Sunday, September 07, 2008

Macedonia is great and Sarah Palin is frightening

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Macedonia is our favorite.  It beats the other Balkan countries we have visited on all the important points -  friendly people (mostly) , wine,  beer, food, weather, swimming and price

Skopje is a wonderful city with a great river,  lots of bars and a proper old Ottoman Quarter.
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Lake Ohrid is beautiful with some lovely beaches and great swimming.   Amazingly given its size its spring fed.

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Why is it that the hassle you get from taxi drivers is inversely proportional to you need to take a taxi?

Got to get this off my chest - 

We seem to have been in a lot of places with CNN watching the developing US election.  Just as you feel that if McCain might not be a complete disaster he picks Sarah Palin as a running mate.   A woman who believes in creation and intelligent design and supports both being taught in public schools as if they were fact.   According to her global warming has nothing to do with human activity and she supports drilling, fishing and forestry across the whole of Alaska.   In her eyes anything that happens to her is a  'gift of god'.   It is quite possible that she could become President -   a President who dismisses all scientific knowledge and believes that her Christian God has a plan especially for her - this  would be a disaster  

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Drying chillies and washing

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Only read this after we had wandered into Albania
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