The bus got into Skopje at 545am. I had to change bus and the bus to Ohrid left just pass 6am. Got into Ohrid at 945am. At the bus station an elderly gentleman asked me if I was looking for accommodation and I said yes. He was riding a bicycle so we walked to his house which was a 10 minute walk from the bus station. He said he can give me a room with an attached bathroom for Euros 15 per night and a room without an attached toilet for Euro 15 a night. Vesna from Belgrade told me I [View Full Entry]

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Woke up around 11am and got dressed as some of Vesna’s couch surfing friends had organised a picnic in a nearby mountain called Avala. Here's a short history of mount Avala from Wikipedia... Start Avala is the mountain overlooking the city of Belgrade, Serbia, situated in the south-eastern corner of the city and offering a great panoramic view. It stands at 511 metres (1,677 ft) above sea level. The name "Avala" comes from the Arabic word havala, which means "pretty view". In the Middle Ages, the town of rnov was located on Avala. The mountain has been protected since 1859. The [View Full Entry]

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I woke up around 7am but went back to sleep and woke up around 1130am. The girls Natasha, Ivana and Jelena were still asleep. Ones the girl’s woke up it was breakfast time. Ivana wanted to go to the market near her flat to get food stuff. I went with her and I bought some onions, bread, eggs and some chillie powder. After we got back, I made some “Seeni Sambol” essentially fried onions with some sugar and fried some eggs. It was nice to have some Sri Lankan food. I really miss it. After breakfast, Jelena went back to her [View Full Entry]

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Woke up at 0715 and stayed in my couch till 0730 until the alarm went. Thereafter took a shower and got ready. I left with Vesna (Vecky), she went to work and I went to the bus station to go to Novi Sad. Novi Sad is the capital city of an Autonomous Province in Northern Serbia called Vojvodina. Similar to Kosovo the difference being that in Vojvodina the people are not asking for an independent state. The return ticket to Novi Sad was quite expensive at 760 Dinars. I think there was something wrong but didn't argue as I couldn't speak [View Full Entry]

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Woke up at 7am showered, had breakfast and left Ves's house at 8am. When I got to the tram almost immediately there was tram No. 7 to the main bus station. Fortunately it was one of the old trams that you can buy a ticket from the driver. People as usual do look at you because clearly I don't look like one of them. Got to the bus station at 0840. The bus leaves Zagreb at 0900 and it takes 6 hours. I was hoping to find an internet cafe to download and print Natasa's invitation letter but had no luck [View Full Entry]

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Croatia Airlines flight OU493 was supposed to depart London Heathrow (LHR) at 1050am. When I woke up in the morning and looked outside; with my little experience working at London Heathrow I knew that Croatia Airlines flight OU492 would not even get to London by 1050am. This is because there was soo much fog and therefore Air Traffic Control would increase the separation between landing aircrafts and this in-turn causes massive delays. I phoned up operations and found out that the Croatia Airline flight to London had not even left Zagreb (ZAG) and was 3hours late and was getting to London [View Full Entry]

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I had to wake up early because the bus to Chefchaoune was leaving at 8am. So I got into the bus station which is just outside the medina and bought my ticket and thereafter had a cheese crepe essentially like a "cheese kothu". One thing being vegetarian has done to me, I have started eating loads of eggs, cheese and oranges. Guess I got to get the protien and vitamins from somewhere. While enroute to Chefchaoune I finished Shadow of the Wind. Chefchaoune bus station doesn't look like one and you got to take a taxi to the medina. Chefchaoune is [View Full Entry]

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I woke up early and went all over the old medina. Climbed a few places to get good views of the city. I was at this chicken stall when one woman came and gave an order for like 20 chickens. They took 5 live birds at a time to weigh them and thereafter put them inside this glass box. While weighing you can see the birds crapping all over and trying to fly away. They repeated this process until they had all 20 birds in the box and started a mass killing. Then they took one at a time held them [View Full Entry]

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Woke up early as I wanted to go to Moulay Idris and Volubilis. There are no collective taxis (i.e. a shared taxi with 7 people in it; 2 passengers in front and 4 at the back plus the driver) to Volubilis but there are to Moulay Idiris. The place to get a grand taxi to Moulay is not from the same place as the other taxi, the place is in the Meknes new city and I was looking for it all over the place but couldn't find it. Finally I met two guys who helped me out and put me into [View Full Entry]

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Woke up early and I went to this cafe I had seen last night. The owner was nice man and spoke English. I had something called Feve its like a lentil soup. I think anything with the right amount of salt will taste nice. Checked email and thereafter checked out of the hotel and took a grand taxi to Meknes. The trip took around 1.5hours. I met this girl in the taxi who spoke English and we got chatting. She said her dream was to go to London what a shock !!!! she was studying at the Ismail university in Meknes [View Full Entry]

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