To be part
of the second Balkan food cookbook together with my great friend Jovan Radomir
is a true adventure and great fun indeed and especially the travels we do
together for research reasons.
This
project is something that we have talked about for several years and am I’m
very happy that we did decide to move forward on this to show the world what
the Balkans are when it comes to food, pleasure, lifestyle and not least the
wines.
Travelling
in the Balkan region is like going home and remembering my childhood with all
the smells, busy street life and the food all from big restaurants to the
street food and let me tell you that we are trying everything and we both
enjoyed it very much.
This time
we have spend seven days in Macedonia travelling around the country all
organized be Toni C a Macedonian who lives in Sweden and without him this trip
would never happened, thank you my friend for your effort and companionship.
I can not
write this without mentioning Sasha out driver all thru this trip and who I now
can call my friend and fantastic guide in almost anything (If you ever need a
driver here let me know and I will set you up with him)
Let’s start
with the Macedonians, everybody that we met here and generous, friendly and
very positive in the daily life and all ethnics live side by side to make
things work.
This is an
amazing country with so many great things to se and visit and it shows that the
cradle of European civilisations started here, the city of Ohrid should never be missed and I will for
sure go there with my kids for educational reasons
The monasteries
are so old that you can not understand and to see that the Italian renaissance
started here some 200 years before Italy is hard to understand but
very exiting.
There are
so many fantastic places to visit and a history lesson about us all.
Macedonia should be on everybody’s not to
miss list in life, and not to mentioning the story and life of Alexander the
Great but I leave this for some other time