Hotel Desaret Ohrid
Pestani village, 12 km from Ohrid Ohrid, Macedonia
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Lakeside Views..
June 20th - Not the best start to the day after only having about 5 hours sleep and getting up at about 6am, but I managed to sleep most of the way on the bus as we wound our way South towards Lake Ohrid, a lake that is 2/3 Macedonian and 1/3 Albanian.
After hotel check-in Kirk and I wandered down towards the lakeside to see the beautiful clear water surrounded by green hills. Despite being harassed by a man trying to sell boat trips who popped ...
BALKANTOUR- Macedonia-Fyrom- 2nd part
... She is really a nice person and I remember her with a great pleasure.
Ohrid is an amazing place and I was lucky to spend the Easter week-end in this fantastic city, spending my time walking along the lake and the old town, visiting many old churches, particularly beautiful are the St.Sophia cathedral built as a copy of St.Sophia in Istanbul and St.Kliment i Pantelejmon or Plaosnik that has been rebuilt recently trying to restore it to its original ...
Kosovo and Albania the perfect place for a holiday
... road (a very bad road, but I'll get to that in a bit). He said "hello" and asked where I was from. Most people who speak good English have lived in the UK for a bit although no one yet has known where Hereford is. I told him I lived near the Welsh border, "do you speak Welsh" he replied. I obviously said "no" but told him some friends of mine do (my old flat mate spoke Welsh as his first language). "I speak some Welsh" he replied to my amazement, he then proceeded to spout out some of ...
Piss wet through
... lap that religious bollocks up. On the short journey from Sveti Naum to the town of Ohrid, a group of noisy teenagers repeatedly stopped what they were doing and made the sign of the cross on their head and chests. Every time the bus passed a little icon or church, they would stop shouting, murmur some hail Mary's or something, then carry on their larking about. It was weird to see. And quite disturbing. Being agnostic I find it odd to see such youngsters ...
Meandering through Macedonia
... the prayer session.
After prayer, he was very apologetic that Leah was asked to leave and he was quick to ask us to call her back into the mosque. He continued to finish the tour of the mosque and we ended up discovering he was the Imam (akin to a Priest in a Catholic church).
Ilhan (the Imam's name) asked us what we were doing for the day. We explained that we were trying to see the sights of Skopje and before we knew it Ilhan was ...


