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Leaving's harder than we thought
Sep 13, 2007
(8 photos)
"· Ohrid, Macedonia · GMT +1:00 hour Macedonia. 2 days late Here is an excerpt from our last entry, dated 3 days ago... So that, as they say, was that from Tirana. We get the bus in ..."
A travel blog entry from Ohrid by
byrnedm
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Macedonia
Aug 13, 2007
(7 photos)
"The next country on the list is Macedonia, a place we know next to nothing about except for its most famous son, Alexander the Great, and the nuts that come from there. Wait, that' ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
jambo
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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 yout ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
lucinate
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... I DON'T NEED A VISA
Apr 10, 2005
(4 photos)
"And the following morning, I woke up in the middle of nowhere. The family of the very tiny, old, round Croatian man with bad knees invited me in for breakfast. The man's daughter w ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
modernoddyseus
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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, a ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
uncle_davros
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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 shores, ..."
A travel blog entry from Ohrid by
bogna
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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 ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
gogan
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Ohrid sweet Ohrid
Mar 11, 2007
(9 photos)
"We had a good visit to Lake Ohrid, both the town of Ohrid and the monastery of Sveti Naum on the Macedonian-Albanian border. Seventeen years ago I visited the monastery, but ..."
A travel blog entry from Ohrid by
cjabroad
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The Balkan Express Part 1
Sep 4, 2006
"APPROX 8:23 AM - Our train to the Croatian capital of Zagreb was supposed to leave Thessaloniki, Greece. According to the ticketing agent in the station, it is not usually a crowde ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
the_stamms
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Canadian Foreign Ambassadors
Jun 3, 2006
(4 photos)
"Alright, so the first matter to solve is that it's actually pronounced Makadonia, so somewhere along the way the C was put in the spelling and it messed everything up. Macedonia is ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
bsuarez
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Day 2
May 29, 2008
(1 photo)
"Day 2: Today was better. Albert and I spent most of the day working with the camera, but at a really lazy pace. The follow focus is terrible, and doesnt really work in conjunction ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
raistlin22384
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Serenity at Lake Ohrid
Sep 9, 2008
(5 photos)
"An exciting city tour of Tirana awaited us this morning!! We drove from our beautiful hotel along the main boulevard of Tirana, the street of the Martyrs of the country through Mot ..."
A travel blog entry from Ohrid by
mrsmac
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Travel from Santorini and Skopje
Aug 15, 2006
(8 photos)
"The trip from Santorini to Skopje, Macedonia was hell. We had to take an all night boat which arrived in Athens at 5am. We then had to take a 6 hour train up to Thessyloniki. Did I ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
ericrg
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English football
Aug 18, 2003
"Accommodation trouble. Why did we know nothing about this?! (see issue 23 for more) ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
williebobs
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Skopje, Macedonia
Aug 15, 2006
(6 photos)
"Well, we got in last night and things got interesting right off the bat. We want to ultimately get to Croatia so in order to do so, we need to go through either Albania or Macedoni ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
ryanlacey
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Night Train to Greece
Dec 29, 2005
"Are they Australians? We took the over night train from Belgrade to Thessaloniki in Greece. We'd hoped for a good night's sleep, but the Macedonian border guards had to inspect our ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
jeffandmarie
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Dubrovnik to Skopje
Aug 12, 2008
"Leaving our firm French friends in Dubrovnik was strange. Having spent the whole tour of Hrvatska with the duo, we had almost forgotten what it was like to have the burden of heavy ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
steveandwill
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MACEDONIA CYCLING
Apr 25, 2007
(10 photos)
"stories and stories to come, bear with us... We rode the southern tip of Macedonia south towards Greece. A big surprise was the gradual and long uphill of the ride ..."
A travel blog entry from MACEDONIAN PHOTOS CYCLING by
onsixwheels
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In the lands of St. Clement
Jul 2, 2007
"Now moving eastwards, I've come to the beautiful northeastern shores of Lake Ohrid. It was here that the Cyrillic alphabet was first birthed some 1000+ years ago, put together by t ..."
A travel blog entry from Ohrid by
xerius
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Into the Land of Mosques
Nov 11, 2007
(5 photos)
"Today, I visited Tetovo, a town about an hour away from Skopje and center of the country's Albanian ethnic minority, which makes up 23% of the population as a whole. Stepping off t ..."
