As a reminder of our itinerary, we spent a day in Skopje, Macedonia, and then we took a little detour to Prizren, Kosovo. (See prior posts....

Skopje, like so many other large cities in the Balkans, has a large fortress that dominates the high point of the city. The first iteration...

Some young Germans staying at the same hotel as we were in Skopje suggested that we abandon the Vegas-like city center for a drive up the c...

I grew up thinking of Macedonia as a region of the ancient world that was almost synonymous with Greece, and most of my exposure to i...