Macedonia Travel Blogs

stomach revolution
Jul 20, 2008

POLSKI: Rano przyjechalismy do Leptokarii. Jeszcze w pociagu zjadlam salatke wegierska z Lidla, na spolke z Marcinem. To mial byc dzien odpoczynku na plazy, na ktory z pewnoscia zaslugiwalismy. Tam zaczal bolec mnie zoladek. Do 15tej trzy razy biegalam ...

ageless Alexander the Macedonian
Jul 21, 2008 (29 photos)

... , we saw the monument of Alexander the Macedonian too, which stands on his horse towards the most hated neighbor of Greece - Macedonia. A coincidence? After 6pm we met up with Marta from Couchsurfing. What a girl she is! As a Polish from Canada living ...

Ech, da vidam Ohrid, Struga da vidam
Jul 23, 2008 (103 photos)

K. Miladinov, "T'ga za jug" (Tęsknota za południem/   Longing for the South), 1860: English: If I had an eagle's wings I would rise and fly on them To our ...

No Souvlaki
Aug 16, 2005

We were supposed to arrive yesterday (15 Aug) afternoon at 17.00 giving me time to enjoy some greek quisine. Arrived at 4am Greek time (3am Albanian time) to find the train station closed. Bugger. They opened at 5am so we sat down outside on the ...

another world
Jul 22, 2008

POLSKI: Marta jeszcze spala, gdy wychodzilismy rano z jej mieszkania. Wsiedlismy w taksowke i dojechalismy do dworca (3 Euro, w Salonikach sa najtansze taksowki  w calej Europie!). O 8:30 odjezdzal nasz pociag z Salonik do Floriny. Tamze ...

Church of the day
Aug 16, 2007 (6 photos)

... is not only situated on the banks of Europe's deepest lake but is also the site of Europe's oldest university? Answer: Ohrid, Macedonia. These two facts should be reason enough to visit but Ohrid also happens to be a scenic and historical town close to ...

Thessaloniki and Greece
Oct 9, 2008

Our host at our last place was nice enough to drive us to Thessaloniki about an hour up the road.  Thessaloniki is the second largest city in Greece and is home to close to 1,000,000 inhabitants.  It is also home to what seems like just as many museums, ...

Lake Ohrid
Aug 11, 2005 (8 photos)

... had a chat with them. He came back to us. 1km if we walk with them!!! So off we went - military escort out of Macedonia!!! I don't even think it was a kilometre! He stood there making sure we left and then marched back for a smoke. His days work done, ...

Night Train to Istanbul
May 29, 2008

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Skopje
Aug 10, 2005 (3 photos)

Hmmmmmm. Not much to report on Skopje. This Dutch girl we met said Skopje was nice but then she hated Bulgarians so we know where her taste was! No Macedonian grannies and the youth hostel was a massive ripoff! Bit of a shithole really. There ...

Why and the Gods
May 25, 2008 (13 photos)

Carolyn and I paid our respects to the abode of the twelve Greek gods at Mt. Olympus.  The highest peak in Greece had now changed hands to the Orthodox Christians as small shrines and a rebuilt monastery were part of the trip along Mavrologos Gorge.& ...

Mt. Olympus
Oct 7, 2008 (13 photos)

This was one stop that we have been looking forward to for some time - and it didn't disappoint.  Mt. Olympus rises about 3,000 metres almost right from the water as it is on the coast.  Greek mythology  portrayed the throne of Zeus to be atop the mountain.  ...

Macedonia
Aug 13, 2007 (7 photos)

... river and the old stone bridge. The bridge is over 500 years old and has witnessed some of the greatest events in Macedonia's history over that period, including the execution of some famous Macedonian hero in the 15th century, who was hanged over the ...

Why couldn't we spend 5 days here?
Sep 14, 2007 (18 photos)

· Ohrid, Macedonia · GMT +1:00 hour Entry to follow...

Leaving's harder than we thought
Sep 13, 2007 (8 photos)

... bus and sat on it for 4 hours as it went up, and up, and up, eventually reaching the mountain top Albania/Macedonia boarder crossing. And that's where the problems began and we didnt't get any further. Seemingly Canadians need a visa to enter Macedonia. ...

