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Macedonia
The Balkans for Armchair Travellers. The Best Books on the Region in English
While recently travellers are more and more obsessed with literary trips - popular, following The DaVinci Code, or more sophisticated, remaking Byron's journey around Europe, - the Balkans stood away from this trend.
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Epicure
Macedonia
Restaurant “Yugoslavia” to Open in Macedonia’s Capital
October 2009 | In the latest move marked by nostalgia for the socialist past, a new restaurant named “Yugoslavia” will soon open its doors in Skopje. Full Story
News
Albania
ЕU May Reinstate Visas for Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia
23 October 2010 | Officials from Sweden, Germany and Belgium expressed worries with the growing number of asylum-seekers from the Balkans and may lobby in the EU to reconsider the removal the visa-free travel for citizens of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, Full Story
MacedoniaMacedonia: Ohrid Festival Wraps Up
Balkans
Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia Mark Mother Teresa’s Centenary
Routes Less Travelled
Macedonia
Among Prilep's Thunder and Lightning
Treskavec, Macedonia’s most inaccessible monastery, stands in the eye of the hurricane.
“I’ll drive only as far as I can!,” the driver waves his finger around and angrily scratches his three-day stubble. The taxi is a beaten up Zastava, like most cabs in Prilep. This makes sense, considering that, on the Balkans, taxies are the default transportation means for any occasion – from the crossing of borders to conquering alpine heights. We’ve been advised to take a cab in order to get to Macedonia’s most remote and difficult-to-access monastery: Treskavec. Full Story
Tito, Teto and Some Troubled Tourism Await You in Tetovo, Macedonia
Balkans
The 12 Balkan Contenders for the New 7 Wonders
Curiosity Chest
Macedonia
Recycled Life: Bottle Collectors in Skopje, Macedonia
Like quicksand, poverty is hard to escape - the harder you fight, the worse it can get. In Skopje, some work hard scouring the city for "treasures." They are bottle collectors, spending the day in search of recyclable plastic which they can sell for a subsistence income.
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Hidden Sofia
Bulgaria
From Soviet Saviours to American Superheroes and Back: Sofia Keeps Pace with the Times
21 June 2011 | Just four days after an anonymous graffiti artist transformed the Soviet Red Army monument in the centre of Sofia, turning it into a congregation of various comic-book characters Full Story
Bulgaria
Sklada: The Space that Stores and Showcases Contemporary Design
Bulgaria
Before and After: A Tango Milonga in the Midst of Sofia
Hidden Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Go Green in Bulgaria: 23 Eco-Hotels and Guest Houses to Choose From
Bulgaria's countryside is a pristine treasure. Poor and underdeveloped, many regions, with hills and valleys, mountains and gorges, have remained untouched for decades.
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Julian Perry's Walks in Bulgaria's National Parks
Bulgaria
From Sofia to the Village of Lakatnik in an Old Locomotive
Balkan Coasts & Mountains
Macedonia: Nearly 50 Years Later, Lake Ohrid Overflows Again
Macedonia
As spring arrived and temperatures rose, increasing the water level of Lake Ohrid, many Ohrid residents recalled the dangerous water levels of the lake 50 years ago. In 1963, Ohrid Lake spilled over and flooded the old road between Ohrid and Struga. Full Story
This July, Splash Around in Four Lakes and a Dam Throughout the Balkans
Balkan Towns
An Incomparable Inertia: Skopje to Saloniki by Rail
Macedonia
Unless you take the other one, in the dead of night, the train arrives in late afternoon and by that time you just want to sit down and sleep against the window. But usually the press of people, all pushing and clamouring to board (grandmothers with glass jars and double-wrapped boxes can be surprisingly fierce) forestalls this luxury.
Meanwhile, the cleverer young guys have already jumped down into the gravel and skipped across the worn steel rails, ripping open the opposite door like a ripe orange and bounding up the narrow stair first. Full Story
The Macedonian Town of Ohrid, Where Time Stopped
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Photogalleries
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A Perfect Shot
Koprivshtitsa Fair, Bulgara. Photographs by Neva Micheva
In Homo Urbanus Europeanus, exhibited May 9-24 in front of the National Theatre in Sofia, Jean-Marc Caracci presents his photographs of people in the urban environment of European capitals.
RED&WHITE SOFIA. On the 1st of March Bulgarians say goodbye to the winter. They buy each other red&white threads to carry around until they see a stork and spring can begin. Photography by Lode Desmet
BULGARIA D'OR: The Bulgarian countryside, patinated with the noble golden dust of the autumn. Photographs by Lode Desmet
360 degrees Bulgaria, an exhibition by photographer Alexandar Ivanov, is on display at the Sea Garden in Varna until August 28. It will be shown at Plovdiv’s Central Square from Sept 5.
The exhibition Photographs of a Trip Through Bulgaria by Hungarian photographer András Balla can be seen in Sofia's Hungarian Cultural Institute, at Aksakov 16 Street, until August 22
Instant Spring in Sofia | Photographs by Lode Desmet
Off-the-season Beauty of Bulgaria's Black Sea Coast | Photographs by Adelina Iliev
Bulgaria's Northern Black Sea Coast
Photographs by Albena Shkodrova
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