{"id":91,"date":"2009-08-13T18:44:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikes-photos.co.uk\/?p=91"},"modified":"2009-08-13T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T18:44:11","slug":"the-build-up-to-the-wedding-the-trip-and-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikes-photos.co.uk\/wordpress\/wedding\/the-build-up-to-the-wedding-the-trip-and-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Build up to the wedding &#8211; Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We eventually got to Madrid on the Tuesday and had a couple of nights with Mum, Pat and Mike.\u00a0I met up with a couple of friends from Madrid and spent most of the time\u00a0having beer and tapas. What could be better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We stayed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.room-matehotels.com\/eng\/madridhotel\/aliciahotel\/aliciahotel.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Room Mates Alicia hotel<\/a> on Plaza Santa Ana and\u00a0I can&#8217;t recomend it highly enough. Great value for a good hotel which is in a great location. Paddy certainly enjoyed the bed on the terrace and\u00a0I fell asleep on it one night too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u00a0finally got to see Madrid Cathederal. It&#8217;s ok but not great.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u00a0went back to one of my favourite places in Madrid &#8216;La Venencia&#8217; on Calle Echegaray. They only serve Sherry and a few olives. This is timeouts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/madrid\/restaurants-cafes\/venue\/13360\/la-venencia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">review<\/a> and this is trip advisors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/ShowUserReviews-g187514-d607152-r14987154-La_Venencia-Madrid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Plus\u00a0I found a new cool bar courtesy of Paddy and his XDC mate from Madrid. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapmagazine.com\/madrid\/Best-Sangria-Bar-in-Madrid-Cuevas-de-Sesamo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Las Cuevas de Sesamo<\/a> which is on the parallel street Calle Principe. Sangria all round.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We also ran around a few museums and I can now say with some certainty that Matisse produced a lot of crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We eventually got to Madrid on the Tuesday and had a couple of nights with Mum, Pat and Mike.\u00a0I met up with a couple of friends from Madrid and spent most of the time\u00a0having beer and tapas. What could be better. We stayed in the Room Mates Alicia hotel on Plaza Santa Ana and\u00a0I can&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[48,49,55,71,77],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wedding","tag-la-venencia","tag-las-cuevas-de-sesamo","tag-madrid","tag-plaza-santa-ana","tag-roommates-alicia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikes-photos.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikes-photos.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikes-photos.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikes-photos.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikes-photos.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikes-photos.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikes-photos.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikes-photos.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikes-photos.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}