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Lady in the Balkans
Blog: A Lady in London - 3 October 2011
Most people thought I was crazy to travel to the Balkans by myself. I was lectured on safety, on health, on everything imaginable. But I had been curious about the region for years, not least because the only thing I really knew about it related to the conflicts in the 1990’s. There was surely more [...]
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Lady on Lake Ohrid
Blog: A Lady in London - 26 September 2011
Lake Ohrid is paradise. Straddling the border between Albania and Macedonia, the ancient body of water lies at the base of green mountains and stone fortresses. Its perimeter is dotted with towns and villages that are home to some of the most important churches in Macedonian Orthodox history. The most famous of these is aptly [...]
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Halved Over Ohrid
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 8 May 2011
It is rare for me to be so divided over a place, to both love somewhere and hate it at the same time. But the lakeside town of Ohrid in south-western Macedonia did that to me.
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Losing Daylight.
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 9 November 2010
Ohrid, Macedonia. After the all you can eat breakfast of toast, coffee, deciding when to go to the bus stop and just downright laziness; Kevin, 2 Dutch guys and myself head off to the bus station. Crammed in to a small 4 door hatchback with backpacks squishing us into the thing. We get ripped off [...]
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Day 192: A day in the world's newest capital
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 22 August 2010
Lake Ohrid We're passing through Macedonia en route eastwards to Bulgaria. Made a short stopover at Lake Ohrid, Europe's oldest and deepest ("and cleanest" joked a local). Nice little old town that carried a faint aura of glamour without matching prices. It's a party town in summer - our room was right above two clubs blasting hits from the last two decades, enough to keep us awake in bed til
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Mission improbable
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 16 October 2009
Before getting on the bus last night, I nipped to the restaurant I’d gone to the night before. I then filled myself up with penne arrabiata and left. Just the trick. I also had time to do a bit of research for getting to Thessaloniki, there are many different options with different complication, price and [...]
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