{"id":709,"date":"2009-07-25T18:58:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T18:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/?p=709"},"modified":"2009-07-25T18:58:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T18:58:01","slug":"working-in-wroclaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2009\/07\/25\/working-in-wroclaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Working in Wroc\u0142aw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently spent a week working at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/\">Opera&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wroclaw-life.com\/\">Wroc\u0142aw<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wroc\u0142aw\">Wikipedia<\/a>). office, we have quite a lot of the Opera Mini server team based there.<\/p>\n<p>The journey is pretty easy, Ryanair fly direct from Skavsta to Wroc\u0142aw, so it&#8217;s just the usual torments of flying with an airline that hates passengers.  We got there about lunchtime, checked in at the Scandic and then wandered down to the market square for a beer and some solid Polish food.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Poland\/Wroclaw\/July09\/BuildingInEveningSun_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Poland\/Wroclaw\/July09\/BuildingInEveningSun_t.jpg\" title=\"A building in Wroclaw's main square in the evening sun.\" alt=\"A tall old building lit by low evening sun.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Poland\/Wroclaw\/July09\/TownHall1_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Poland\/Wroclaw\/July09\/TownHall1_t.jpg\" title=\"Wroclaw's old town hall, on the main square.\" alt=\"A elaborately decorated old building with towers, spires and a clock.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt was a really fun week, the team took us to lots of nice restaurants for lunch and it&#8217;s always good to spend some time with people you normally only see by video-conference.  I especially liked the Spi\u017c bar\/brewery on the square, whenever you bought a beer you got handed a lard sandwich to go with it.  Food and drink are very cheap compared to Sweden, especially lunch at Mi\u015b Bar &mdash; where you can get platefuls of dumplings for a few z\u0142oty.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a city full of statues and monuments, this one was right across the road from the hotel:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Poland\/Wroclaw\/July09\/StatuesCrossingTheRoad_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Poland\/Wroclaw\/July09\/StatuesCrossingTheRoad_t.jpg\" title=\"A sculpture on both sides of the road opposite our hotel.\" alt=\"Metal statues of pedestrians walking towards a road, descending through the pavement and emerging on the other side.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently spent a week working at Opera&#8217;s Wroc\u0142aw (Wikipedia). office, we have quite a lot of the Opera Mini server team based there. The journey is pretty easy, Ryanair fly direct from Skavsta to Wroc\u0142aw, so it&#8217;s just the usual torments of flying with an airline that hates passengers. We got there about lunchtime, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}