{"id":3625,"date":"2025-04-13T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:57:39","slug":"the-prater-and-riesenrad-vienna-13-apr-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/the-prater-and-riesenrad-vienna-13-apr-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prater and Riesenrad, Vienna (13 Apr 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.praterwien.com\/en\/home\">Prater<\/a> amusement park and the very famous <a href=\"https:\/\/wienerriesenrad.com\/en\/home-2\/\">Riesenrad<\/a> wheel were next. The park and wheel are famous in part as they were one of the locations for that wonderful film, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Third_Man\">The Third Man<\/a>. I had also wanted to see the sewers used towards the end, but we were too early in the year &#8211; tours of those only start in May. We met my friend&#8217;s daughter, her partner and their daughter there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The views from the wheel unfold slowly &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t go fast, and while it&#8217;s loading us into the cars keeps stopping. It has some special cars for dinning, and one with a glass floor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"973\" height=\"731\" data-id=\"3627\" src=\"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20250413_115431331_0973.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20250413_115431331_0973.jpg 973w, https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20250413_115431331_0973-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20250413_115431331_0973-508x382.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"973\" height=\"731\" 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The park and wheel are famous in part as they were one of the locations for that wonderful film, The Third Man. I had also wanted to see the sewers used towards the end, but we were too early in the year &#8211;&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[414,422,43,44,397],"tags":[428,427,423],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-414","category-austria","category-colour","category-digital-type","category-pixel-8a","tag-prater","tag-riesenrad","tag-vienna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}