Hotel Aleksandrija Ohrid

Hallo zusammen,<br><br>bin vor 6 Uhr aufgestanden um den Bus nach Bitola zu erwischen. Dies war eine bedeutende ottomanische Stadt mit einigen Konsuln aus anderen Laendern. Daher gibt es einige nette alte Gebaeude, einige Moscheen und einen kleinen Basar, wie ihn jede islamische Stadt hat.<br><br>Die Stadt ist natuerlich nicht uebermaessig gross, hatte 3h Aufenthalt, neben der Stadt gibt es allerdings noch eine weitere Sehenswuerdigkeit 2km ...

Hallo zusammen,<br><br>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:-) <br><br>Gruss<br>Ralf<br>

... etwas ueber ein Drittel ist Mazedonien, der Rest liegt in Bulgarien) und blockieren Mazedoniens Versuche der NATO oder EU beizutreten. Und es gibt eine recht grosse albanische Minderheit, was ebenfalls fuer Reibungen sorgt.<br><br>Die beiden beruehmtesten Mazedonien sind Mutter Teresa, die einer albanischen Familie aus Mazedonien entstammt und natuerlich Alexander der Grosse. <br><br>Mazedonien versucht den ...

... the cobblestone roads to the fortress are great. The pace is slow and relaxing. There is a great path that winds in and out of the beaches on its way to a great old church. The old man giving us a tour is delighted that we are so interested and offers us Raiki (a local brandy).<br><br>After some rain, a beautiful rainbow appears.

... The staff was excellent. Highly recommended. With 8 guests, it was about 25% full. They take our passports. Hotels are required to submit the names of guests to the police for tracking. <br><br>We run into Celine, one of our drinking buddies from Tirana. She has had food poisoning and sleeps for the next 18 hours. I spend the afternoon catching up on my blog (WiFi &#8211; yeah!) while enjoying the amazing view.<br><br>That night, the hostel sponsors a ...

... then it had before, we held our breath and I almost broke Ned's hand by squeezing it so tight.... where they going to see us? and thank god it passed us but was still combing the edge of the water! This went on for about 20 minutes and as nothing exciting seemed to happen, we got bored and went to bed not knowing what was happening on our door step dundunDUNNNN. I have to say I was more then a little worried that the bandits would come and get us, the only witnesses to ...

... Melisa has a habit of loosing things.. cell phone, sunglasses!!We needed to rest a bit and get out of the hot sun, so we stopped and had a drink in Slavica. Slavica which means Gloria, is the oldest cafe in the charshija. The taking of fluids didn't take long to give us more energy to go shop around. We had stopped and looked at Filigrans, which is hand made silver, jewlry, toys, and even just went to the market for everyday ...

... was highlighted on the tourist map from the friendly border guards. At the first church on the route, I ran into two Turkish guys with the same map, so we decided to walk it together. At the 6th or so stop on the route, we ran into a Macedonian man who decided that he wanted to be our tour guide. We had no interest in a tour guide, especially not this guy. We tried to ditch him multiple times, but were unsuccessful. He was a very strange ...

... bit of a trek by bus and a couple changes, but it isn't a terrible ordeal. I caught a Tetovo-bound bus out front of Tirana's rundown train station at 9am yesterday, along with another Minnesota-native by the name of Joe that happened to be heading in the same direction. It doesn't look like an extremely long distance on a map, but the ride worked out to be six hours total. Blame the Albanian roads, a 30-minute stop for lunch and an hour long pause at the ...

... half imagined impressions, which is my excuse for losing my way quite badly. I think I walked through the undergrowth where I really shouldn't have been walking for a good hour and a half before I happened across a Dutch/Belgian biological research station. As you do, in the middle of Macedonian national parks. Not that I really minded being a bit lost, as the area in which I was walking was really quite beautiful ...