After finding the bus station 10 minutes before my 11am bus was slated to leave, I bought a ticket for 2600 dinar and found a seat next to an extremely fat but otherwise not malodorous or sweaty man. The Serbian countryside is very green, but not impressive. It wasn't until we had crossed the Macedonian/Serbian border that the outside began to pretty up as the sun set.
Eight hours after leaving Belgrade, we arrived in Skopje. I hadn't eaten since breakfast, so I bought some snacks from the convenience store situated within the station before taking a taxi to the hostel. The hostel was easy enough to find on the 3rd floor of a residential building close to the city center. A Japanese girl was checking in at the same time as myself and we made friends before going out to the old bazaar area for dinner. After a tasty meal of kebabs, we got lost on the way back until we found ourselves in the city center.
Something you quickly notice by walking through Skopje city center is the unorthodox number of statues and monuments erected there. You would be hard pressed to find a statue much more than 50 meters away from another. Some of the monuments are comically ostentatious, and so close together that you feel like you're walking down the strip in Las Vegas.
Returning to the hostel that night, I coordinated with Mec, my friend who lives here in Skopje, to meet the next morning.
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