Aristocrat Palace Hotel Skopje

... balkans. <br> <br>Skopje town is small - and my hostel was located in an outer suburb (which was only a 15min walk from the train/bus terminus). There is a musum that is housed in the old train station that was damaged in an earth quake and the clock is stuck at the time the earthquake struck.<br>The other main tourist attraction was the mother teresa museum, which was interesting though low on artifacts ...

... between polka and pop music. Odd. I think it is only a matter of time before I get black lung disease down here, too. The driver chain smoked the whole ride and I was in the second row wedged into my very own smoke chamber couretesy of him. Luckily it is nonsmoking for the passengers. They have to wait until pee stops.<br><br>I had read that the taxi drivers here literally take foreigners for a ride from the ...

... what I could be doing in this hotbed of activity. I was quite enjoying myself though- the fact I was more beautiful than Skopjes' combined "beautiful people" was giving my confidence a massive boost, especially given that I'm not exactly Johnny Depp. I didn't take his staring personally though, since his name was Sasha, a name forever associated in my mind with Briggzys hyperactive and mentally challenged dog. (One-nil to me). I decided it looked unlikely ...

... geçen düzgün fakat dolambaçlý yollardan, iki saati aþkýn bir yolculuk sonrasýnda akþam saatlerinde, ortasýndan Dirim ýrmaðý geçen, Ohri gölü kýyýsýnda, þirin mi þirin bir turistik þehir olan Struga'ya ulaþtýk. Struga kentinde yaklaþýk 1962 yýlýndan beri kesintisiz sürdürülen "Uluslararasý Struga Þiir Akþamlarýna" bütün dünyadan þairler davet ediliyor. Ertesi gün Resne'ye doðru yola çýktýk. Yolun iki tarafýda elma bahçeleri ile bezenmiþ muhteþem bir doða içerisinde ...

... one of the biggest Macedonian Revolutionists. Inside the church seemed like any of the other ones that I had been too. Outside is where the grave of the revolutionist is and just outside a small museum about his life. I was told that he had fallen in Bulgaria and his remains was brought back on Macedonian soil to this church. After a browse, we left to go grocery shopping and then "home". Just some more observations ...

... wanted the police) running around with those semi-automatic rifles from the goldeneye game. The shoot went pretty well, but was pretty long with all the travel time and whatnot. Plus my 2nd AC is totally green and ive had to pretty much teach him everything. Im not sure if its his personality or what but he always seems annoyed too, which gets kind of ...

... cool guys one even looked liked harry potter so we had something in common even if it was as loose as we both look like fictional film characters!!! we played wierd french card game and had beers eventually they went out and left me by my lonesome they offered me to go but i had been travelling 22 hours on a corrupt and probably dangerous train i needed sleep also they were going to an electro trance party. the next day i woke up fully ...

... we did meet a fascinating character from Michigan who is studying international relations in Ankara, Turkey. His university classes broke for the end of Ramadan and he had eleven days to kill. He chose to spend his time in Macedonia. It wasn't his first visit to a South Slavic country (he spent two months in Bosnia/Croatia/Serbia), and he was working on his Macedonian/Bulgarian (the two languages are quite similar). After we chatted for a while (a six hour ...

... almost -seems to want to EU, but nobody knows where that is going. Paradoxical, propably. I met again totally cool people and will visit at least the Kosovo/Kosova-people. At the beginning i felt that I was old in the group, which was true, but the more I talked to for example many 16-17-years people, the more amazed I was and wondered where so deep and interesting people grow up. Good-byes were hard, definitely, and I was half-seriously thinking about travellimg to ...

... trying to crawl along on his belly as hostile forces attacked from all sides,p**haps dragging me along in his wake as he guided me back to Skopje. At least his reckless fantasy had got us the full tour,and we'd made it to the rebel village that was most out on a limb,but I was glad not to be being dragged back to Skopje through a ditch,especially not in a body bag! "I think we'd bett** get you back to civilisation as soon as we can,Moussa ,old son.The sun ...