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Kavala- Let’s have a coffee

Kavala- Let’s have a coffee

Kavala, Greece, December 2011 Diesen Artikel auf Deutsch lesen When we cross the border to Greece I am excited. It has been nearly five years since I have travelled the birth country of Zeus, Odysseus, Socrates and Homer the last time. We take the first exit on the freeway to […]

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People From Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki, Greece, December 2011 When St. Paul visited this city around 52 A.D and wrote what is presumably the first book of the new testament (First Epistle to the Thessalonians) he would have never imagined what it would turned out to be. Today this city of over 2,300 years of history of intense […]

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The Other Gentlemen with the Frog The waitress The Friendly Butcher The Gentlemen with the Frog A beer would be nice La Rotunda Circus People
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Skopje – a City Portrait

Skopje, Macedonia, November 2011 Leer en Español  I heard the chants that came from the Minaret sometime around noon. I couldn’t make up for the words but I knew it was an open invitation to pray inside the Mosque. The chants created a very interesting mood while I was walking […]

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TITO in Macedonia TITO in Macedonia 2 frid2nddic wed2ndnov Orthodox Church in Skopje Alexander the Great in Skopje
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Delicious Macedonia

Delicious Macedonia

Macedonia (FYROM), November 2011 Diesen Artikel auf Deutsch lesen Our travel through Macedonia has been a very social one. There were only three nights that we have not spent with our very nice hosts from www.couchsurfing.org. With Sanja we stayed in Skopje our first two nights, with Goran in Veles […]

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Couchsurfing: Surfers are shared here

Couchsurfing: Surfers are shared here

Niš, Serbia, November 2011 Diesen Artikel auf Deutsch lesen I jump up smiling from my chair when I read the E-mail. “Miloš has accepted us for tomorrow or Saturday!” I am very happy to have found a last-minute-host in Niš. I show his profile to Roberto. “He seems really nice […]

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Gradovi Utočišta: timeless power

Gradovi Utočišta: timeless power

Belgrade, Serbia 18th November Leer en Español The concert was supposed to start at 7:00 pm. The concert started 45 minutes later. Was I enrraged? Not by a bit. We met the accordionist just outside the Belgrade Public Library where the concert was going to be held. “The rest of […]

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Bigz

Bigz

Belgrade, Serbia, November 2011 Diesen Artikel auf Deutsch lesen We are used to sleep with the sunset because without daylight there is not a lot to do in the tent. This day we stay awake half the night. At 11 pm we leave the house. We, that is Jordan, our […]

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BATINA: a photo essay of a town in reconstruction.

Batina, Croacia, November 2011 Leer en Español On our way to Serbia, we stopped for 6 days in the border town of Batina, Croatia. This town was fully devastated by the Yugoslav wars back in the 90’s. Now it’s a town with lust for life and willing to rise the […]

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Yosef and Phillip Construction Technique Batina Batinas House 2 Ruins in Batina Batina The Flower Man in Batina
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