{"id":1789,"date":"2013-03-29T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/03\/29\/compatibility-issues\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T07:29:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T06:29:59","slug":"compatibility-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/03\/29\/compatibility-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatibility issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a yet another rant. If you don&rsquo;t like rants, don&rsquo;t read. ;)<\/p>\n<p>Fresh Madrid experiences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&rsquo;m incompatible with Spanish work hours. For some reason, my credit card doesn&rsquo;t work on ALSA website, so I went to the bus station to buy a ticket to Barcelona. Guess what: ticket offices observe siesta too! Working hours for this specific ticket office were 8-13 + 15-20. Ooh, you&rsquo;re in a hurry? Too bad.<\/li>\n<li>More incompatibility: because of the closed ticket office I had plenty of free time, so I decided to visit Matadero. Guess what? Opening hours: 16-22. I used to think Poland was a crazy place, but it seems every country has its own peculiarities.<\/li>\n<li>Madrid is so big I use Google Maps as a GPS all the time. One time I decided to just consult the map once and then just walk and admire the architecture*. Even though it was just one long straight street, I took the wrong turn** and ended up in a wrong place.<\/li>\n<li>Even though it&rsquo;s Spain, it can rain cats and dogs here. And it does.<\/li>\n<li>I found a perfect place: English cafe &amp; bookstore. Too bad I&rsquo;m leaving tomorrow, so I could only drink one coffee there.<\/li>\n<li>A few days ago a young black guy selling glasses on the beach recommended McDonalds and KFC to me. I didn&rsquo;t understand it back then; I do now: they&rsquo;re the cheapest ways to eat, especially for a foreigner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enough rants. Going to Barcelona tomorrow; I&rsquo;m so awaiting that eight hour bus trip. If only I was a drinking person I could get myself totally hammered like any self-respecting Polish tourist; alas, this is not an option.<\/p>\n<p>*A joke. Madrid is about as beautiful as Warsaw: a few monumental historic buildings here or there and the usual shit everywhere else.<br \/>**I kid you not. Wrong turn. On a straight street. On an intersection bigger than a football stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a yet another rant. If you don&rsquo;t like rants, don&rsquo;t read. ;) Fresh Madrid experiences: I&rsquo;m incompatible with Spanish work hours. For some reason, my credit card doesn&rsquo;t work on ALSA website, so I went to the bus station to buy a ticket to Barcelona. Guess what: ticket offices observe siesta too! Working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}