St Noam’s Monastery, Springs, and Bay of Bones

Based on another Valentina tip, we did a fantastic day trip down to the south of Lake Ohrid to check out St Noam’s Monastery.  We parked in the lot and walked into the beautiful arched entrance to the tree-lined walkway.  Off to the side of this were tons of stalls of local crafters selling their wares.  We stopped and looked […]

Vivchani Springs

One of the many outstanding recommendations from Valentina was to go out to the mountains and explore Vivchani, the natural springs there, and to eat at Via Ignatia restaurant.  She was three-for-three with those suggestions!  Vivchani was only 20 minutes by car, so we went out there three times. On our first trip there, we stopped for a coffee at […]