Hotel Inex Drim Struga

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 ...

... 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).

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.

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 – yeah!) while enjoying the amazing view.

That night, the hostel sponsors a ...

This was one of those days that you just want to do nothing. You don't want to think nor do you want to act. It was too hot to just jump up and get going, so we just lay around the room for a bit. Then Marija called Melisa to see if she wanted to meet us in Struga and go to the beach. We got our bathing suits on and headed down to the charshija. Looking for specific things in the charshija can be challenging I must say. We finally met up with Melisa ...

So, this morning I was a little more tired than I have been these past few days. I woke up around 8 am and did not feel like getting out of bed yet. Marija went on down for breakfast, while I stayed in bed debating wether or not to get up. I finally did get up, only to put on my bathing suit with my clothes on top. We decided to go to the pool before doing some visiting and shopping in Struga. I headed down ...

Day 2: Marija planned our vacaction at Ohrid Lake, so in the car we rode. She had fascinating stops along the way. First stop we made was a place to eat breakfast. There I had a speciality of Macedonian villages called Bakrdan. Bakrdan is made up of cornmeal from corn flower and I had "sour milk" from sheep. I did not like it very well!! I was told that homemade, from her and her mom is better and they only use sour milk from ...

Dear people, I haven't written here for ages because I simply hadn't known how things are or how I would put them. Anyhow, after some weeks of confusion and unclear thoughts, I have decided to leave Macedonia before Christmas and not to return. It is a bit difficult to explain why i came to that conclusion but I'll try. I mentioned that the future of our day centre where i work was unstable and therefore I started to look for another hosting ogganisation and work place ...

Zdravo luge! Greetings from cold Struga. We had an indiansummer here but it came to an end. Now it is time to start to wear winter clother again. So, winter comes even to the summer paradises. :) Since my visit in Finland my mind has been - as usually - here and there and this month has definitely been really interesting. Well, 5.-14.10. i had a lovely opportunity to take part in a training about voluntary management and SCI Sava-group ( = Balkan-working group) meeting in ...

... should be a place called Razhime, where our hotel should be - Paradise Beach. Sounds citche! The sea, althoug not yet swimmable in May, should be lovely-lovely and the beaches pretty. If that wont work out, then the neraby Llgora Pass and postcard town Berat must.