Tokin House Bitola

... Als Tourist hat man dies alles fuer sich. <br><br>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.<br><br>Gruss<br>Ralf

Hallo zusammen,<br><br>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:-) <br><br>Gruss<br>Ralf<br>

Hallo zusammen, <br><br>viele Gruesse aus Ohrid in Mazedonien, meinem 123 Land. Der Bus ist morgens um 2 Uhr in Ohrid angekommen, das war mir zu frueh um auf den Sonnenaufgang zu warten (oder ich werde allmaehlich alt, take your pick:-)), also habe ich mir noch ein Zimmer genommen (Hostels gibt es hier keine, aber Privatunterkuenfte, einer hat mich sogar um diese Uhrzeit am Busbahnhof abgefangen). Endlich eine ...

Version francaise plus bas After 48 hours of travel, including a short trip in Frankfurt, waiting for a connecting flight (Ah! German Wurst and Kraut!), we finally arrived in Bitola at 3 in the morning. For those that don't know the FYRM, more commonly known as Macedonia, is an ex-Yugoslav republic where Alexander the Great was born 2300 years ago. The capital is Skopje, although the most important city is Bitola, famous for the birth of Marija ...

Bitola was a less than thrilling day trip from Ohrid. We wandered around for three hours and got quite bored. The most exciting part of the trip had to be the drive to and from. We hired a car for the same price as bus tickets and then nearly died of fume inhalation going up and down Macedonia's many mountains.

... are strolling, you can hear several bells going off around you all at once. The best part for me though about Ohrid is the lake. It's one of the oldest in the world and definitely of Europe. Age is similar to Lake Titicaca and some other African lake. Strolling alongside the lake was quite enjoyable, except when it rained. But got a good glance of sunset over Kaneo.

... site of ruins sporting a few intact mosaics and you're asking $10-20 from people that want to record the experience? Hah! In light of that, I was doubly unmoved about having missed the site. I'm not terribly overwhelmed so far with Macedonia at the moment, even if Ohrid is admittedly very pretty. I guess my expectations were higher. The scenery here is quite splendid in parts, but then I've had great scenery ever since Trieste (central Croatia and parts of northern ...

... Our tour guide told us that to her, the Gospel of Jacob is as true as the Bible. Truer, even. As we were leaving, she showed us her Ph D treatise. It has been bound and very soon would it be submitted to her professors, who would grant her a doctorate. We wished her luck. Hopefully those prof's don't bring up that Joseph and Mary had to go to Bethlehem to register in a census without any of Joseph's other children... Certainly the Patriarch at Constinapole in 1452 would ...

... the LP guidebook makes me understand now why some sites of tourist interest are deliberately left out of guidebooks. In this monastery's case, the visitors are not a bad thing. However, it is easy to imagine that if the monastery had twice as many visitors a week, it would be untenable. It's pretty understandable that Karlist looks forward to the solitude of Winter. He has no guests for months at a time and then he can assume his monkly obligations of prayer, work and ...