Hotel Bellevue Ohrid

Hallo zusammen,

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.

Die Stadt ist natuerlich nicht uebermaessig gross, hatte 3h Aufenthalt, neben der Stadt gibt es allerdings noch eine weitere Sehenswuerdigkeit 2km ...

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

... meine erste seit Wellington:-)

Mazedonien ist seit Januar 1992 unabhaengig, das einzige Land aus dem Ex-Jugoslawien, aus dem die jugoslawische Armee ohne Kampf abgezogen ist. Trotzdem ist das Land nicht ohne Probleme, die Griechen moegen den Namen nicht (mehr als die Haelfte des historischen Mazedoniens liegt heute in Griechenland, der Flughafen von Thessaloniki heisst auch Mazedonischer Flughafen ...

... many of them with UK plates. How can people so poor.... ahhh, the penny drops! Heard rumours about stolen top-end cars being smuggled out in containers: this is were they end up!
However, we are whizzing along now at 90: super! All the way to Tirane. Getting around Tirane an absolute nightmare - no signs anywhere - & heaving with traffic! After several hours we eventually find road out to Elbasan, which promptly turns into a ...

I must admit I have been presently suprised by how beatiful Macedonia is. Before I came I didnt know much about it and have been suprised by its nautal beatuy. I managed to wake up around 6am, as the clocks went one hour behind when I crossed into Macedonia it was really 7am. I managed to grab some breakfast before heading off to the bus station to catch the bus to Orhid. I had to wait an hour and the bus journey took us through some lovely hilly and mountain ...

... after what we had encountered at the boarder and headed towards Bulgaria only 400 km to go! However we hadn't taken into account hitting rush hour in the capital, Skopje! It was totally mental with no-one taking any notice of the traffic lights, people and random animals on the road, the pollution and the vast amount of cars, cows, carts, trucks and home made vechiels! I calmly turned to Ned and said, this is just like Bangkok I can now drive anywhere baby, I can now drive anywhere!

... s very sweet, but I felt bad that I wasn't very hungry. Bukurije ( Melisa's mother) made and offered Komad and Melon to us. Of course we ate as much as we could, but we were taking Melisa with us to the charshija. So she told us that she will save our left over for us when we got back. So off to the charshija and the river walk. The river in Struga coming out of the lake is the same river going into the ...

... is good for the soul, I think. Also eating too, by the time we got back to Ohrid.. I was needing to replenish. Marija took me to a place to get pizza called Nemo- like Finding "Nemo"- cute right?!!! They had a fish tank with fish in there that actually looked like Nemo. They also had exellent pizza there. Marija finally got me to try this drink that tastes like coffee, I tried it... ( with lots of sugar)!!!! I think we will come back to ...

... to bar Macedonia from joining the UN until their changed their name to "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia." Oh vey! So, Aristo ranted about such things for three hours whilst showing us a fishing village that looked like a continuation of Ohrid, a church, a bat, and a cave where he and his buddies have BBQs in the summer. Great...Final verdict was that we were glad to have gone out on the lake, but that the "tour" was pretty crummy. In Ohrid ...

... we didn't find it. Next day we headed for the bus station to go to see a church on our way to cross over to Albania. A cab driver offered us the same fare so we took him up on it. A cafe said we could leave our bags with them whilst we looked around. The water here was even clearer than it had been over in Ohrid. Crystal. There was a spa that you could visit too which explained the clear water. The church was Sveti Naum and is on the edge of ...