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Newest Review: ... she seemed obsessed with offloading as many tomatoes as you could imagine on to us. Despite Ohrid's modest size, it is definitely worth hanging around the area a while. Macedonia (or FYROM if you don't want to annoy their nationalistic neighbours the Greeks!) is cheap, so you needn't worry about running up huge bills (although services are notoriously expensive for locals -electricty etc)- both food and accomodation is nicely priced, internet as well. Having been part of various empires over the years and ruled by all of its neighbours at some time or another, Ohrid has plenty of remnants of the past with lots of archaelogical site with t... more

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Ohrid: Macedonia's prettiest town (553 words)
by - written on 21/04/09 (Very useful, 38 readings)
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Having spent the previous two nights roughing it in a sleeping bag under the stars in the Mavrovo National Park and on the shores of Lake Ohrid at Struga and having had the most patiently slow of lifts down from near Gostivar to Ohrid from an exceptionally heavy trek - a bit of luxury was called for. That was found in Ohrid with some bottles of beer which helped me to work out whether I preferred Zlatan Drab or Skopsko (the two most common brands). On arrival we hunted out a place to stay, numerous houses had the notorious balkan "sobe" (rooms) sign (written in cyrillic of course), the key was finding someone actually in. Eventually a ... Read the complete review