Day three: Ohrid

 

Lake Ohrid is situated in western Macedonia on the border with Albania (Jebi zemlju kojoj je Albania zapad :P) It is the deepest lake in Europe (I didn’t know that until today) and, apparently, one of the oldest in the world. Iza, Igor and I drove there in an ancient car but any inconveniences were dimmed by the natural beauty of this country. On the spot, it turned out that the town (which bears the name of the lake) resembles more a Mediterranean resort than a lakeside town. For the third day in a row we were blessed with lovely weather and temperatures well into twenties. Of course we took the opportunity and went for a swim.

Ohrid was like no other lake I had ever seen: the water was crystal clear like in the Med and the waves were certainly bigger than the ones we had on Kashubian lakes.

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I cut my toe as I was trying to get out of water which resulted in there being lots of blood on land and in the water (where those little fish were killing each other to taste it) – so, well, nothing new there.

After relaxing on the shore for what must have a few hours, we first headed for the old part of town and then tried to do all the churches. I’m not even going to try and write anything about them ‘cause the pictures say it all.

 

St. Jovan Kaneo Church

Crkva Sv. Bogorodica Perivlepta

Amphitheatre

 

 

 

Once we were back down, we went to a restaurant where Iza and I shared a very good pizza frutti di mare.

The last thing we did before returning to the car was going for a walk along the promenade (which was paved with marble! (I think)).

Towards the end of this long and tiring day in Ohrid all that was left was to go back home and sleep.