{"id":1130,"date":"2007-08-30T02:32:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T08:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2007-08-30T02:34:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T08:34:33","slug":"feeling-at-home-in-your-own-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Feeling at home in your own stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1130\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aronski\/1270567005\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1259\/1270567005_7fbed22a49.jpg?v=0\" onload=\"show_notes_initially();\" class=\"reflect\" height=\"351\" width=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am enjoying my second full day in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sopot%2C_Poland\" title=\"Sopot wiki\">Sopot,Poland<\/a>, a small resort\/spa town just north of Gdansk. It is quite rare to have time off on the Baltic Sea and to witness the rebirth of an area as a tourist getaway. Those of us who travel in Europe and elsewhere are used to the prices and crowds of the south of France and Spain as well as other typical warmer Mediterranean getaways. This trip exposed me to the lesser known resort areas of Croatia and now Northern Poland.<\/p>\n<p>You can tell that things get pretty cold here in the winter. The evenings are quite brisk and by looking at the buildings you can tell the wind cuts off the water and straight into your bones. You also in August see the locals storing up on sunshine as there must be some pretty bleak months the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aronski\/1269769471\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1418\/1269769471_291c36475b.jpg?v=0\" onload=\"show_notes_initially();\" class=\"reflect\" height=\"374\" width=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most obvious landmarks is the Molo, Europe&#8217;s longest wooden pier. Over 515 meters, it is a destination for walks and views. From the tip you can catch a pirate ship, a tourist boat or look east and see into Russia. The seagulls are quite fat and sassy, without much fear. I have a few remarkably close shots of some at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aronski\/\" title=\"Aron's Flickr\">my Flickr site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aronski\/1269770455\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1137\/1269770455_cc0f26cea0.jpg?v=0\" onload=\"show_notes_initially();\" class=\"reflect\" height=\"468\" width=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The center of the town includes a walking street called the Bohater<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am enjoying my second full day in Sopot,Poland, a small resort\/spa town just north of Gdansk. It is quite rare to have time off on the Baltic Sea and to witness the rebirth of an area as a tourist getaway. Those of us who travel in Europe and elsewhere are used to the prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[22,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peNcU-ie","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}