{"id":55,"date":"2016-04-03T08:47:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T06:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/?p=55"},"modified":"2016-04-15T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T07:03:56","slug":"stellenbosch-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/03\/stellenbosch-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellenbosch arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stellenbosch is a really beautiful town &#8212; and I&#8217;ve only seen a few streets and buildings so far. From the west of the city&#8217;s center Andringa Street and it&#8217;s Pubs &amp; Restaurants, it is only a few blocks down to find oneselve in the midst of Stellenbosch University with it&#8217;s old beautiful buildings, the broad and tree-covered allays\u00a0 &#8212; and this amazing library.<\/p>\n<p>Built underneath the plaza &#8222;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.za\/maps\/@-33.9326871,18.8642552,3a,75y,264.95h,79.24t\/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sq47mtGN8r9wpdsvWd9pTxw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Dq47mtGN8r9wpdsvWd9pTxw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.TACTILE.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D392%26h%3D106%26yaw%3D127.1972%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656\">Jan S. Marias Plein<\/a>&#8222;, this library offers books on end, and a most-amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/library.sun.ac.za\/English\/aboutus\/libraryspaces\/rc\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Carnegie Research room<\/a> with separate work-spaces, lounge chairs, chaise longue, coffee bar and a separate rooms for meetings and videoconferencing. Ideal to work, study along and discuss with others at the same time&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25\" src=\"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0486_small-300x200.png\" alt=\"House on VanRiebeck St. \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0486_small-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0486_small-768x512.png 768w, http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0486_small.png 972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8222;House on VanRiebeck St.&#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Right on the Van Riebeck St. one finds the entry to the beautiful &#8222;Botanical Gardens&#8220; of the University. The SUN prides itselve about the garden and very rightfully so.<\/p>\n<p>The houses on the street have very nice vegetation as well, various trees and bushes that start to turn their colorful leaves as Autumn commences.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday was my first day in Stellenbosch, my first walk around the town. Many more will follow.<\/p>\n<p>This entry&#8217;s picture above is a stitch from various pictures of the view of my office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stellenbosch is a really beautiful town &#8212; and I&#8217;ve only seen a few streets and buildings so far. From the west of the city&#8217;s center Andringa Street and it&#8217;s Pubs &amp; Restaurants, it is only a few blocks down to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/03\/stellenbosch-arrival\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-town-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}