Country Info
- Skopje
- Capital
- Denar (MKD)
- Currency
- 2,046,209
- Population
- MK
- Country Code
Republic of Macedonia Slideshow
Macedonia
Travel Blogs from Macedonia
Arrival in Greece
We arrive in Patra and head off to Athens, there there is a man that keeps following us tellign us he has a cheap hotel, I finally take a flyier to get him to shut up, and it turns out there are double rooms (wich were actually verry nice) with shower ...
Enjoying the City
HI everyone! Wow it has been quite some time since I have updated you on my life! The last 2 weeks have been pretty laid back. I have just been enjoying my life here in the city. I have definitely gotten a lot more settled in and am ...
finally the sun
... , that's one of my favorite out of 180 synagogues, temples, mosques, and churches (and counting). Ohrid was an episcopal center for Macedonia; this city alone has 365 churches, one for every day of the year. And when you are strolling, you ...
Voyage around the Agena sea
Greece is not a country know for its rail network. In fact if you arrived in Athens by train you might thing you had arrived in some one-horse-town in the middle of nowhere. You might even be fooled into thinking this isn't your stop, it just ...
Capital of Macedonia
Hallo zusammen und Gruesse aus der mazedonischen Hauptstadt, Skopje. Die Strecken hier sind nicht besonders gross, dennoch hat der Bus fast vier Stunden von Bitola nach Skopje gebraucht. Habe hier meine erste Nacht in einem Hostel auf dieser Reise. ...
Thessaloniki
Our guide for this trip was named Costas. He is a Protestant preacher, and I think he might be Church of Christ, but I'm not for sure. It's been interesting because every major guide we've had has been very different religiously. Katorina was Greek ...
Du bon velo...
Une bonne nuit de camping, des belles routes le long de la cote avec des bosses juste comme je les aime, peu de traffic, un arret dans une petite ville bien sympa, ca va mieux aujourd'hui... Et les arrets dans les "TABEPNA" (Tavernes) grecques ca retape ...
Double Night Trains and Chocolate
... when your hand leaves the spoon, it'll be able to stand straight up in your cup of hot chocolate. I had been spoiled in Ohrid, Macedonia and various other parts of Eastern Europe. And I searched high and wide for the same in Greece. Not very successful. I ...
3rd missionary journey
hey this is a short entry but i just wanted to say hi!! I love you all! i am in Northern Greece for a couple of days! Today we went to Philipi, and to the river where Lydia ( lady in acts 16 that was converted) was baptized! it was pretty cool. ...
ALISTRATI, Dam of Thisavros, and DRAMA
The Cave of Alistrati http://www.alistraticave.gr/index9ed2.html?lang=en We leave the Monastery and head towards Alistrati. We are to visit the famous caves of stalactites, but for my bad luck cameras are not allowed in the cave. Information about the ...
Day 6, or D-day
Woke up super early today. Exercised a tiny bit then packed up the van. about 30 of us carpooled in these old scary little vans. The location was up in the mountains, something like 18,000 meters up (no idea how many feet that ...
The Monastery of Timios Prodromos
We left early in the morning for the Monastery of Timios Prodromos (John the Baptist) which is located about 12 km North east of Serres in the bottom of a ravine on Mt. Menoikion. It was raining on the way, but it stopped by the time we got there. ...
Preparations of our trip
The first scale of our trip to Barcelona starts with a 1:30 hour drive from our home in Kavala, Greece to Thessalonica's Macedonia Airport. Our transit flight to Athens’s Eleftherios Venizelos Airport departes at 06:00, so we have to wake up at ...
Transit flight to Athens
A quick espresso coffee in Thessalonica's Macedonia Airport, checking in at Aegean Airlines flight to Barcelona via Athens departing at 06:00 and Barcelona is even ...
Home of the Gods
Well, I climbed Mt.Olympus. All the way to the bloody, f*cking top. It took me 2 days, but that's besides the point. I will post more info later, right now i am not in the mood (see rant below). Wah! I am cold, wet, desperate, and stuck in a ...
Oh Ohrid
... me, I ran out of time) He who sleeps, eats. Or something like that. So I'm going to sleep so I can wake up, eat and explore one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. Google it - Ohrid, Macedonia...I will try and post pictures soon. ...
300m deep lake... impressive!
... an make a few bucks. When arriving at the restaurant to meet Richard and his family, we were introduced to his friends from Macedonia Duli and Natasha. We were the invited to lunch the next day in Duli's village about 30-mins from Ohrid. During dinner ...
Thessaloniki
... '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 ...
Mount Olympus
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 ...
Le petit paradis!
My third and final week in Dusseldorf complete. And it was a wonderful and relaxing week. Three novels read and a few long bike rides out to the countryside. A few lovely meals out with my sweet freunde fur leben, Anna. And a few magnificent walks in ...
uneventful
lots of almosts: 17th: shot a big scene with alot of extras. 100s of kids and some guns. Somer performances. Heres a photo that really doesnt show anything but i like it. pretty standard stuff for here. ...
VISITING VALIA CALDA NATIONAL PARK-4 videos
VISITING GREVENA The city of Grevena is in the Northern part of Greece about 400 km from Athens, and 180 km from Thessaloniki. We have some very nice relatives here, and we are invited to spend 3 days with them. They have arranged for our hotel, and ...
Un break de reve.... qui finit endeuille
Tout etait parfait pour nos retrouvailles, un endroit magnifique, des jolies plages, un hotel super tenu par une famille formidable, une cuisine a s'en relever la nuit (bien que tres tres riche en huile d'olive, cf le rayon huile d'un super marche grec, ...
Ohrid at night
Hallo zusammen, anbei noch einige Nachtaufnahmen aus Ohrid. Endlich weiss ich, dass ich mein Trauma vom Raubueberfall ueberwunden habe, wenn ich durch eine dunkle osteuropaeische Stadt wandere:-) Gruss Ralf ...
Your Daily Trivia
Here I am back in Skopje for the night so I can get over to Sofia for my flight to Cyprus. Usually I don't repeat places but travel in the Balkans is not always the most direct route on earth and even going 150 miles as the crow flies can take ten ...
Thessaloniki Pt 3
Back in Thessaloniki again, my plan was to stay there for1 night before heading to Xanthi, though my plans changed upon meeting my CS host who I found to be a very amiable character. I stayed with him in the University dorms, which although quite cool ...