Day 19: Skopje to Kyustendil

This was what increasingly seems like a common balkan day: climbing all morning out of the capital of one country to a mountain top border crossing and then plunging down to a town in the next country. The Macedonian countryside is alternately pretty or post-apocalyptic with packs of dogs roaming open rubbish dumps and fly tipping everywhere.

In Kyustendil, a random town on the way to Sofia, conversation was unfortunately somewhat limited by the language barrier.