{"id":10,"date":"2013-05-10T06:02:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T06:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/wordpress\/?p=10"},"modified":"2013-05-10T06:02:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T06:02:13","slug":"where-were-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Where we&#8217;re going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People have been asking me recently about where we&#8217;re going. \u00a0While I have only a vague idea of all the places that we will be hitting in the next 1-2 years, I have a pretty good idea of where we&#8217;ll be going in the next 1 month or so. \u00a0Like last time we will be following the words of wisdom of our European travel guru Rick Steves&#8217;. \u00a0Check him out on PBS if you have time. \u00a0And if you are planning any trips to Europe I encourage you to pick up one of his guide books. \u00a0It is $20 well spent.<\/p>\n<p>For our itinerary this time, we will be hitting the following cities (in this approximate order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Istanbul, Turkey<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Ljubljana, Slovenia<\/li>\n<li>Bled, Slovenia<\/li>\n<li>Plitvice Lakes, Croatia<\/li>\n<li>Split, Croatia<\/li>\n<li>Dubrovnik, Croatia<\/li>\n<li>Copenhagen, Denmark<\/li>\n<li>Budapest, Hungary<\/li>\n<li>Vienna, Austria<\/li>\n<li>Krakow, Poland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can you spot the odd one out? \u00a0Is that a typo? \u00a0It&#8217;s not a typo, we are really going to Copenhagen, Denmark between Croatia and Hungary. \u00a0What? \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t make sense to you? \u00a0Well it doesn&#8217;t make sense to me either that it should be cheaper to buy an airplane ticket that goes from Croatia to Denmark, and Denmark to Budapest than to fly from Croatia to Slovenia to Budapest. \u00a0But cheaper it is and so to Denmark we go.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you (like me) who are not good at geography, here&#8217;s a map:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcmap.com\/map?P=dbv-cph-bud&amp;MS=wls&amp;MR=120&amp;MX=540x540&amp;PM=*\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here&#8217;s our flight from Dubrovnik (DBV) to Budhapest (BUD) via Copenhagen (CPH). Yes, this was really cheaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We actually stopped in Copenhagen on our last visit to Europe, so we will only be staying over night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have been asking me recently about where we&#8217;re going. \u00a0While I have only a vague idea of all the places that we will be hitting in the next 1-2 years, I have a pretty good idea of where we&#8217;ll be going in the next 1 month or so. \u00a0Like last time we will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}