While Greece has been on our bucket list forever, and we originally booked Struga, North Macedonia as a filler destination until we could re-enter the Schengen zone, life has a way of surprising you. It turns out that we LOVED Struga, but Greece is average. Within the first week of arriving in Greece, we were looking at nine weeks in […]
Ohrid was definitely bigger, busier, and pricier than Struga itself, though still so very affordable from a Canadian perspective! We decided early in our accommodation search that Ohrid was too big of a city for us to want to stay there, opting for the smaller Struga. And while we LOVED doing day trips to Ohrid, which we did many times, […]
Ohrid is the main city on, you guessed it, Lake Ohrid! It is a much bigger city than Struga with a population of a little over 50,000; three times the population of Struga. It’s also much older than Struga, which means there is sooooo much more history to see and experience here. We made many trips to Ohrid to explore […]
We have loved getting to experience new foods and cuisines on this year away. And North Macedonian has been some of our favourite food. It is such a mix of Greek, Balkan, and Turkish-inspired foods given where they are located and the 500 years they were occupied by the Ottoman Empire. There is such variety and flavour. And being inland […]