Day1🇬🇷🇲🇰

Hello everybody!
Our road trip to the Balkans has began. We started our Saturday morning early, made our sandwiches and started the long journey through Greece - our final destination for the day was Skopje, North Macedonia. The majority of the journey I was driving since the roads were familiar and I wouldn’t get too nervous with where I’m going. On the way, we listened to a little bit of music (Gojira 🤘🏼mostly since this is Lampros’s favorite at the moment) and then a couple of podcasts that I’ve been following. We made a stop in Almyros, Volos and bought a couple of coffees. Just before the Greek-North Macedonian border control, Lampros took the wheel and led the way. We had our sandwiches and finally arrived in Skopje around 16:30 local time (N.Macedonia is an hour behind Greece). The host at the booking we had booked was very friendly and kind, helped us use the car-lift for the parking and told us where to eat and hang out in the city. We left everything in the room and headed off exploring!
Skopje is a small capital city and everything is approachable by walking distance. Their currency is dinar which equals to 61D=1€. We visited the stone bridge, which is a symbol of the town, the Macedonia square, the national theatre and the old town Bazaar. We also saw the statue of brothers and apostles of the Slavs, Cyril and Methodius - the Byzantine empire sent these two brothers from Thessaloniki to teach and spread Christianity to the Slavs - they also created the alphabet these countries use, also known as Cyrillic alphabet. (Τι σου κάνει η ιστορία της Ε δημοτικού!! ααααχ!) There were a lot of street musicians (mostly Roma/Gypsies), and we noticed a lot of Muslims too (from the scarf around their heads). The old town Bazaar had a lot of jewellery shops, with lots of gold/silver pieces in the windows, I presume meant for the weddings they do. The weird/funny thing is that all the magnets/memorabilia you can find say “Macedonia” instead of “North Macedonia” which is the correct name for the country. Also, they have a lot of Alexander the Great related souvenirs (should they? Not sure🤔). After our walk in town we went to a mall to have a look at the shops and wandered around a super market to buy snacks for tomorrow. We came early back at our room to get some rest cause we have a very early start tomorrow! Stay tuned! 🩷Read more