Laki Skopje
Leninova 79 Skopje, Macedonia
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Border Crossings and Far Too Many Statues
... for a while there though.
I was knackered by the time I got to Skopje so only had a bit of a look around. The Embassy there for the US is apparently the biggest in the world. It was like a fortress. Amazing. Didn't want to risk taking any photos of it though. They have a pretty cool castle though. But Skopje essentially has two things interesting about it. The first, you can't actually look at anything because all the main attractions are head to toe ...
Long last...arrival in the US!
... to head into the EU travel section of the airport for all the good shopping and lounging and restaurants.
For my flight over the Atlantic, I was upgraded to first class - love it. Reclining, massaging chairs, 5 course meals and champagne, lovely. I'm not sure I can go back to economy :)
We were met at the airport by family, and headed to the carousel to grab our many suitcases. My luggage was somehow left in NY - ugh- to ...
Episode 24
... it is: World Wide organization of organic farms. In Australia it has quite a large membership. What it does is look for people who want the opportunity to spend a few weeks in another country helping on an organic farm where their accommodation and food is provided in return for 4 to 5 hours work per day. It then links them up with organic farmers looking for workers.
The day after we arrived in Skopje the weather turned bad again with grey skies ...
Day 115 : Rollin' with the Big Dog
... was mesmerising (as well as slightly dizzying in the 43 degree heat), and we were drawn towards the market place which was one of the most filled and noisy we'd seen to date. Beautiful fresh produce, being given a bunch of free tomatoes and mixing it with the locals was a great experience which ended with one stall owner correctly guessing I was Malaysian. As in Serbia, and the rest of the Balkans, it was ...
Home of Alexander the Great
We got up in a beautiful spot in Greece. 82 degrees, just about perfect. We started north toward Macedonia, crossing through a range of snow capped mountains to get there. As we entered Macedonia, the mountains were pretty, and as we dropped down out of them, we came to flatter, fertile farmland necessary to support the once powerful civilization here. The photos of ...
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