{"id":250,"date":"2008-10-23T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T21:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=250"},"modified":"2008-10-23T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T21:17:39","slug":"travelogue-chester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/23\/travelogue-chester\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelogue: Chester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/2967985696\/\" title=\"Starbucks in Chester by TheRichardsons, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3022\/2967985696_0cc82e290f_m.jpg\" alt=\"Starbucks in Chester\" align=\"right\" height=\"240\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a>Out of the Lake District and on to Wales on this grand tour of England!\u00a0 We had pegged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitchester.com\/\">Chester<\/a> as a good stopping point on a short driving day and we were not disappointed.\u00a0 This ancient walled city is right on the border.\u00a0 After a quick lunch at a spot on the second floor that looked out onto the street, we did a little shopping, which it seems is what Chester is known for these days.\u00a0 The &#8220;rows&#8221; as they are known are two floors of shops that line the main streets of the town.\u00a0 No cars allowed so it is relaxing to wander, marveling at the timber architecture amongst the modern retailers.\u00a0 Couldn&#8217;t help but take a picture of the Starbucks!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/2967901112\/\" title=\"Stained Glass by TheRichardsons, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3182\/2967901112_fd24226094.jpg\" alt=\"Stained Glass\" align=\"left\" height=\"254\" width=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We ended with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chestercathedral.com\/\">Cathedral<\/a>: just amazing!\u00a0 Beautiful stained glass windows tucked into soaring arches. \u00a0 A wonderful escape from the commercial buzz outside.\u00a0 We took the audio tour and got lots of great details about the cathedral that dates back to 1092.\u00a0 You can view more photos, mostly of the cathedral, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/sets\/72157608314027527\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the Lake District and on to Wales on this grand tour of England!\u00a0 We had pegged Chester as a good stopping point on a short driving day and we were not disappointed.\u00a0 This ancient walled city is right on the border.\u00a0 After a quick lunch at a spot \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/23\/travelogue-chester\/\"> 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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-42","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}