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<\/a><\/p>\nAcross from it is this structure, which is a bit of a landmark for me. You can see it is quite run down.<\/p>\n
As a stationary and office supplies nut, a store devoted to Staedtler and 3M products made me drool!<\/p>\n Yet another\u00a0church. I’ve seen so many churches and mosques since I got to the Balkans!<\/p>\n The city felt dead. There was very little open. I wanted a cheap fast food joint, like a pizza place, for a late lunch but I met one shut door after another. This is the first city I’ve been in that appears to shut down on the weekends. I hope tomorrow won’t be a wash… I finally found a hamburger joint that was open. The owner quickly switched to English and apologised for not having an English menu. He was delighted that I was able to handle the Macedonian menu without needing help. I asked for onion rings inside of fries and he upgraded me for free! I’m sad to report that was the highlight of my day. *wry grin* Lunch was very expensive, on par with what a fast food burger combo is in Canada, 8CAD, and I wish I’d noticed the prices before committing, even though my meal was very tasty. But it ended up being the only non sit down type restaurant I found in two whole hours of ambling, not counting bakeries, and I’m rather sick of puff pastry. So, really, it was that or my leftover pasta from last night and then I would have had to find dinner food…<\/p>\n There are some nice buildings in Skopje, but I have yet to see anything that I know is genuinely old.<\/p>\n I thought that the colours add a lot of panache and visual appeal to an otherwise ugly building.<\/p>\n The red double decker buses really made me laugh.<\/p>\n Some of Skopje’s MANY statues. I will explain about that after my walking tour tomorrow. If said tour doesn’t happen, I’ll cobble together something from my internet research. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n *squints at label* This is Hristo Uzunov, a Bulgarian revolutionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some of the nicer graffiti I’ve seen in my lifetime.<\/p>\n Or maybe the building was designed that way? A question to ask a guide.<\/p>\n Here’s Skopje’s famous Alexander the Great statue.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n