Magnus Hotel (International Youth Center) Ohrid

... Als Tourist hat man dies alles fuer sich.

Philip II, Vater von Alexander dem Grossen, gruendete nahe Bitola die Stadt Heraclea Lyncestis die bis in die byzantinische Zeit eine bedeutende Stadt war, im 4 Jahrhundert auch wichtige christliche Stadt wurde mit einer Basilika, von der heute noch gute Bodenmosaike erhalten sind. Die Stadt wurde dann von den Goten und erneut von den Slawen gepluendert und verfiel dann.

Gruss
Ralf

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 ...

I opt to chill out for the day and stay in Ohrid. Pretty, peaceful, good hostel, friendly people … The girls, recovering Celine and I explore the town. The highlights are the tiny, Orthodox churches from a half century ago. Lots of personality, interesting frescoes with a backdrop of the mountains and lake. The views as we ...

... and local beer. After the rain we went to the appropriately titled "Fish Restaurant" as Efren had a taste for lake trout. The trout did not disappoint. Craig ate light as the tummy has been acting up a bit :)

The real joy in Ohrid is just getting lost wandering the back streets. The traditional Ottoman architecture is breathtaking, and the lushness of the gardens and verandas hard to believe. We saw plump grapes and raspberries, gorgeous roses ...

salut tout le monde... j'ai appris une chose durant ce voyage: quand l'unesco decide de nommer un endroit comme faisant partie du patrimoine mondial, ca vaut la peine de visiter cet endroit... voila ce qui m'arrive a ohrid, dans le sud-ouest de la macedoine, tout pres de l'albanie qu'on voit au loin... la macedoine c'est l'enfant pauvre de l'ex-yougoslavie et aussi l'enfant mal aime...quand la slovenie ...

... ze poprzedniej nocy spalismy tak dlugo, tym razem nie moglismy zasnac. Czas umililiśmy sobie, sluchajac muzyki i bitwami na poduszki :o). Spedzilismy w Ohrydzie dwa urocze dni, wypoczelismy i naladowalismy akumulatory energia. Czas bylo ruszac dalej. ENGLISH: The poem you can read above, was quoted during the Macedonian Literature class by my ...

We left Nick's with 3½ days to get to the Exit festival in Serbia (more on that later). The first half day we got precisely 60km, parked up for a rest (there'd been a few late nights in Greece), and decided we were just too tired to drive any further, so parked up for the night. Part-timers, eh? We crossed into Macedonia (again, they didn't spot we had no insurance! Saved us $70 for a one and a half days) and thought even though we were behind schedule we ...

... share some of my Bulgarian rakia I brought with me. One girl spoke great English, and with the rest of them I was able to speak Bulgarian with little problems. Bulgarian and Macedonian are rediculously close to eachother, like 2 dialects of the same langauge. an added bonus is that my dialect from Belitsa, which is pretty strong since it developed isolated in the mountains, lies somewhere inbetween Bulgarian and Macedonian. Around 6 AM i headed ...

... out rooms in his apartment(ala George in Montpellier) and he charges the exhorbitant price of TEN EUROS a night per person. Wow, how will we afford this. We then head straight to the bank and pull out some Macedonian currency(the Donar). I pull out 2500 bucks, about 50 bucks worth. It is so cool being in Macedonia because of how cheap it is. We stop for a burger at a little stand and it costs us a whole dollar. Fries were extra but we thought it would ...