ϹЕРИЛИК ИЗ ОСЕМ!!!!

That’s what we learned in Macedonia. We mastered most of the Cyrillic alphabet, and now we plan to use it as our secret code language once we get back home. For those less fortunate who aren’t familiar with this alphabet, what I said was ‘Cyrillic is awesome!!’. And so it is.
We spend six days in Skopje, with a friend of mine from my university days. Actually, we stayed with her mother, who had more space (and patience) for us and all our sh*t. Skopje is a very nice place, although we didn’t get to see too much of it, because we were too busy being fed homemade dishes and homemade liquor. I think we found our new mom!! (Sorry old moms, but in order to compete, you need to learn how to make rakija and ajvar).

...I guess I should explain - rakija is very potent liquor made from fruit, usually grapes or pears or something like that, and ajvar is a sauce/relish made from red peppers that is great with EVERYTHING...even just from the spoon.

Skopje is virtually tourist free, which is a rare treat. Gully and I would have fit right in… except that it took us ten minutes to sound out each word that we read (much to the amusement of our friends), and Gully’s propensity for taking off his shirt, which apparently isn’t as cool here as it is in Canada.

-E

Andrijana & I

Enjoying Sunday lunch in our new home

TWO kinds of home-made rakija!!

A meal fit for a king - moussaka, wine, rakija, and of course milk