{"id":8803,"date":"2005-04-11T04:36:58","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T01:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/11\/driving-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T11:46:41","slug":"driving-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/11\/driving-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I accidentally found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idealspain.com\/Pages\/Information\/DrivingSpain.htm\">this page<\/a>, which provides a lot of information about driving in Spain.  Rules, laws, and tips are all there.  The article is written with British audience in mind, which is nice, since everything said is easily applied on to Cypriot audience.<\/p>\n<p>I am amazed at how strict some laws in Spain and EU are.  I guess these will be coming soon to Cyprus too.  On one hand I do support expensive fines and license removals for traffic rules&#8217; offenders.  On the other hand, I am an often offender myself and I will surely suffer from a draconian system.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I accidentally found this page, which provides a lot of information about driving in Spain. Rules, laws, and tips are all there. The article is written with British audience in mind, which is nice, since everything said is easily applied on to Cypriot audience. I am amazed at how strict some laws in Spain and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/11\/driving-in-spain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Driving in Spain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,116,2918],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-driving","tag-europe","tag-spain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22133,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/05\/cakefest-2014-at-madrid-spain-during-august-21-24\/","url_meta":{"origin":8803,"position":0},"title":"CakeFest 2014 at Madrid, Spain during August 21-24","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I am seriously considering going to CakeFest this year. \u00a0Madrid is not too far away to fly to. \u00a0The event takes place over the weekend, so work stuff can be easily arranged. \u00a0And it doesn't cost too much - a 2-day conference with the 4-star hotel is only $480 USD\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16727,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/19\/jamon\/","url_meta":{"origin":8803,"position":1},"title":"Jam\u00f3n","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 19, 2012","format":"image","excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/jamon.jpg?fit=600%2C828&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/jamon.jpg?fit=600%2C828&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/jamon.jpg?fit=600%2C828&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16463,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/12\/san-fermin-2012\/","url_meta":{"origin":8803,"position":2},"title":"San Fermin 2012","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 12, 2012","format":"image","excerpt":"Via Big Picture, that has a few more pictures.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/San-Fermin-2012.jpg?fit=990%2C636&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/San-Fermin-2012.jpg?fit=990%2C636&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/San-Fermin-2012.jpg?fit=990%2C636&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/San-Fermin-2012.jpg?fit=990%2C636&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":25168,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/11\/cakefest-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":8803,"position":3},"title":"CakeFest 2016","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I've just purchased my ticket for CakeFest 2016! 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