A travel blog entry from Tetovo by
kally563
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Off to Athens or so we thought
Apr 13, 2007
"So we catch the night train to Thessaloniki where we then catch a day train to Athens.. pretty simple.. 1 day travel right.. ummmmm nooo.. Australians need a visa to be issue ..."
A travel blog entry from Sjopke by
nstarkey77
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A lake, some churches and a national park
Jul 25, 2006
(4 photos)
"The bus ride was mildly frustrating. Having jumped on the bus at nine in the morning, I had expected it to head straight for the border. I was slightly surprised when it started he ..."
A travel blog entry from Ohrid by
mrconfused
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Out of Albania, into Macedonia
Dec 19, 2007
(27 photos)
"Getting into Macedonia was only slightly adventurous. First I took a furgon to a town near the border and then took a cab to the Macedonian side of the border. After be ..."
A travel blog entry from Ohrid by
laura1
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The Mother of all Train Trips
Sep 13, 2006
(4 photos)
"I had mentioned that I was on my way to Greece to the Canadian couple in the hostel in Belgrade and they were trying to get there too, so we decided to all go together on the train ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
alicecrabtree
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Arrival in Skopje
Oct 20, 2006
"After learning that the Scottish fellow was beat up last night on his way home from a pub, we were feeling wary during our walk to the Sofia bus station. At the market near the Nev ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
fatduck
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Country 104!
Jul 4, 2007
"Yes, I just arrived at my 104th country: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (not to confuse it with Grrek Macedonia, as my Greek friends always suggest). It was long drive f ..."
A travel blog entry from Ohrid by
whk2006
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Ohrid Lake...
Jun 7, 2005
"Sair da Albania e complicado... Essencialmente pq em tirana ha cerca de 3 ou 4 estacoes de autocarro...ou melhor, ha 3 ou 4 sitios onde os autocarros param, e q os albaneses por ob ..."
A travel blog entry from Ohrid by
tiagorelvao
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to Skopje,capital of Macedonia
Jan 28, 2008
(10 photos)
"So,how I'm involved in FOPER project ( Forest policy and economics research),what is a project funded by Finnish government to help economy and policy in forestry of West Bal ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
keplam
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Ohrid - Macedonia
Jul 8, 2008
(8 photos)
"We left Nick's with 3½ days to get to the Exit festival in Serbia (more on that later). The first half day we got precisely 60km, parked up for a rest (there'd been a few lat ..."
A travel blog entry from Ohrid by
roamingmonk
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skopje
Apr 9, 2005
(4 photos)
"still long night in the train! macedonian boarder officier seemed to be so happy to meet two french guy and they was joking with us saying with an incredible accent "jacques chirac ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
fabien
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Rubbing Shoulders with Mother Teresa
Oct 8, 2005
"How dare we call ourself backpackers???? We are a disgrace to those that travel on a shoestring, eating out of dustbins and drinking their own feculence. Today we were tired - carr ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
dazbo1975
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MaceDONTia
Aug 9, 2007
"Macedonia is Shit No really its like i stepped off the train into the worlds shittest city. however things did look up as the two people in my cabin were local skopjeians and they ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
barber.timothy
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skopje et ohrid
Sep 18, 2008
"même le blogue est en retard car il ne reconnait pas wncorw le kocovo comme un pays... j,ai quitte prizren ce matin car il y a bien peu a visiter... je suis rendu a ckopje la capit ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
michlac
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Debar
Dec 9, 2006
"Thursday 7 December ..."
A travel blog entry from Debar by
ced
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Planes,Planes....please no more planes
Aug 22, 2008
(4 photos)
"First day here, arrived about 3:50pm which is almost 9am Indiana time. I am not so much jet lagged but just plain wore out from traveling. Marija drove me around to see some sites ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
brandilinasue
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Leaving Skopje and the Problems Behind
Sep 15, 2006
"We left a day after the wedding of my best man Zvanko who, normally, has a full name and a title at that: civ.ing. Ljubomir G. Drnkovski a great guy with whom we were in the same c ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
gogan
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Balkan adventure begins
Aug 19, 2007
(6 photos)
"My two week vacation from the peace corps has finally begun. I've been looking forward to this since my last trip ended in April. Last night I took the night bus from Sofia to Ohri ..."
A travel blog entry from Ohrid by
mary_zell
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Skopje
Nov 20, 1978
"Stopped here on the way from Greece to Central Europe. Kind of scary place at the time. ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
bangkokrandy
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Fist two months in Macedonia
Nov 6, 2004
"Hey everybody!!! well i hope this works and that yall like it let me know. Ok so as of tody I have been gone for exactly two months and I cant decide if it has been the longest two ..."
