{"id":1366,"date":"2015-06-28T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2015-07-11T17:07:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T00:07:49","slug":"happy-birthday-pistoia-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday &#8211; Pistoia, Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another lazy\u00a0day at the Villa. More swimming,\u00a0catching up on reading and just taking it easy. For dinner we decided to try our Host&#8217;s recommendation for a steak-house. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bisteccatoscana.it\" target=\"_blank\">Bisteccatoscana<\/a> was located in downtown Pistoia but we found the place and parking with only one wrong turn &#8211; one would think we almost know our way around. There are no choices at the restaurant except for your beverage. They serve only steak, grilled outside. We could watch the grilling on a monitor above our table. Side dishes were boiled chick peas, potatoes and a fried\/cheesey\/baked eggplant. Dessert of coffee gelato, biscotti and dessert liquors finished the meal. Not a bad way to celebrate\u00a0Bill&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1366 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284796.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"459\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284796.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284796.jpg 459w, https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284796-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1284'>\n\t\t\t\tNice decor\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284797.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"517\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284797.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284797.jpg 517w, https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284797-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1285'>\n\t\t\t\tNice beer\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284799.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284799.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284799.jpg 640w, https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284799-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1287'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;Reserve&#8221; Chianti or &#8220;House&#8221; Chianti &#8211; decisions, decisions  \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284798.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284798.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284798.jpg 640w, https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284798-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1286'>\n\t\t\t\tMain course\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284800.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284800.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284800.jpg 640w, https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284800-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1288'>\n\t\t\t\tEggplant &#8211; doesn&#8217;t look like much here, but oh so good\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284804.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284804.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284804.jpg 640w, https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P6284804-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1291'>\n\t\t\t\tBeer, Chianti, dessert wine, vodka shot, lemon liquor &#8211; all but the first two included with the meal &#8211; they were seriously trying to get us drunk\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another lazy&nbsp;day at the Villa. More swimming,&nbsp;catching up on reading and just taking it easy. For dinner we decided to try our Host&rsquo;s recommendation for a steak-house. Bisteccatoscana was located in downtown Pistoia but we found the place and parking with only one wrong turn &ndash; one would think we almost know our way around. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/?p=1366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday &#8211; Pistoia, Italy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}