MACEDONIA

Towards Greece we crossed this small country, the first stop, it was the capital city, which is very near to the border with Kosovo, where we had to be very cautious, because the cars that stopped to pick us up could be taxis, and of course, one only finds out when is on the half the way…

Skopje, is a small and very quiet city, surrounded of nature; and with a Turkish bazaar, very lively, noisy, and perfect to get lost during hours and hours; which is accessible through the famous “stone bridge”.


In a long way we went to the most known city of Macedonia, Ohrid, protected by the UNESCO, beside the Lake of Ohrid, the oldest in Europe.
During the way we realized the rivalry that exists between the Muslims (Albanian) and the orthodox ones (Macedonian), as we traveled with different people of different religions, and each one talked badly of the others.

Here we met Al, and other "peace-workers", we pointed very well contacting Al, because from his house we had the best views of the city and the lake.


In the old town of Ohrid, there is a big fort surrounded by a wall; next to the monastery people are digging continuously looking for archaeological remains; everything near the edges of the big lake, where we also were swimming.


The last city was Bitola; where we were fortunate of arriving with Gjupco, who works in Italy, and with his girlfriend; they invited us to have a drink in the city and they had a great gesture with us, giving us some money.
Dragan of HC, show us all the city centre and gave us everything that he had. Not only we went to see him playing football, we also took part of it!

Macedonia is the cheapest country that we have found in the travel, now that we are entering in Greece, we are going to have a big surprise…….