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| Neil & Nicholas, soaking in the culture in Paris |
|  | ......Tugjinata pusta da ostane........ ...Bitola Baban Bitola
mene me pijan pak nosat
mene me pijan pak nosat
po Bitolskite sokaci....
...Tamu se zivot zivee,
tamu se jade i pie......
-Folk song-
STORY OF MY LIFE
Welcome to my Home page and thank you for popping in...
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Story starts, on a cold October morning in 1969.
I arrived on my parents' first wedding Aniversery :D
I grew up in Bitola, with my sisiter and a bunch of cousins, spending time at my grandmother's big house...
Fondest memories of my childhood were the times when all of the familiy, including distant relatives gathered together for important celebrations of Birthdays, Anniverseries, Graduations ....
Any excuse to have party!!!
In my early teens I developed a taste for traveling, nothing too ostentatious but the Balkans and Turkey, were enough.
I was bitten by the travel bug!!!
In 1991, I moved to England, and found that England was all I imagined and more!!!!
So I stayed, for a long time. I just fell in love with England!!!
There I met my husband Simon, and then Nicholas and Neil arrived!!
We lived in Cambridge, and I still think of Cambridge as my home town.
But then, again Bitola always had a pull on my heart.
Nowdays I divide my time between Bitola and Maastricht in The Netherlands, where we currently live.
Bitola is an electric mix of Ottoman Turkish, French Mediterranean & Old Macedonian Architecture.
Place where I go to recharge my batteries, and where everybody is Welcome!! |
In May 2006 another member of the family arrived, that was our little girl, Frosina Marija.
She is one tough, little girl!!
And as our two older boys, she is traveller from very early age!!
She started when she was 7 weeks old and just come back from 2 weeks VT World Meet in Jerusalem!
Due to Simon nature of work we lived in few places around the world, and it is exiting,but the best thing of all is when I go home to Bitola | | | Frosina Marija the youngest member of our family |
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| Some of VT firnds on trip to Jerusalem & Petra |
| | MY First VT Meet in Jerusalem Well It was Simon's dream to go to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, and when Avi (Fruitlover), posted the VT Meet in Jerusalem, I jumped at the idea, that turned to be great Adventure!!!
I didn't know what to expect, but the moment I met the intrepid VT travellers, I knew that I had met kindred spirts.
And I made great Friends!!
Gila ( gilabrand ), Martin & Zohara ( Martin_S ), Avi ( Fruitlover ) opened their homes to us, and showed us real Israeli hospitality!
Delicious Shabbat dinner at the Brand houshold
Great BBQ evening at the Sampsons
Long night chats at Avi's
THANK YOU FOR GREAT MEMORIES!!!!!
VT is definitely one great family! |
About Macedonia | | |
| beautiful Girls in Macedonian Folk Costumes |
| | Wonderfull Macedonian Folk Costumes Macedonian National Costumes has richness and magnificent handcrafted enbrodery.
This particular costume comes from the region of Mariovo, wich is in S.W Macedonia.
Usualy the Costumes like these take years to make,worn for celebrations, especialy weddings and are about 30 kg in weight! |
Gypsy Queen Esma Redzepova-Teodosievska Famous Macedonian folk singer and UNICEF Good will Ambasador Better known around the world as GYPSY QUEEN Esma Redzepova-Teodosievska comes from Shuto Orizari near Skopje (the Capital of Macedonia), the only gypsy shanty town in Europe & one of the biggest in the world. She started her carier as 15yrd old girl, singing Macedonian folks songs on Radio Skopje -Prva Programa (radio 1) She is ethnic Roma and her voice is recognised around the world. Esma Redzepova | | | Me & Esma Redzepova-Teodosievska, THE GYPSY QUEEN |
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| | MACEDONIAN NATIONAL GUARD The dress of Macedonian National Guard, is the same as the dess of
Komiti, the Macedonian Rebel Army against Ottoman ocupation, worn in the XIX century. |
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Donna_in_India Thu Nov 5, 2009 05:43 UTC
Hi Valentina - thanks for visiting my Amritsar page. More(better) hotels are popping up - a few Western brands. Sadly, even Punjab's largest mall is coming too! Amritsar is still a wonderful place. Loved the border ceremony - yes, people-watching was fun! | Anka22 Tue Nov 3, 2009 10:46 UTC
Hvala Vanja. Ja se retko ovde ukljucujem pa su mi promakla tvoja putovanja, vidim, sada si u Indiji. Pozdrav :) | mustertal Fri Oct 30, 2009 22:26 UTC
So what are the puddings like in India ? | toonsarah Sun Oct 25, 2009 20:01 UTC
HI Valentina, and thanks for the birthday greetings :-) I hope you had a good one too? |
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