{"id":533,"date":"2011-05-15T22:58:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T20:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paualready.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2011-05-15T22:58:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T20:58:13","slug":"a-castle-in-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"A castle in the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Sunday, 15 May<\/h3>\n<p>Wawel, atop the only significant hill in this rather planar portion of Poland, is the site of the Royal Castle and a cathedral and it was our first destination for this cool and rainy day. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wawel.krakow.pl\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wawel<\/a>, like most castle complexes, developed over centuries and construction here began in 9<sup>th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 For me, the highlights of Wawel were the armaments collection that I found far more impressive than that at The Tower of London and a walk through a section of the archeological excavation. I dig that dig stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Stop 2 for the day was Schindler\u2019s factory, but first a stop at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podwawelem.eu\/strona.php?podstr=galeria&amp;lang=pl\" target=\"_blank\">Pod Wawelem<\/a>, a pub known for huge portions of artery-clogging calories and liters of beer. Refueled, a quick cab ride took us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krakowflats.com\/blog\/Oskar-Schindlers-Enamel-Factory-90.html\" target=\"_blank\">Oskar Schindler\u2019s Enamel Factory<\/a>, now a branch of the Historical Museum of the City of Krak\u00f3w. The exhibit is an expansive display combining photos, multimedia and artifacts from the plant and we arrived a bit late to really take it all in. Even with our somewhat rushed visit, it was an impressive exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Laurel\u2019s been fighting some sort of crud for the last few days, so after dinner in Kazimierz, Krak\u00f3w\u2019s Jewish community, we called it a day.<\/p>\n<p>[imagebrowser id=5]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, 15 May Wawel, atop the only significant hill in this rather planar portion of Poland, is the site of the Royal Castle and a cathedral and it was our first destination for this cool and rainy day. Wawel, like most castle complexes, developed over centuries and construction here began in 9th century.\u00a0 For me, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/?p=533\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A castle in the rain<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euro-east-2011","category-trips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6E0Kx-8B","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}