FYR of Macedonia trip

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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 is a budget friendly place, prices are very low compared with Western Europe or even the USA. The family I met on the train from Thessaloniki, Greece has invited me back to the FYR of Macedonia to stay with them and help me get to know the rest of Macedonia. The skiing in the mountains is lots of fun too. Well i've attached some photos of my last visit to Macedonia. If you have any questions just ask me.

The way that I met this family was kinda sad, I was on a train from Thessaloniki, Greece to Budapest via some Eastern European countries. On the way over from Greece I had a compartment all to myself. After awhile a family came and knocked on the door and asked if they could come inside since it was terribly cold out in the hallway of the unheated train. I said c'mon inside I have plenty of room to share. The son which was Nenad was the only one to speak English out of the family. He started explaining to me that His father had taken his family on a much saved up for vacation to Greece. Once the family got to Thessaloniki they tried to get a hotel and no one would rent them a hotel room because they were Macedonian nationality! So after a whole night of trying to get a place to stay they decided it would be best to ditch the idea of visiting Greece and return home to Tetovo, Macedonia. So after this family had saved a very long time to go on a vacation, they were denied a place to stay just because of their nationality, which sucks in my opinion. This man had taken his whole family to Greece and they treated him that way, its horrible to say the least! So thats the story how I met this family. Its weird that the MOST hospitable family can be treated the worst possible way that anyone can be treated.

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Photos

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Driving up to the mountains for a week of skiing high above Tetovo, Macedonia.

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The family that I met on the train from Greece to Macedonia, im in the middle :)

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This is Nenad the guy I met on the train coming from Greece.

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Skiing on the mountain

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The govt. owned ski resort we stayed at

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WoW yes its as cold as it looks

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ITS COOOOOLD up here

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Inside one of the monasteries in Macedonia

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Along the roadway in Tetovo

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Outside the trainstation in Tetovo

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At the local butcher shop

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My legs wont hardly fit in the tiny car outside my friends apt. building

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They even took me out to a nice restaurant on my last night in Tetovo, you cannot beat the hospitality of these people and the Minovski family.