http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Macedonia en-us Tue, 13 May 2008 23:52:53 BST Tue, 13 May 2008 23:52:53 BST I wrote this last night April 29th. Itrsquos now the night of the 30th and wersquore at a hotel in Athens. I donrsquot have time to update about today so enjoy this news from yesterday and Irsquoll post with pictures as soon as I can. xoLast night was our night in Nis. Itrsquos actually a pretty nice town...therersquos a street with lots of little cafes that are extremely cheap th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/blog-271615.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Ohrid/Ohrid/blog-258106.html Well we actually had breakfast in this hostel but it was slightly uninspiring. Rob as usual made the most of it by having as much toast as a person can consume. It was too smokey to sit around in the kitchen for long so despite the snow outside we went to explore the city.The road into the centre was very flooded so we had to be careful whilst we walked. We took it in turns to avoid the rubbish an http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Skopje/blog-220414.html Journey and First NightMet a Czech guy called Vladmir on the train and we travelled north of the border playing chess and drinking beer. Arriving in Skopje was an experience walked from the train station down a familiar road to Kisele Voda to where the hostel should be but couldn't find it in fact I walked past it 5 or 6 times without ever noticing it was thereThanks to Macedonian good will http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Skopje/blog-214573.html Mazedonien http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/blog-206857.html Upon arrival in Ohrid I was quite surprised by what I found. I had read a bit about this town and the lake how it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site full of ancient buildings and how the Cyrillic alphabet was invented here in the ninth century AD. I had also seen a lot of photographs nearly all of a little church sitting on a cliff above a deep blue lake. Well that is only half the story. Tacke http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Ohrid/blog-205731.html Hello bloggersSince we last blogged we have travelled down the Turkish west coast through the Greek Islands and now up to Macendonia.From Troy where the last chapter ended we continued south along the Turkish Mediterranean coast to Bodrim via Bergama and Selchuk. Bergama was inland somewhat and the site of a huge Roman archeological site complete with amphitheatres arches aquaducts and temples http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Skopje/blog-202178.html Ive been to the Former Yugoslav. Rep. of Macedonia 4 times this is my last trip there. The people of Macedonia are very friendly and inquisitive they will ask you many questions trying to get to know you. Everyone wants to learn English it seems. I met lots of friends in Macedonia and actually made friends with a small family in Tetovo which is a small town near the capital of Skopje. This i http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Skopje/blog-196267.html Hi EverybodyI am using a strange keyboard that has y and z switched. Try to overlook that if I have spelling errors with those letters. I also cant use an apostrophe or quotation marks.Walt and I walked over the Old Stone Bridge and explored the Ottoman section of Skopje. A young couple was exiting the Orthodox Church after getting married. Two musicians serenaded them as they left the churc http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Skopje/blog-193322.html Hi EverybodyWe spent Saturday afternooon exploring Thessaloniki. We went to the Roman Forum Paradisos Bath ruins the Arch of Galerius the White Tower several Orthodox churches. We went through a park and I saw a woman jumping rope my favorite exercise. I tried to communicate with her and found out that she was from Afghanistan.Today has been great We caught an early train from Thessalon http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Skopje/blog-191630.html Leaving Albania turned out to be more difficult than expected. The bus to Macedonia which I had asked about on Saturday and was supposed to leave at nine in the morning on Monday didn't... So I looked on the map of Albania and took the first minibus I could find to the town closest to the border. And than I tried to get another ride to the border itself but the directions to where the bus was supp http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Ohrid/Ohrid/blog-191280.html http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Ohrid/blog-174629.html Meeting MacedonianbspEurope raquonbspMacedonia FYR raquonbspSkopje By TheKeithsMarch 28th 2007Alana and Bryan Keith After yet another overnight ldquosleeplessrdquo train to Thessaloniki and a 5hour train ride through the Macedonian countryside we finally arrived in Skopje the capital city. Macedonia is a relatively new country having just received its independence from Yugoslavi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Skopje/blog-153764.html Sept 27thAfter a long trainride to Thessaloniki in northern Greece one night in a cheap and kind of dirty hostel and another early morning train we arrived in Macedonia. Our main reason for visiting this country was to visit two of Heidi's friends Kelley and Laura who are in the Peace Corps here. Kelley had just arrived so we only had a few hours to see her during her training but we s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/blog-117750.html We leave for Numburg Germany at 9.30am Morning of Sunday 29th October from the capital Skopje 105710821086108711121077 in Macedonian which for some reason reminds me of cronejay That means we have to be up and fully packed at 4.30am to catch the 5am bus the 250km to Skopje from StrumicaUnfortunately Lex's package from home hasnt arrived... with uni enrollment forms etc. