Kapistec Skopje

... laid flowers at the foot of it. You know I am all about digging up the obscure and unknown and I learned something today about my journey into Kosovo. Use this at your Tuesday night trivia contest...

The guy's name is Adem Pajaziti and was a leader of what I think was the Kosovar terrorist group leading the opposition to Serbian forces in the 1990s. I say terrorist because I got the info from someone partial to Serbs since he is ...

... between them, so total mastery may never be complete, but still it's nice to be able to read a menu, regardless of whether I can actually speak the language. People talk about the difficulties of Croatian, exclaiming, "At least they use Roman letters!" when in fact that's the easiest part. I wish I could absorb a language acoustically as fast as I can its graphic symbols. That may be the one part of language that you actually ...

Monday: Just a typical Monday.. oh wait, except the part where I didn't have to go to work. Ha ha! Serious though, even though I am having a very good time.. well I kinda miss my work- shhhh... don't tell my boss!!! Okay, so at noon Marija and I headed downstairs to her uncle's house. Bazhe's grandmother invited us to come and eat Mekica. I was told that she makes the best Mekicas and well, they were very delicous! This time I had them with white ...

... what the man was chanting but it was really beautiful. To watch the ceremony, it was very traditional and very structured but amazingly spectacular. They took pictures of everyone there and then we headed to go eat. At the restaurant they showered Kiril with gifts and he definitely knew it was his day! I am counting down the days of this week, because this is my last week here in Macedonia. So til, tomorrow- have a great and happy day!

... in the museum, cause we paid extra for me to do so. I got a picture of the "Tragic Mask", but only the replica- the real one is in a museum in Belgrade. Back outside of the museum we had witnessed one of the workers finding an artifact. He told me to take a picture of him with it since he was the founder. He also told us to get his autograph. Those guys working were all funny and nice. On up the place is an ancient theatre that is also used still. I must say that I ...

After walking around Skopje for about two hours, I had seen just about everything I wanted to see. Old Bazaar area was nice - it's now filled with modern shops for the locals instead of tourist **** like in Sarajevo. I also visited an old Turkish bathhouse that was turned into the Modern Art Museum. It was a beautiful building, but none of the artwork was all that interesting to me. The Christmas tree in the center square was really pretty - the lights on it ...

... of. Transfer to the Lake Matka , the pearl of Skopje,sightseeing of the canyon of river Treska, visit to the monastery St. Andrea (15th century) and the monastery of the Holy Mother of God, lunch in a restaurant in the canyon.

... who either "fed" the family or were University graduates. I was both, but the term of duty seemed long never the less. So, we, Marija and myself, decided that we fill up our coffers of memories and live on them during the duration of the duty which was going to be interspersed, we hoped and planned, with visits. Still, the idea of hiking up to the North Pole seemed great, it invigorated us, we felt very young and mighty again and that was. It did not take much ...

... with Macedonia and hope we get lucky. Yesterday was a very long day of travel, an 8 hour ferry, then a 5 hour train and then another 4 hour train. So we got into Skopje last night about midnight and as soon as we walked out of the train station we met some guy that offered us a room to stay for 15 Euros per person, which is somewhat cheap because apparently accomodations here are a little pricey while all else is ...

... of some of the regular's staff.Fear meant that the Macedonians pref**red to deploy Albanians near to this rebel t**ritory,but it led to inevitable security compromises.So,as M would say,"the oldest trick in the book" worked,with no little help from a less than ruthless checkpoint,and we w**e home and dry. Ljuboten was a mixed village,but with an Albanian majority.Ev**ybody we met appeared to be in the resistance.It appeared to be the sort of place wh**e ...