Ambasador Skopje

... no big coffee chains, clothing stores or supermarkets. I found the locals to be warm-hearted, friendly and helpful..
My stay in Skopje also highlighted the randomness of the people you meet when travelling/staying in hostels - there was an American who was travelling on his own, a danish-russian guy who was in town for a junior chess championship and a german guy who was a bassist in a band that were touring through ...

... open a restaurant I would seriously serve these. I could call the chain Serburgers. Seriously, it was that good. Or else I was that hungry from walking nine miles in the heat.

Fast forward nine hours on a crowded overnight bus and here I am in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. And overnight bus does not mean quiet time either. The same hour long DVD of Serbian folk singers played 9 times. Picture a ...

... I went in to see exactly what the "beautiful people of Skopje" got up to. Unless half a dozen bedraggled 20's something tosspots in the corner count as the cream of Macedonian youth, then it looks like Trends has passed it's sell-by date. I ordered myself a Skopsko Silver- a drink I strongly suspect is just standard Skopsko in a slightly different bottle and at a far higher price (£1.85). The barman spent most of his time staring at me, seemingly ...

... harmanlanan bir medeniyet. Yaşayan bir şehir. Makedonya nefis bir doğaya sahip. Dağ evleri tarzında yapılmış bahçeli şirin evler, tertemiz bahçeler ve envai çeşit bitki ve çiçeklerle donatılmış balkonlar, verandalar çoğunlukta, sevdim bu ülkeyi. Öğleden sonra yollara düştük yine, Kalkandere (Tetova)'da Alaca Camii, Saat Camii ile Harabat Tekkesini gördük ve devam ettik. Üsküp'den hareket ederek 170 km mesafedeki Ohrid'e, ormanlarla kaplı dağların ve derin vadilerin aras ...

... she was in Chicago and how little english she really knew. Her vocabulary in english consisted of words she learned on Animal Planet. Words like rescue and help... although I think in some situations that could be very useful! She has a son who lives in Crown Point, Indiana- Small world!! After visting with those two fun ladies, we walked to Sv. Spas Church. This church holds the grave of Goce Delcev. Goce Delcev ...

... was terrifying. The van is old and felt like it was gonna fall apart, and there was a terrible mist. It a winding road right on the edge of the mountain and about half way up the road isnt even paved. But somehow I made it, and man the view was amazing. The village is basicaly like 4 houses and a school. There are a few soldier type guys (apparently one ...

Macedonia is **** 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 offered to tak eme around their extremly humble city!!!! i paid a taxi drive about 50p to take me to my hostel which he didnt know where it was but eventually got to a cool hostel with a dog with an affinity for biting stuff also even worse than that the french. but they ...

... as getting our bus there (see my entry on Sofia). However, we did had to find a ticket window where we could redeem our prepaid tickets for a spot on the bus. A reservation was required. After visting eight windows (starting at information where I showed them my prepaid ticket) we found the right one. I spent our last two lev to pay the bus station fee, as was required before we could get on the bus. The ride wasn't as fast as the way in (six hours in total ...

... so categorized. As if all the people in EU were similar and had totally same possibilities. Or maybe it seems to be like that outside. I have to ask people about this here in Macedonia. It was also interesting to observe in the discussions a kind of competition of the ex-Jugoslavia countries to get to "Europe". Some Serbians and Macedonians were for example talking which one has more problems to overcome before they can join. Well, it will be a long way, anyway ...

... we saw on the trip and Mr Hoxha's second in comand,the latt** showed that he clearly had more sense than M. "No,No,No...that would be far too dang**ous" was his rapid decision,"you should go back the way you came". "I will take a gun and fight my way through" explained Moussa,but to no avail. Cmmdr Hoxha had already made up his mind.Mention of a "corridor",and it's apparent precariousness,had brought me visions of a furrow,as in plough and furrow,and ...