Land border crossings are a novelty to my life partner. We are halfway through our 4 hour bus journey from Sofia to Skopje and this one passes smoothly and uneventfully. We arrived at Skopje early in the afternoon and hit the ground running again. North Macedonia was a part of the former Yugoslavia and a separate entity to Macedonia in Greece. It is a multicultural melting pot of Macedonians, Albanians, Serbs, Turks and Bosniaks. Skopje is its capitol.
This is a country whose past goes back to the 6th century BC. Phillip 11 of Macedon absorbed the region and created Macedonia in 356 BC. His son Alexander the Great expanded the empire all the way to modern day India to be the dominant of its time.
Central Skopje has a number of impressive monuments around Macedon square and a pretty old city. Unfortunately there Is a lack of maintenance and widespread graffiti which lends an element of unkempt scruffiness to the whole place.
