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As I told you, I have an unexplicable attraction for Turkey and I visit it as often as I have the chance to. Between 6th-12th  of January I was in Izmir, due to an Erasmus Plus training course about volunteerism. What to say - it was a nice experience: I have met interesting people there with whom I want to keep in touch; I drank salep for the first time (a drink from orchid turbes flour), I saw the paper marbling procedure live, tried Turkish coffe with Turkish delight, visited Agora , and participated to the course :P. Drinking salep Tasting some Turkish coffee  Jetmir (a great architect-to-be), me (the film-maker) and Tarik (a very clever mathematician) - the best team, hehe Clock Tower in Izmir                                     Hi from the top! Me,  Gülşen  (she is a clever engineer-to-be and she will be soon in the UK, yeyyy) and Tarik :P ...

I will not write about the history of Skopje, nor about its political changes.   There is so much information on the internet about it.       Still, it’s incredible how this place was under Roman occupation, then a Byzantine commercial point, also it was the capital of the Bulgarian Imperium and then became Macedonia’s capital.   The place suffered fights, fire, earthquake, poverty.   All together they made the new Skopje – a re- born territory called ‘the capital of monuments’.   After the earthquake in 1963, more than 80% of the architecture of the city was destroyed. Since then, the Government has been building continuously.   There are many buildings under construction still and day by day many more edifices are coming to life.   There is a word circulation in Macedonia that says that every citizen in Skopje has a monument.   Each person saves money for one. But if you are a citizen of Skop...