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/blog-98387.html alex here feeling 100 and thanks to all the nice people for all their cool comments wow ez is busy playing puter games and generously let me do a quick blog all on my lonesome even at risk of mispelling. Just a few things that i really need to get outexpresso coffee possibily spelt wrong is quite lovely and my uncle clark would be proud although he drinks long black also that http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/blog-98129.html Yes you can judge by the title that Lex is in completely recovered health... otherwise it would be something more seriousUnfortunately just Ez here again as the internet was down at the internet cafe comeon... what kinda internet cafe has net that goes down and lex got a bit tired and headed off for bedAs i was saying... she made it through with the help of a few wee pills called painkille http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Ohrid/blog-97941.html Ez hereWell here we are... 2 weeks in StrumicaZoki arrived on the 15th Saturday we made the 250kmish trip to the capital Skopje to pick him up from his 24hour bus ride from GermanyInteresting to meet him and life has kinda set back into a pattern of doing well... not heaps but getting around a little bit socialising eating too much and generally existingOn Monday we had a little m http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/blog-96194.html Well... been in Macedonia for a week now and figured I'd get a quick update on hereWe are staying with Alex's family in Strumica Macedonia... few quick factsPopulationMacedonia 2 000 000Strumica 50 000 30 000 more including the 72 surrounding villages Currency Macedonian Dinar some use of euro 1 Euro 61.3 Dinar... an hour in a net cafe about 30 dinar max can of coke 30 dinar re http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/blog-94247.html aleeeeeex here...we are...in... Macedoniaso far itys been nogo nogo dobra hahha ez n me have had major macedonian lessons ... zoki in typical fashion left mace before we even went overseas hahhahaha so alees and cotcho are our lifesavers translationg when things get tricky with basic words and hand gestures. We have had the grand tour of ruins around strumica by aleesmy 25 yr old cuzzie http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/blog-93383.html well after listening to my mother scream in my ear about not callingemailingupdating before we got cut off i suppose its time for an update. i did try the other day but the connection at this place sucked really bad so i just left...basically i'm an adopted member of the family here in ohrid. we sit and sip coffee smoke cigarettes watch balkan music videos eat homecooked meals etc. etc. l http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Ohrid/blog-84357.html well i certainly am happy to be out of skopje. parts of it were really cool but overall i just felt unsafe and being alone certainly didn't help...probably the best part was being able to sit in my room in my underwear in front of the air conditioner...this morning i was a weirdo and was up and out of my room by 9 to explore what i could in skopje before noon. the main center square ploshtad mak http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Ohrid/blog-83720.html so yea ive had quite the issue updating this blog seeing as i've come across only power outages and shitty internet....saturday afternoon i left veliko turnovo after a ridiculously crazy night and a tearful farewell. i can't wait to come back next summer. a bunch of us headed for sofia where i spent the first night at a hostel and the second night with a friend from switzerland who works in sofia http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Skopje/blog-83434.html I've spend the last few days with Iskra Verica and Snezena they were all in my Greece program and their friends and family Igor Sasho Andre Sanchka etc.. I've seen most of Skopje the capital of Macedonia... there's nothing much here it's pretty calm. The city is in the far North of the country near Serbia the Kosovo region. It sits between two small mountain ranges and has a river http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Skopje/blog-82369.html Trtt p bilen p Kosovo och ganska trtt p mig sjlv ocks fr tillfllet. Tv ntter i Prishtina blev fyra och det sista som skulle gras var att balansera hjulen. Det propsade mekanikern p. Fast nr jag ntligen hittade en firma som gjorde det var det just inget fel alls p dem och killen freslog fga diplomatiskt att obalansen kanske satt ngon annanstans typ i mitt huvud..Nr jag efte http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Skopje/blog-52066.html Estos ultimos dias en Estambul han sido dias de relax y compras para seguir con la linea consumista que empez hace un mes con la llegada de Toni y que nos ha afectado a los tres. Atras han quedado Mister T Tuncay Fatih o Fico entre otros y los tes turcos y de manzana que nos ofrecian cada vez que ibamos a verles. Tambien atras han quedado las noches de marcha en el Cambaz viendo al abuelo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Skopje/blog-51750.html Nuestra estancia en Macedonia llega a su fin de momento...nos tocara volver. Buenas noticias....Ha salido el sol parece un milagro pero hace mas de una semana que cada dia amanece soleado hace calorcito y la gente se dedica a pasear y sentarse en terracitas a tomar un cafe y ver la vida pasar....esta es la filosofia macedonia tomarselo todo con calma trabajar lo minimo una vida casi c http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Ohrid/blog-49952.html