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travel diary – day 425

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day 421 – anzac day – the ferry departed early so we had to leave before daybreak. however, four girls from our hotel had come home drunk and didn’t wake up on time. the hotel owner banged on their door to wake them up and we got going late. we reached the ferry only minutes before it departed, which was lucky. this time the ferry wasn’t crowded so we got a good seat and during the trip we slept and talked.

upon returning to athens we had a late lunch. we repacked our bags, had a shower and got ready. we walked through town but everything was shut so we gave up, grabbed our bags and headed to the train station to wait for our train to sofia. the train departed on time and we slept on the train.

day 422 – we crossed the border in the morning and arrived in sofia. we found a hotel, had coffee, and walked into town. we discovered a farmer’s market which is open every day. the market was really cheap and lots of fun to wander around. the funniest part was the vendors selling fruit wouldn’t let you touch it. you told them what you wanted and they’d pick it for you. we didn’t know and a few vendors got shitty with us for groping their wares! lol

we had a late beer in the city, but it was getting quite cold and we quickly went back to the hotel where we watched a movie on the computer and slept.

day 423 – breakfast was small, so when we went into town i was still hungry. i had a huge slice of pizza and looked at the city map we’d got from the sheraton hotel. we decided what we’d see and went first to the archaeological museum which wasn’t very good. after that we went to the aleksander nevski church and st sofia. we also watched the changing of the guard outside the presidential offices.

while wandering, we stumbled upon a junk market which we looked at briefly and then returned to the farmer’s market where we ate fish and chicken for lunch with some local beer. we also bought a bottle of cheap wine (which turned out to be shit).

we went to the bus station and bought tickets to skopje, then returned to the hotel. i was doing some research about visas and thought that we would have problems entering macedonia. but it turns out that there’s no problem (that we could find) and figured we’d take the risk.

day 424 – after breakfast we packed and checked out. the bus station is close to the hotel so we walked and got our bus to skopje. during the obligatory “border control” rubbish, we got talking to a spanish guy called ‘ham’ with whom we hung out in skopje. after arriving, the three of us walked to the hotel and checked in.

christina and i were incredibly hungry, so we walked into the old city to find some food and an atm. we wandered around for a bit, stumbled upon the old city main streets and found a restaurant with souvlaki. we ate and then walked back through the old city again. after returning to the hotel i bought some beer and in the evening we watched the champions league final on tv. the portugese travelers were cheering for inter because their manager is from portugal, so i was cheering for barcelona and we all had fun.

after the game we sat and talked with the portugese guys. we drank more beer and i headed to bed at around 2am.

day 425 – after breakfast we said goodbye to ham and walked to the bus station. we got straight on a bus which took us to pristina. kosovo is small and easy to get around. we got a hotel for two nights and walked down town for a look around.

we found a bookstore where i bought ‘crime and punishment’ by fedor dostoyevski (for me) and ‘peter pan’ by jm barrie (for christina). we returned to the hotel and relaxed. the liverpool game was on tv and i watched that before going to bed.


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