{"id":4010,"date":"2017-12-09T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2018-01-17T10:01:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T08:01:34","slug":"slovenia-2017-weekend-in-graz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4010","title":{"rendered":"Slovenia 2017 &#8211; Weekend in Graz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned previously, Tanya insisted on coming along on this trip because she has a scrapbooking friend in Graz.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8370r.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8370r\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8370r.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8370r-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So the first stop was a rather large arts crafts and scrapbooking place, after which we found parking close to the <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grazer_Dom\">Graz Cathedral<\/a> and walked down Hofgasse and Sporgasse into the centre of town &#8212; which was packed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4017\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3053r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3053r.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3053r-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3054r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3054r.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3054r-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The weather wasn&#8217;t so great for photographs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8375r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8375r.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8375r-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the view from <a href=\"http:\/\/freiblick.co.at\/\">Freiblick<\/a>, a rooftop cafe above\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kastner-oehler.at\/\">Kastner &amp; \u00d6hler<\/a>. It was cold. The wind chill up there was bracing. There were people sitting outside having coffee and stuff. I suppose you get used to the cold.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3130r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3130r.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3130r-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our hosts had booked us into the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripadvisor.co.za\/Hotel_Review-g1172194-d9719492-Reviews-Gasthof_Grosschedl_zum_Kramerwirt-Lassnitzhoehe_Graz_Styria.html\">Gasthof Grosschedl zum Kramerwirt<\/a> which is close to where they stay, outside Graz. Slightly upmarket from what I normally pick, very nice of course.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4056\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SnowPanorama-r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SnowPanorama-r.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SnowPanorama-r-300x82.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8416r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8416r.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8416r-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and back to Maribor, where it had snowed while we were in Austria.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3161cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3161cr.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3161cr-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4023\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3165r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3165r.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_3165r-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pieter found us a very nice place just around the corner from the main square, on the river. This is the view from there, facing south. The building on the left is the Maribor U Faculty of Medicine. We had the place to ourself &#8212; Pieter was still booked into his place for one night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4039\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8418r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8418r.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8418r-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4041 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8417r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8417r.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8417r-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_8417r-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned previously, Tanya insisted on coming along on this trip because she has a scrapbooking friend in Graz. So the first stop was a rather large arts crafts and scrapbooking place, after which we found parking close to the Graz Cathedral and walked down Hofgasse and Sporgasse into the centre of town &#8212; which was packed. The weather wasn&#8217;t so great for photographs. This is the view from Freiblick, a rooftop cafe above\u00a0Kastner &amp; \u00d6hler. It was cold. The wind chill up there was bracing. There were people sitting outside having coffee and stuff. I suppose you get used&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slovenia-2017","category-travelography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}