Outing to Skopje, North Macedonia I knew that Mother Teresa was ethnic Albanian, but hadn’t realised that she’d been born in Skopje. So I suppose that explains why we drove there via the highway to heaven, Mother Teresa Motorway. The Oldies found a campsite on the outskirts of the city in the grounds of a hotel near the motorway. A bit of an odd set-up perhaps, but quite a handy location for visiting the city centre. As the Oldies got…
Bay of Bones Museum, Ohrid Our next outing to North Macedonia was by car rather than bike so the border took us a fair bit longer this time. But not as long as the American motorcyclist who pulled up beside us – minus his registration plate! ‘lt fell off somewhere in Montenegro’, he explained to the irate customs officer. That I could well believe. On Montenegrin roads, I can imagine all kinds of bits and pieces get rattled off. Sure,…
Outing to Saint Naum Monastery, North Macedonia Can a seagull not get a bit of peace at all? Here we are on a small, quiet campsite by the lake, well outside the city of Pogradec. On the nearby potholed dirt track they laughingly call a road there‘s hardly any traffic. What traffic there is crawls by so slowly that it barely registers on the decibel scale. But what do I have to put up with? Bloody peacocks of all things,…