{"id":274,"date":"2009-08-22T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/194@hovorka.org\/Blogs\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T16:21:00","slug":"going-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/22\/going-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denise and I never backpacked through Europe after college. I&#8217;m not sure I even realized it was an option, but I probably wouldn&#8217;t have appreciated it back then anyway. So now, 20-something-mumble-mumble years later, off we go to backpack through Europe &#8211; of course Denise is much younger than me so it&#8217;s only been a couple of years after college for her <img src='http:\/\/hovorka.org\/Blogs\/pivotx\/includes\/emoticons\/trillian\/e_01.gif' alt=':-)' \/> Although the budget will be slightly larger than a college kid can afford, it won&#8217;t be by much. We won&#8217;t be staying in $10 a night youth hostels, but we won&#8217;t be staying in big chain hotels either. We will be staying at Mom-and-Pop hotels-pensions-zimmers. More along the lines of a bed and breakfast in some cases, or just a really small hotel in others. Much cheaper than chain hotels. Living where we do, you can&#8217;t help but get infected by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricksteves.com\/\" target=\"newwindow\">Rick Steves<\/a> and his style of European budget travel. Hopefully his recommendations are good.<\/p>\n<p>Also unlike college kids, we won&#8217;t get to travel for 3 months or more. This trip is limited to 3 weeks (still nothing to complain about). One drawback of being a responsible adult, you can&#8217;t go off for 3 months, not if you want to keep your job (but I guess I could lug around a laptop. Hmm, maybe I should rethink this trip).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denise and I never backpacked through Europe after college. I&#8217;m not sure I even realized it was an option, but I probably wouldn&#8217;t have appreciated it back then anyway. So now, 20-something-mumble-mumble years later, off we go to backpack through Europe &#8211; of course Denise is much younger than me so it&#8217;s only been a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/22\/going-to-europe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going to Europe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}