{"id":4215,"date":"2023-04-25T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2023-04-25T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T18:05:52","slug":"sofia-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/25\/sofia-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia, So Far!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happily, everything went according to plan and we landed in Sofia right on time at 2:00 p.m. Bulgarian time (7:00 a.m. in Atlanta). We had an early morning layover in Paris with plenty of time for a walk, Wordle, a chocolate croissant, and coffee.<\/p>\n<p>The temps in Sofia are chilly and the skies grey with rain off and on.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4216\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4216 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_9730-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_9730-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_9730-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_9730-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_9730-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_9730-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_9730-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cloudy in Sofia &#8211; View From the Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here\u2019s how travel writer Vinicius Costa describes this city: \u00a0\u201cIn Sofia, the capital and largest city, tourists will find an <strong>improbable combination of Roman ruins and Communist-era Brutalism<\/strong>, numerous cafes oozing with character, a lively nightlife, and the country\u2019s best museums and art galleries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This evening, we\u2019re staying close to our base at Eurostars Sofia City Hotel &#8211; we\u2019re resting up, anxious to begin exploring this city tomorrow! \u00a0We\u2019ll be here for 3 more days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happily, everything went according to plan and we landed in Sofia right on time at 2:00 p.m. Bulgarian time (7:00 a.m. in Atlanta). We had an early morning layover in Paris with plenty of time for a walk, Wordle, a chocolate croissant, and coffee. The temps in Sofia are chilly and the skies grey with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/25\/sofia-so-far\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sofia, So Far!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulgaria-romania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4221,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}