Mramor Skopje

... and cheap since I had bought something similar in Poland just a few weeks ago. Even the packaging had the same inviting look that just makes you want to put a few in your basket. Why not stock up at 33 cents a pop?<br><br>I settled down on a bench greatly anticipating the tuna I was for whatever reason craving. I carefully peeled the flimsy lid off one of the tins and started dipping my roll into the pinkish colored spread. The ...

... bus to Sofia leaves from Skopje, and that's still an hour and another bus ride away, something I didn't like in the original plan, and am now regretting. If you want to traipse the Balkans, bring a friend. You might need it. We persevere on to Skopje, where there's a bus to Sofia at midnight. So we buy tickets and have time to kill; things are looking up. It'll be Sofia by morning, an up-and-coming tourist destination, there and ...

... buy another bag to go home with , but the problem was that the zipper didn't work well. So, instead of taking it back and exchanging it, Sashe gave me a bigger one to take. Yay! Sashe... cause bigger was better, I could not fit everything I needed too in the other one. While we were waiting on Sashe, Beti stopped by to wish me a good trip and to say goodbye. I was blessed with a gift to remember my trip, she got me a picture frame ...

... by but they seemed friendly. We stopped at this one cafe and I had gotten a banana milk shake and a pepsi. The milk shakes are nothing like the ones we have in the states. They tasted like an instant, watered down, thing with one ice cube to make it cold..... it was gross, but I drank as much of it as I could, so not to offend anyone. We headed back to the house to meet up with Sashe and Zoran. Back at the house we found the guys working ...

... much. Later we had Marija's cousin Filip(Phillip) stop by. We thought he wanted to visit with us, but turns out he just wanted to watch a program on tv that he didn't have! Visited with him for a while, then they wanted to take a vote on when to go to the store, this evening or in the morning. I chose evening cause I didn't want to get up early. We won and Marija didn't like that we all ganged up on her. HeHe!! They are all strange here, cause ...

... the real price is 1 &euro; !!!!!),but what can we do ,you learn mistakes by making them,isn't it? Next morning we had classes till 17 h,and it was like that all week; how I don't think you are interested in what we did in classes I will write some facts about Skopje and mine impressions. Skopje was the part of Yugoslavia and now is the capital of Macedonia Republic ( Or Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,because Greece doesn't like that anybody uses Macedonia ...

... mellow enough to enjoy things. It didn't work. I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to find the nice aspects of the place, wandering throughout the mazelike streets of the old Carsija district. I made sure to stop in at a church and a mosque or two. I hiked up to the castle to take the whole city in. At the end of it all, it was still just a big, ugly capital city heavy on concrete monstrosities with little more than a scraping of the past crammed in. The fairly green mountains all ...

If the border officials on the Bulgarian side, whether the police or the customs does not matter, were told that they will find themselves transferred to Besarabia if insist on maltreating the tourists with Macedonian passports - then the trip from Skopje to Sofia will take something like three short hours at the worst. It is only 227 km. But then, there has ...

... and find a different taxi driver to take us to a hotel. Right as we are leaving, the two goons come out of the side hatch we just exited from and stare us down as we drive away. I wonder what would have happened had we gone with the first taxi driver? Well, we finally end up at a reasonably priced hotel and pretty much all just pass out from exhaustion. We wake the next morning to a great free breakfast from the hotel and feel we have had enough already of Skopje. We take a taxi to ...

... Romanovce,on the opposite side of the rebel held Black Mountains from us,to the east near to the city of Kumanovo.Aft**wards,on the way back to Skopje,they had been stopped at a roadblock,and had all their cam**as smashed and photographs seized. Filled with this che**y thought,Hans demonstrated his cam**a's long lens to me,to show me how far away you could see through it.At this point we spotted 2 helicopt**s,flying from right to left across our field of ...