They like Japan
[August, 2011] This is a village called Kratovo in Macedonia. Here the guide and the interpreter were very friendly to me. When the guide found that I was a Japanese, he gave me an extra brochure…
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Stay overnight in a monastery
[August, 2011] I stayed in a hotel which was a monastery in Italy, but this time we stayed in a monastery itself, St.Joakim Osogovski in Macedonia.I was prepared myself for a very simple basic room…
The first monastery
[August, 2011] We visited a lot of churches and monasteries in this Ancient Macedonia tour we joined. This St.Joakim Osogovski is the first monastery we visited and situated in a mountain in Macedonia near the border…
Changing of the guards
[August, 2011] This is the ceremony of changing of the guards in Sofia, Bulgaria. They are protecting the Presidency. According to our guide, the president is a kind of symbol. She said ‘ I don’t think…
Icon Worship
[August, 2011] Aleksandur Nevski Church is the largest church in Sofia, Bulgaria. It took 30 years to build from 1882. It can contain 5000 people, apparently. Our guide said that Bulgarian people are not so religious,…
Sophia, towering into the sky
[August, 2011] This is the statue of Sophia in Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria. According to my guide book, there used to be a statue of Lenin here, but removed in 1989. Now Sophia is…
The road work is still on in Sofia
[August, 2011] We joined a tour which visits ancient Macedonia. The first place was Sofia in Bulgaria. The same metro construction work which I saw three years before when I visited there first time was…
At Le Cornelle zoo
[August, 2011] I went to a zoo called Le Cornelle near Bergamo in Italy. This zoo is famous with white tiger. What these children were watching was not white, but a brown tiger, which was…
How would you spell whisky?
[July, 2011] Because we cannot take liquid on board, I had to buy Irish whisky at the airport.These are them.I noticed that in Ireland they use the spelling of 'whiskey' with e in it.I had…