Not much to see
Aug 10, 2005 (3 photos)

Skopje - Not much I can really say. It is up there with Milan as being a right shithole. I only went there as it was on the way to Lake Ohrid. But there is only a Turkish bridge, an old feudal tower, a monument to Mother Theresa, an old fort and a market, ...

Beautiful Lake Ohrid
Aug 11, 2005 (7 photos)

We could not wait to escape the shithole that was Skopje, so we jumped on a bus and headed for Lake Ohrid. Some say that it is the third biggest lake in Europe. So we had to go see this As soon as the bus pulled in, an angry mob was awaiting us. It was ...

... I DON'T NEED A VISA
Apr 10, 2005 (4 photos)

... month working in the cafe. To top it off, Greece hates them and angrily protests their name. I feel bad for poor Macedonia. On a separate note, the streets of Skopje scared me. I left a bar at one a.m. Gypsy kids were turning acrobatics ...

Serenity at Lake Ohrid
Sep 9, 2008 (5 photos)

... Macedonian border.It took nearly two hours to get through both sides. That done it was not far to our hotel in Ohrid, Macedonia. This is situated on the beautiful Lake Ohrid. It was the centre of Byzantine monastic life and was where the Cyrillic Alphabet ...

Velas
Jun 13, 2008 (7 photos)

Today was again an interesting day. We went to another remote location that, but this time at least it wasnt a scary drive in the mountains.  It was still a good 20 minutes on a tiny dirt road though.  When we got to location I didnt really ...

Torrential Rain in Kavala
May 21, 2007

Woke up at 6:30 AM to shower before breakfast..real nice and cold.  It seems there are two things we are going to need to get used to in Eastern Europe...cold showers and squatters. Another day of driving through the mountains of Greece in rain.& ...

Night Train to Greece
Dec 29, 2005

... at 2 AM, followed by the Greeks at 6 AM. The interesting thing was, the Macedonian border guards were not entirely convinced we were Americans. In fact one guard thought we were Australians. I guess few Americans take the night train through Macedonia.

Skopsko
Jun 5, 2006 (3 photos)

... a lot of history with the orthodox churches. and it's a nice rich place to shop. It's the perfect tourist trap for Macedonia - but a rightful one. Accomodations are much cheaper here too since many residents rent out extra rooms. I got one for 6 euros a ...

A Macedonian Adventure
Jun 25, 2008 (8 photos)

... here are spectacular but enigmatic.  The official account is that the two tombs contain the remains of Philip II, King of Macedonia in the mid-fourth century BCE and the father of Alexander the Great, and Philip's grandson, Alexander's son, Alexander ...

Canadian Foreign Ambassadors
Jun 3, 2006 (4 photos)

... 's actually pronounced Makadonia, so somewhere along the way the C was put in the spelling and it messed everything up. Macedonia is an interesting region. The rural areas felt more poor than Serbia's did. However Skopje feels more westernized than Beograd ...

Thessaloniki
Jan 27, 2005

... 's second largest city behind Athens. We did a drive-through, got stuck in rush-hour traffic, and decided to abort Thessaloniki to stay closer to Friday's destination: Vergina, the site of the royal tombs of Alexander the Great and Philip of Macedonia.

Mount Olympus
Jan 26, 2005 (19 photos)

Wednesday evening, we drove through some pretty serious rain from Dephi to the area between Mount Olympus and the Aegean Sea. We learned that it was off-season here when - at my suggestion - we attempted to stay in a small mountain village on the slopes ...

Leaving my earthquake stricken city
Sep 14, 2006 (6 photos)

The other day the search machine took me to an entry by the most proliferate uncle_davros or whatever is his name. He packed his impressions of Skopje, mainly four-letter words and other crap. I was in Australia and can imagine the frustration people from ...

Thessaloniki Again
Jun 27, 2008 (9 photos)

A slow morning in Thessaloniki.  As it turned out, too slow.  We slept in, did laundry, grabbed a late breakfast, walked slowly to the Archaeological Museum, sat in the cafe for a while and cooled off (which was complicated by the fact that the ...

Beer Festival
Aug 26, 2006

Beer festival in Montenegro. The beer festival was not to bad. A lot of beer stalls. Very bussy at night. But is different from German Beer Festivals. Anyway was a nice night.