A travel blog entry from Veles by
darcieswein
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Jockeying to Get on a Quantas Jumbo
Sep 16, 2006
(1 photo)
"My friends have always held a position that they absolutely need to be continuously more than politely sincere with me. It is not very easy to keep both (the friends and their such ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
gogan
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Intro
Mar 10, 2008
(27 photos)
"HOW TO COME TO THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA · BY AIR Through two international airports - Skopje and Ohrid. Macedonian airlines "Avioimpex" and MAT have regular connectio ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje, Macedonia by
tuparev_slavcho
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MACEDONIA
Mar 5, 2006
"TALK ABOUT AN UNEVENTFUL PLACE. THE ONLY THING I FOUND INTERESTING IN BULGARIA IS A GREAT PASTA DESSERT AND STRICT DRIVING LAWS. FIRST OFFENSE DUI IS A LENGTHY PRISON TERM. THE SEC ..."
A travel blog entry from SKOPJE by
trolibus
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Our Dacha on Vitosha
Sep 16, 2006
(1 photo)
"If the border officials on the Bulgarian side, whether the police or the customs does not matter, were told that they will find themselves transferred to Besarabia if insist on mal ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
gogan
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Lake Ohrid
Jul 7, 2008
(15 photos)
"Only 1 seven hour bus ride today to Struga plus a 15 minute cab ride I shared with an Italian from Struga to Ohrid, of course I traveled only 130 miles! Once again I have rented a ..."
A travel blog entry from Ohrid by
phileus_fogg
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Macedonia/FYROM report
Jul 30, 2008
"Skopje: Domini restaurant at the hostel Jadena coffee shop in the old town Burek shop (crescent rolls with cinnamon, blueberry sodas) Miracoli pizza Ferijalen Dom youth hostel Svet ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
texasdoug
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To Skopje
Aug 17, 2005
(6 photos)
"From Belgrade our train headed down south to Skopje in Macedonia. ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
sfynxx
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Skopje
May 16, 2006
(8 photos)
"Macedonia was a nice change from Kosovo. Like a little mini-vacation. It was nice not to see people walking around the streets with assault rifles. ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
jason_joyce
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Every Trip Begins With One Step
Sep 17, 2006
"How does one persuade his or her bosses to OK a trip, an expenditure, political move, take responsibility? But then, why should you care to know all this when all it takes to trave ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
gogan
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Back home: Skopje versus Africa
Sep 15, 2006
"Well, Skopje cannot, even if it wished so very much, to compare with many a place in Africa, like Cairo to begin with, but I am positive that Skopje would not wish to compare with ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
gogan
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Macedonia
Jul 27, 2003
(2 photos)
"From Rila Monastery I went into Macedonia. Had to hitch hike my way but people are so friendly. ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
kennethj
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Skopje
Mar 28, 2006
"Just a couple of days at work in Skopje. ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
~cat~
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..and in Skopje!
Feb 6, 2006
(6 photos)
"Ok, so back to Skope... Again, most of my days were filled with work and work-related activities, although I got to "live" a bit more this time as well. Skopje in February can be c ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
~cat~
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Arrival in Skopje
Apr 2, 2005
"I spent a week in Skopje to do a fieldwork for my Master Thesis. More details about the trip will follow. ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
~cat~
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Culture in Macedonia
May 24, 2007
"All day sightseeing, app. 6 to 7 hours of sightseeing, walk in the , visit to the National Art Gallery, the Fortres Kale Ottoman Turkish architecture, the Church of the Holy Salva ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
macedonian
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Orthodox Monks in Macedonia
Aug 16, 2007
(9 photos)
"Ola and I are in Macedonia, in the lovely southern town of Bitola. Today we got up in the working class town of Prilep. We hiked to this remote monestary (Treskavec) today and chil ..."
A travel blog entry from Bitola by
aviva
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Skopje
Aug 8, 1990
"The drive through the countryside was the best part of Macedonia. ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
ahartry
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Brief visit to Macedonia
Aug 26, 2008
"Long bus trip. Most vacationers to Dures on Albanian Adriatic coast. Near end of trip at rest stop invited by two young pretty Macepdonian girls cousins them for coffee. One a hair ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
radsolv
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.:balkans:.
Apr 27, 2008
(5 photos)
"another surprise... there was no train that was supposed to be... so we stayed in skopje 2 days instead of 1... ..."
A travel blog entry from Skopje by
imohag
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