Another travel day! We left this morning via private bus at 9am. I got up at 7 to go across to the food hall (like a massive food stall market) and grab some lunch stuff before departure. Breakfast was brought to our room again - delightful.
The drive was about 4 hours total including border crossing time. Unfortunately our driver seemed to be very tired and his eyes kept shutting momentarily. It was freaking me out quite a bit as he liked to go pretty fast as well. Brian went up and sat next to him and turned up the music to keep him up. He also bought him two coffees to keep him going.
We did make it safe and sound around 3ish. I've got a new roomie so we got settled in our room and then we were all off again for a walk in lovely Skopje, Macedonia. This place is so strange. It's a bit like a European Vegas. There are insane statues everywhere. Huge, elaborate statues surrounded by fountains with the whole Mirage fountain like effects going on. We tried to keep track of how many statues we saw and it was somewhere up in the hundreds. It is a poorer town however, and so it's strange to see this mix of areas where there has obviously been a lot of money put into and then there are poor children begging, garbage everywhere, and unfinished buildings as well.
It was really hot out today - about 28. With all the rain we've been getting it's the hottest it's been in a while. Some of us split for lunch and a beer after the walk. I had a Greek salad. I miss the Greek food! The girls and I walked up to the fortress after that and walked along the wall - really nice views!
I was a sweaty mess after that so it was time for a shower before dinner! Then of course we all met for our pre-dinner wine and chocolate. For din din I kind of took a gamble and went with a local random dish the server chose really, since I couldn't understand him. It turned out to be yum - chicken and pork sautéed with onions, peppers, and mushrooms with these sort of baked potato chips on the side. My tummy was feeling a little off all day so I had a coca-cola for the first time in years (other than mixed with rum of course) to help kill off any bad stuff. I learned this trick in Southeast Asia and it seemed to work, but perhaps it's more of a mental trick than anything.
Tomorrow we have a really early morning since we're off to the lake for a couple of days. I'm extra excited for the lake because it's apparently a good place to do laundry for cheap so I've been holding off for quite some time now.
I have no pictures to post from today sadly since I was having camera issues. I've got it all figured out for tomorrow, however! For fun, I will post a picture from back in Belgrade, Serbia of me drinking out of a natural spring fountain in the street:
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