Arrived in Skopje, I've been welcomed
from my host, Adrian, that was waiting for me so long time, and I
went to his place to put the luggage. After we went to look for a
club where they product their own beer.
In the bar we choose there wasn't so much people, so we decide to take a walk in the city.
Skopje is quite different from my expectations. The city centre is huge and good to see.
There you will find the biggest statue in Europe dedicated to Alexander the Great.
In the bar we choose there wasn't so much people, so we decide to take a walk in the city.
Skopje is quite different from my expectations. The city centre is huge and good to see.
There you will find the biggest statue in Europe dedicated to Alexander the Great.
Also, another place to visit is the
Gran Bazar, where you will find every kind of shop and a lot of
clubs.
The 5th of jenuary, woke up at 13h, we ate something and we went to take a coffee.
After, we went to take an humburger, so good and huge, and after another rest during evening.
During the evening we went to a Narghilea place, one of the most famous during summer.
Obviously, beeing winter, the club was quite empty.
We went to Shanti hostel where we met the organizers of the event and a participant.
That night, there was the “orthodox Christmas”, so in every street and neighborhood, there was a campfire and all the families were celebrating together the festivity with food and drinks.
The party was also with traditional dances around the fire.
The following day, for tradition, at the singing of the rooster, the children of the quarter meet each other to sing in front of the houses, a traditional song asking for money, food or a general present for christmas.
We met with the organizers and participants to go out and party for the second part of the orthodox christmas.
In this part, is celebrated a big dinner and cooked a piece of bread with inside a coin. The bread, after, is shared between the members of the family and the one that will take the coin, will be lucky for the rest of the year.
The day after was the beginning of the event.
As usual, I woke up late and, after lunch, we prepared the luggages to go to the hostel.
The family that host me and another italian guy , started to cry.
That family that offered us a lot of ospitality and friendliness, let me remembered about the first experiences in AEGEE and first goodbye I had to say in my life without knowing if I would been able to see again a person or not.
Now, I'm able to front these situations but sometimes happen that I feel sadness for people that leave with I create a really great relationship and that I will be not able to see them soon.
Once we started the event, we had a bit of time to know each other, regards the old friends and take a shower.
After, we went to a Kafana to eat something, a tipical place in balkanic countries, and after dinner, I came back to the hostel cause I felt sick.
The day after we took part to the city tour. Between other stuffs, one of the curiosities of Skopje is that the city changed a lot in the last 5 years, infact Skopje is completely different from the city of 2007.
This is for a cultural project that took place in Skopje for increment the cultural patrimony of the city.
With this venture, they create the statue of Alexander the Great, the main square, rebuilt some bridges and new buildings. For it, they paid around 600 milions of euro.
The evening we took part in a workshop about traditional dances and after we partecipated to Bar Crawl, ending in a club to dance.
The 5th of jenuary, woke up at 13h, we ate something and we went to take a coffee.
After, we went to take an humburger, so good and huge, and after another rest during evening.
During the evening we went to a Narghilea place, one of the most famous during summer.
Obviously, beeing winter, the club was quite empty.
We went to Shanti hostel where we met the organizers of the event and a participant.
That night, there was the “orthodox Christmas”, so in every street and neighborhood, there was a campfire and all the families were celebrating together the festivity with food and drinks.
The party was also with traditional dances around the fire.
The following day, for tradition, at the singing of the rooster, the children of the quarter meet each other to sing in front of the houses, a traditional song asking for money, food or a general present for christmas.
We met with the organizers and participants to go out and party for the second part of the orthodox christmas.
In this part, is celebrated a big dinner and cooked a piece of bread with inside a coin. The bread, after, is shared between the members of the family and the one that will take the coin, will be lucky for the rest of the year.
The day after was the beginning of the event.
As usual, I woke up late and, after lunch, we prepared the luggages to go to the hostel.
The family that host me and another italian guy , started to cry.
That family that offered us a lot of ospitality and friendliness, let me remembered about the first experiences in AEGEE and first goodbye I had to say in my life without knowing if I would been able to see again a person or not.
Now, I'm able to front these situations but sometimes happen that I feel sadness for people that leave with I create a really great relationship and that I will be not able to see them soon.
Once we started the event, we had a bit of time to know each other, regards the old friends and take a shower.
After, we went to a Kafana to eat something, a tipical place in balkanic countries, and after dinner, I came back to the hostel cause I felt sick.
The day after we took part to the city tour. Between other stuffs, one of the curiosities of Skopje is that the city changed a lot in the last 5 years, infact Skopje is completely different from the city of 2007.
This is for a cultural project that took place in Skopje for increment the cultural patrimony of the city.
With this venture, they create the statue of Alexander the Great, the main square, rebuilt some bridges and new buildings. For it, they paid around 600 milions of euro.
The evening we took part in a workshop about traditional dances and after we partecipated to Bar Crawl, ending in a club to dance.
The 3rd day of the
event, we went to Mavrovo, one of the most knew ski place in
Macedonia.
Unfortunatly there wasn't snow, so we took part in an alternative plan.
Unfortunatly there wasn't snow, so we took part in an alternative plan.
The first day there we went to Marka Canyon.
This is one of the canyon with one of the deepest caves in Europe. The canyon now present one big dam that keep and depurate the water. Here we went in a kind of little electric boat. At the beginning it seems very unbalanced, but after I felt safe.
From here we arrived in Mavrovo e we took the rooms. The place wasn't so good, but for three day we could survived.
The day after, we've been in the monastery of St.Bogorski. Also the same day they organized a workshop about macedonian traditions and european night, where happen, as normal, almost everything.
The last day we took the funicular railway in the ski place to see the view from the top of the racetrack.
I was scared cause, over that was the first time taking the funicular, the sistem didn't seems so safe.
The view was amazing also with cold and wind.
The evening was a lot of free time and during the night we read the gossip box. During it, the electricity start to miss, and that create a lot of delay. In the end we went to a club and we came back with private minibus.
After Mavrovo, we came back to Skopje
in Shanti hostel.
After drinking in the hostel a lot of shots of Rakija, a kind of grappa that you can find in balkans, we went to different clubs to spend the night.
He best is the one with live music in Gran Bazar, where the atmosphere is always quite good.
We went in a club of latin music for the “old new year” and we met some mecedonian girls that took us in another club where we finished the night.
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