Tag Archives: Macedonia
Balkans Tour 2017 – Statues of Skopje
Like that well known sticky brown yeast spread, you will either love or hate Skopje. There is no denying that a visit is a memorable experience. There are more statues there than the Louvre, British Museum & Uffizi put together! Here are a few examples.
Balkans Tour 2017 – The Environs of Skopje
You may have gathered that I do not like the ‘new’ Skopje, the €500million vanity project that looks like it was dreamt up by Liberace on acid. Thankfully we arrived armed with a couple of decent things to take in if, as was indeed the case, we wanted to escape the tackiness for a while. […]
Skopje Then & Now
The new Skopje is not my cup of tea…….. Imagine having hundreds of millions of euros to invest in improving the infrastructure of your city. You might think about a new train/bus station, improved roads, the introduction of a tram system perhaps. Imagine instead employing Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Liberace and Kim Kardashian and asking them to […]
