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Etno House Shancheva – Kratovo, Macedonia

02 Aug
Etno House Shancheva - with Stevce Donevski in front of his guesthouse from Kratovo

Etno House Shancheva – Kratovo town Etno House Shancheva. Kratovo was a major mining center in the Macedonian part of the Ottoman Empire. For this reason, Saxon settlers came here during the Middle Ages. Moreover, Kratovo is also known as the town of towers and bridges. The town developed in the crater of a former extinct […]

Balkan Countries Travel Photos

23 May
Horses on the road from Leskovik to Çarshovë

This gallery contains 30 photos.

The photos in the Balkan Countries 2017 Gallery were taken during a two-month-and-a-half road trip through Macedonia, Albania, and Kosovo, in the summer of 2017. Here, you will find photos from Macedonia, Albania, and Kosovo (2017). In the future, I am planning to explore more of this region, though – the countries of former Yugoslavia (summer 2018). […]

Balkan Countries Travel Planning 2017 – Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo

13 May
Balkans Travel Planning

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Balkan Countries Travel Planning 2017 is the summary of my two-month trip to three of the Balkan countries: Macedonia, Albania, and Kosovo, during the summer of 2017 (June – July). The pace of traveling was slow, in accordance with the flexibility I had to go and stay wherever I wanted with my car. Balkan Countries […]

Samothraki Island – pebbled beaches, goat dishes, bouzouki music, Greece

23 Aug
Hora - the capital of Samothraki Island: typical houses

When I returned from Lemnos Island, I reached the port of Kavala late at night. As I wanted to take the morning ferry to Samothraki Island, I decided to drive 120 kilometers on the highway to reach my intermediary destination, the town of Alexandroupolis. I went to the municipal campground in Alexandroupolis where they charged […]

Lemnos Island – secluded beaches, whitewashed chapels, fried octopus, Greece

13 Aug
Lemnos Island: Gomati bay

After I returned from Thassos Island, I rested in Batix Multiplex Camping in Kavala for one day. For dinner, I had delicious mussels saganaki with tomato sauce and feta cheese. Besides, I had my pitch surrounded by a green fence, sunbeds, pristine warm water, and straw umbrellas at choice. I enjoyed the campground but I […]