Not all who wander are lost
After a magical first night on the Ohrid waterfront, we were looking forward to exploring the surrounding area and old town more. We learned that the correct way to pronounce Ohrid is to put a bit of a “kh” sound after the h (OH-KREED), something all of the Western travelers in our group had trouble…
Sad to leave the majestic capital city of Skopje, but excited for the continued adventure, we packed up from the Marriott Skopje hotel after breakfast and got on the road to Stobi. Our plan for the day entailed a lot of driving, or at least our bus driver Dragan and his Dragon doing most of…
After our Skopje tour, Alex, Bobby and Ann met our driver organized through the Marriott Skopje hotel in the lobby for our afternoon trip to Pristina, Kosovo. The day before we got to work getting in touch with a Kosovo guide contact, Bekim, that Nida had, and also started figuring out with the larger group…
After a long day of driving from Sophia and Rila Monastery, we crossed the border into North Macedonia and reached the capital city Skopje. As usual, our bus driver Dragan squeezed into another tight spot right in front of the Marriott Hotel Skopje so that we could easily disembark. We got in to the room…
After a great day mostly on our own in Sophia, we were sad to leave but leave we must – onward to North Macedonia and Skopje, via Rila Monastery! We had a light breakfast since it was not great at the Grand Hotel Sophia, and quite frankly we were glad to leave given how old…
The next morning in Sofia, we had a meh breakfast at the hotel and then headed out into the city and met our guide Reina. Firstly, Reina taught us how to pronounce the name of the city, Sofia, which was more SOH-fee-uh than the Americanized Soh-FEE-uh. Our first stop in Sofia was at the Ivan…
