Hotel 7 Skopje

... and unfortunately, Greece and Macedonia don't get along too well so it was no surprise that my plans to travel from Skopje (Macedonia) to Thessaloniki (Greece) were to be foiled. Due to budget cuts, Greece had suspended the train from Skopje and tomorrow ...

... at Macedonian with a woman next to us and continued on for the rest of the ride! The scenery along the road to Skopje is really fantastic. The lombardy poplar grows abundantly, and although most of them had lost all but the leaves at their very tips, ...

... Balkans in a camper van and chatted until the church closed. Unfortunately for us, that was at three when everything else in Skopje closed too. We were a bit bummed out so we walked around for a while through some street markets before deciding to take ...

... igjen og spiste en god lunsj. Det er mange trivelige spisesteder. Etterpå gikk vi over broen igjen og tilbake til det moderne Skopje. I solsteken gikk vi til bussterminalen, og det var et godt stykke, og orientert oss om buss videre til Ohrid. Vi ...

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... I asked her if she knew where there were any decent places to buy beer and she simply gave me a map of Skopje and pointed at the dot marked "Hotel" repeatedly.  I'm not sure which hotel it was from because the "Hotel" dot was nowhere near where ...

... and we could easily make out the hideous monstrosity that called itself the post office. “Let's visit the Liberation of Skopje Monument,” announced Michael. “It's down there past the post office.” When we reached it, it looked ...

... our passports were taken away, and we were happy to both receive Macadonia entry stamps this time! Shortly thereafter we arrived at Skopje's bus station.  After where we've been for the past few weeks, Skopje seemed like a major metropolis.  ...

... 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 the bus station and take the first bus out leaving for Lake Ohrid, ...

... angular, modernist park littered with abstract sculptures. Close to the centre sat the attractive Mother Teresa House, commemorating Skopje’s most famous daughter. Through a grand arch – currently obscured with green-netted scaffolding – ...

... . We all decided that if we hadn't already purchased our tickets for the train to Belgrade, we would have really liked staying in Skopje for a night. The people were just so helpful(even though they almost never spoke any English) and just made you feel ...