{"id":399,"date":"2014-12-04T22:45:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T05:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2014-12-04T22:45:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T05:45:48","slug":"thanksgiving-in-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving in Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of great days in Prague, whose old city, castle and restaurants proved to be a delight. We stayed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitas.cz\">Unitas hotel<\/a>, which was excellent and surprisingly inexpensive. I went light photographically with the Sony RX100 II and that did not disappoint either; I continue to be impressed by the dynamic range you can pull out of the raw files (see for example the cathedral interior below). My sole gripe continues to be the lack of a viewfinder (get the mark three version for that reason alone) but in the absence of sun composing on the LCD wasn&#8217;t as painful as normal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_bridge-1024x409.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Bridge at night, Prague\" width=\"640\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_bridge-1024x409.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_bridge-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_bridge-500x200.jpg 500w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_bridge.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><em>Charles Bridge, Prague<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_fire-767x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Street performers in Prague\" width=\"640\" height=\"854\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_fire-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_fire-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_fire.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><em>Street performers in the main square<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_gulls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_gulls-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Prague at night\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_gulls-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_gulls-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_gulls-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_gulls.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><em>Where the gulls go to roost<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_st_vitus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_st_vitus-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"St Vitus Cathedral Prague\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_st_vitus-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_st_vitus-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_st_vitus-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_st_vitus.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><em>St Vitus cathedral<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_elevator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_elevator-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"prague_elevator\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_elevator-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_elevator-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prague_elevator.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><em>The Escher-like interior of the town hall tower<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of great days in Prague, whose old city, castle and restaurants proved to be a delight. We stayed at the Unitas hotel, which was excellent and surprisingly inexpensive. I went light photographically with the Sony RX100 II and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locations","category-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}