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Lake Side Bliss
... in Macedonia. It has a charming old town,atmospheric churches, and a massive castle perched on the the hill. In the summer this place is packed with music festivals and beach bums but prices are sky high. Luckily for us, it was autumn so the prices were down, the sun was shining and the scenery was jaw dropping.
It was easy to tell why this place is ...
Hello Europe
... visited us for a couple of days. Yay! Together we did some sightseeing around Istanbul's mosques and palaces and ate olives, figs and baklava until it almost squirted out of our ears. (nice direct transalation from swedish). It wasfortunate that Astrid came and entertained us a bit because we had to wait a looong time for the bike to arrive. When it finally did, it took Anton ...
Kosovo and Albania the perfect place for a holiday
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I have been wondering to myself why people think Albania is such a dodgy country. On the whole the people are very friendly, most people honk and wave, and every few minutes there will be someone shouting (often from a far off hillside) "HELLO!!!!" in a very enthusiastic manner. The kids are all very curious (and this is probably one of the things which makes unprepared people feel uneasy), they often stand in the middle of the road and try and flag you down to ...
Piss wet through
... in the centre of Pogradec. Giving me one last goofy smile, Major Pullump Dodd gave me a limp handshake before mincing off to no doubt listen to his beloved George Michael CD's. A favourite of his apparently.
Once I left Albanian territory I walked through the no mans land towards the Macedonian border point. The tarmac road ran along the quiet southern flank of the beautiful Lake Ohrid. Upon reaching the border I became a little bewildered. I don't think ...
Meandering through Macedonia
... 3am, particularly if you've just walked Belgrade and have driven 3 quarters the length of Serbia and half the length of Macedonia the same day.
The next day (5 June) we set out to walk the sites of Skopje. After a quick walk back through the buskers festival we found the closed tourist information centre. So with just the lonely planet guide in hand the 3 of us tried to find out way around this beautiful city. Our first stop found ourselves in the ...


