{"id":35,"date":"2012-04-12T15:50:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2012-05-16T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:22:24","slug":"getting-to-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/getting-to-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Venue<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.surgeonshall.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.surgeonshall.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Surgeons&#8217; Hall<\/a>, Royal College of Surgeons, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?q=Nicolson+Street,+Edinburgh+EH8+9DW&amp;hnear=Nicolson+St,+Edinburgh,+Midlothian+EH8,+United+Kingdom&amp;gl=uk&amp;t=m&amp;z=15\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?q=Nicolson+Street,+Edinburgh+EH8+9DW&amp;hnear=Nicolson+St,+Edinburgh,+Midlothian+EH8,+United+Kingdom&amp;gl=uk&amp;t=m&amp;z=15\" rel=\"nofollow\">EH8 9DW<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>By Train<\/h3>\n<p>Edinburgh is linked to all the major cities and airports in Britain. The high-speed link to London gets you from the heart of one city to the other in just over four hours, while the Eurostar service connects Paris to Edinburgh in around eight hours.<br \/>\nSee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalrail.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">National Rail<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<h3>By Road<\/h3>\n<p>Motorways and a network of quiet trunk roads ensure Edinburgh is easily &#8211; and pleasantly &#8211; accessible by road.<\/p>\n<h3>By Coach<\/h3>\n<p>The recently-refurbished coach station at St Andrew Square in the heart of the city offers connections to all major cities in Britain. Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalexpress.com  \" target=\"_blank\">National Express.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>By Air<\/h3>\n<p>Edinburgh International Airport is only \u00a012 kilometres (8 miles) from the city centre and has very good connections to the city via taxi, express coach and shuttle bus. Over 100 destinations are served by more than 40 airlines including New York, Toronto, Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva, Frankfurt, Paris, Prague, Madrid, Munich, Stockholm and Warsaw. There are over 100 flights from London airports every day, and numerous flights to other major cities in the UK including Birmingham, Manchester and Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edinburghairport.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.edinburghairport.com<\/a> for full information<\/p>\n<p>From Edinburgh Airport to the city<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taxi \u2013 no need to book, always available at the Airport taxi rank &#8211; approx \u00a318-20<\/li>\n<li>Airport Express bus \u2013 approx 20 minutes \u00a33.50 each way<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Venue Surgeons&#8217; Hall, Royal College of Surgeons, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh\u00a0EH8 9DW By Train Edinburgh is linked to all the major cities and airports in Britain. The high-speed link to London gets you from the heart of one city to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/getting-to-edinburgh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting to Edinburgh<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7480199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PheXfn-z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7480199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}