{"id":532,"date":"2017-05-19T17:54:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T21:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spintheglobe.net\/dir\/?p=532"},"modified":"2017-10-16T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T13:49:05","slug":"podcast-accessible-destinations-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spintheglobe.net\/dir\/2017\/05\/19\/podcast-accessible-destinations-vienna\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Accessible Destinations – Vienna, Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vienna is easily my favorite city in the whole world! \u00a0I don’t know if that is due to its beauty, culture, history, or the fact that it’s the most wheelchair accessible place I’ve ever had the pleasure of rolling around. \u00a0In this installment of my Accessible Destinations series, \u00a0I will give you an overview of what makes accessible Vienna<\/a>, well…Vienna: its history, culture, food, the people, and the general vibe. Then I will pull from one of my blog posts and talk about eight of the best wheelchair accessible must-see places in the city. \u00a0I will give you some tips for how to get from point A to point B in the city using different types of accessible transportation, and finally help you close the deal by showing you how you can travel there.<\/p>\n

Interested in visiting elegant Vienna? Stop by my travel agency website at\u00a0<\/em>Spin the Globe\/travel<\/a>\u00a0and ask me how I can get you there!<\/em><\/p>\n


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Vienna is easily my favorite city in the whole world! \u00a0I don’t know if that is due to its beauty, culture, history, or the fact that it’s the most wheelchair accessible place I’ve ever had … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":533,"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[867,30],"tags":[869,111,172,870,868,171,153],"yst_prominent_words":[322,349,225,1479,528,1480,1248,544,781,332,534],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-travelogue","tag-accessible-destinations","tag-accessible-travel","tag-austria","tag-featured","tag-podcast","tag-vienna","tag-wheelchair-accessible","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spintheglobe.net\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Spin-the-Globe-Podcast-Accessible-Destinations-Vienna-Austria.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8IhCJ-8A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":368,"url":"https:\/\/spintheglobe.net\/dir\/2017\/04\/01\/wheelchair-accessible-things-to-do-vienna\/","url_meta":{"origin":532,"position":0},"title":"8 Wheelchair Accessible Things to Do in Vienna","author":"Sylvia Longmire","date":"April 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I can say without a doubt that Vienna is one of the loveliest - and coincidentally one of the most wheelchair friendly - cities I've ever visited. 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