Skopje

It was now about lunch time and we decided to go in search of food. It worries me how much of our time is spent looking for food, and doing mundane orientation type acts. Our travel info is not always correct, like our hostel which was called cramped and is not, and maps from the station which there were not. We headed out following directions to the "Turkish" side of town. There is an old city and a new city and the river Vardar runs through Skopje separating the two. We crossed the river on one of the many bridges and came to an area where most of the streets are cobbled, and covered in that dreadful black ice. We peeked into several clothes shops and looked at coat prices which were between $50 -$200.
We were pleasantly surprised by the number of shops and modern facilities in a very logically planned city. The ease with which we found our hostel for example left us asking each other, where is the catch.