00a0More importantly our area becomes like a ghost town. \u00a0There\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10016,"url":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2017\/10\/07\/another-czech-tidy-town-to-visit\/","url_meta":{"origin":354,"position":2},"title":"Another Czech tidy town to visit","author":"Michael","date":"October 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"In the Czech village of Louka, in southern Moravia, one\u00a090-year-old\u00a0woman volunteers to beautify the homes of her neighbors.\u00a0Agnes Kasparkova is a former farmer who picked up a new hobby in her retirement\u2014painting.\u00a0\u00a0She uses her spare time to paint traditional Moravian motifs in bright\u00a0blue-ultramarine across the walls of Louka's buildings. 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