Hotel Tourist Ohrid

... We flew from Toronto to Amsterdam and then we flew from Amsterdam to Ohrid Macedonia. We will stay in Ohrid 11 nights at a Hotel in Ohrid We will travel around on our own and we will also spend a weekend with our good friends we met in the Virtual ...

... reconstructed fortress which has great views over the lake. At the base of the hill, the cobbled streets have become tourist hangouts with the buildings converted to cafes, shops and icecream stands. Where the cobblestones end the concrete high rise ...

... Albania. The information was patchy, but I could not remember the maps. Normally, in times of blindness like this, I grab the nearest tourist, borrow their LP and start reading/writing down every last bit of info I can find. But the problem here was that ...

... for a place that's just a few months old, but interesting still considering this is supposed to be the country's biggest tourist destination. Anyhow, the flyer said a taxi ride from the bus station should cost only two Euros, which took a bit of ...

... The next day we wanted to head towards Macedonia and Lake Ohrid. We first tried to find out bus times from the tourist information centre, which interestingly enough was manned by an American Peace corps volunteer who had been stationed there, we felt a ...

... airport.British Airways had cancelled all flights to this Balkan capital.Peace talks were on-going in the lakeside tourist resort of Ohrid in the Southwest,but the conflict had escalated and feelings were running high as many villagers fled from KLA ...

... you don't come across much in Albania. Pogradec is a small city that has a lot of potential of turning into a beautiful tourist destination. Their lake shore is very green, with a beautiful boulevard along the lake through most of the town. People ...

... after an uneventful trip. This is the second place we did not book accommodation in advance and wouldn't you know it - the tourist information office was closed permanently, now a storage area, and there wasn't the usual gaggle of women hawking private ...

... sweating but triumphant. To celebrate we had a Skopsko, the local beer, with Elton and Kiki, and as we talked about the tourist trade in Albania, I remembered a book I'd read by author Tony Hawks called One Hit Wonderland. In it, he'd taken a bet that ...

... very welcome and showed us to our comfortable double bed room.  He offered a map showing the handful of tourist sites in the town, and the hotel is right in the center of all the action.  Before heading out for some exploration, Craig called to ...

... -majority town of Tetovo, just 40-50 minutes away to the west. Well, as it turns out, Tetovo isn't much of a tourist destination either. As a matter of fact, it's a pretty butt-ugly place, dominated by charmless apartment blocks and clunky Communist ...

... of Tartu University in the middle of a plateau. Plus magnificent pastoral view. For the schoolkids we represent a kind of tourist attraction. They also consider Tbilisi to be the capital of Estonia. So we've made some progress towards southeast. Fieri is ...

... Montenegro, which was another Balkan highlight - with all the makings of a mini-Croatia, minus the cruise ships and the inflated tourist prices. Well, for now, that is. . . . For all its negative press and unflattering reports from travelers in terms ...

... walls, cobblestone streets, old churches) but packed full of tourists. And most every shop/restaurant in the old town was tourist oriented. There's an English language bookstore so I was able to get a new book that Billy recommended. Kat (from Plovdiv) ...

... meant it was beautifully lit up. You are not supposed to talk in the mosque and its really nice to go to a tourist attraction where (most) people are quiet or whispering which removes the (usual) annoying American and Chinese accents detracting from the ...

... the only train up to Skopje. It was the holiday of Santa Maria in Greece that day so NOTHING, I mean NOTHING was open. The tourist information office was closed, that pretty much sums it up. We ended up just sitting in one of the only open cafes and ...

... 's small international airport, and I got questioned about why I'd been in Kosovo, I simply told the truth. “I've been here as a tourist.” The man looked at me for a while before asking if I’d ever return. I smiled and told him I didn't ...

... need of. Other than being the birthplace of Mother Teresa (one statue to comemerate that) Skopje doesn't have a lot to offer the tourist. Of course there is a fortress (Kale) on top of a mountain overlooking the city which I felt compelled to walk to ...