Macedonia Miscellaneous

[liburni]

here is a beautiful shot of SKopje:


And another one...
This guy better fix his roof or.....



Rainbow over skopje:

[GreatMakedon]

well done liburni!

did u take those pics?

[dewrob]

The Central City Park



Nice night shot of the fortres and the river bank



A car accident

[dejan]

Awesome pictures guys

[dewrob]

Some beautiful winter shots from Ohrid I've found. Ignore the tourists on them

[MIMICA]

http://static.flickr.com/45/141311057_f96c87365c_b.jpg

[dejan]

Some more

Skopje's park


Skopje's rail way station with someone jumping lol


Part of Skopje, south west i think


Lake Prespa...i think


Church in Eastern Macedonia


Kale


Church in Struga


Main square in Skopje looking towards telecommunications building


Somewhere


Matka gorge near Skopje

[dewrob]

wow great selection Dejan, that last Matka pricture is one of the nicest I've seen from there.... here is another good one from Matka I've found

[singo]

Originally Posted by dejan

Church in Eastern Macedonia

That's St. Joakim Osogovski (Kriva Palanka)

[dejan]

I know Singo How can anyone not know that:p

[singo]

Excellent photos dejan

[MKballer]

hey hows it going guys im new to these forums and durob and mimca(for example) i read your guys last posts in the other thread and im really excited about all the investing in skopje. me and my father are seriously thinking about investing somewhere in skopje, but we have no clue what to invest in or build. so djurob, can you please tell me what skopje needs because i know you live there.

BTW i remember seeing a post about the old skopje theater that was knocked down in the earthquake being rebuilt like it originally was...is that going to happen anytime soon? i would love to know because i would really like to see it and i think it will bring skopje a much-needed facelift...(it reminds me of buildings throughout central europe=nice countries)

thanks

[dewrob]

Originally Posted by MKballer

hey hows it going guys im new to these forums and durob and mimca(for example) i read your guys last posts in the other thread and im really excited about all the investing in skopje. me and my father are seriously thinking about investing somewhere in skopje, but we have no clue what to invest in or build. so djurob, can you please tell me what skopje needs because i know you live there.
BTW i remember seeing a post about the old skopje theater that was knocked down in the earthquake being rebuilt like it originally was...is that going to happen anytime soon? i would love to know because i would really like to see it and i think it will bring skopje a much-needed facelift...(it reminds me of buildings throughout central europe=nice countries)
thanks

hello MKballer and welcome to the forums.
It really depends on the ammount of money that you are willing to invest in. I guess the most "risk free" investmen would be residentil objects as there is demand in Skopje. However, this year the prices of square meter have been stagnant and they might even go down a bit for the first time since the independance due to the large number of new appartments on the market.
Other "good" investments in my opinion would be touristic/service fascilities (in particular hotels, bars, restaurants).... Skopje has lack of both high profile hotels and low cost hotels/hostels. Even though it is not a touristic destinations the statistics say that the number of visitors (especially foreign) visiting the city is increasing from year to year. With the further EU integration, the introduction of low cost carriers (Wizz air is expected to fly from September) the number of foreigners is likely to increase more.
As for bars, restaurants, clubs etc.... I think there is always more space in Skopje for such investments... However compatition is tuff, it's not like 15 years ago, you can't pull off a mediocre joint, it has to be something nice, something with identity, with good quality services. The recently reconstructed pedestrian zones of Skopje are flocked with new joints opening up every day.
Of course there are lots of other areas to invest in Skopje it would help out if U tell me a preliminary ammount of money that Ur willing to invest and perhaps some other details. U can always PM me if U are uncomfortable in talking about it in public.
Also maybe U were thinking on investing into a business in Skopje. I could also give you some opinions about which businesses are good for Skopje.

MAJOR obstacle that U could be facing in Skopje is the land ownership issue(Katastar in Macedonian). That thing is complete mess, there are many missing and overlaping documents, the services are slow and sluggish. There are currently projects for reforming and digitalizing this sector which should be finished by 2009, but till then in many areas especially in the center U could face land ownership problems. The unfinished denationalization process furthermore complicates this with disputed ownership over some pieces of land (usually attractive parcels) and there are some pending cases concerning this in the Macedonian courts.... When U add our sluggish judiciary system to all this U get the big picture...

Of course I don't say it's all like this, but I think it would be fair to be objective and point out the good and bad sides at the same time....

So if U got more questions mate, shoot and I will tell U more... either here or over PM....

[Christos7]

Very nice pics!


Let me ask you guys something, does this sign say Skopje? http://i3.tinypic.com/xpa5ax.jpg

Is the C pernounced an S (in English), the ΚΟΠ is the same as in Greek (I assume) and the J we don't have but it makes like a "ya" in Slavic right? And then the E is an e?

CΚΟΠJE = SKOPJE?

[Islom]

You got it, buddy

[dewrob]

Originally Posted by Christos7

Very nice pics!


Let me ask you guys something, does this sign say Skopje? http://i3.tinypic.com/xpa5ax.jpg

Is the C pernounced an S (in English), the ΚΟΠ is the same as in Greek (I assume) and the J we don't have but it makes like a "ya" in Slavic right? And then the E is an e?

CΚΟΠJE = SKOPJE?

yeap Christos U got it mate... can U read cyrilic with ease? I have no problems with reading Greek... Not that I understand a word (well just malaka, file, karekla, trapeza..... and a couple more ) but more or less I can pronounce the words right from reading them....

[dejan]

Skopje


Skopje, i believe someone from the forum lives near by?


Outside Skopje's saem




Along some road

[dejan]

Here are other photos people...this thread has been quite inactive hehe

Krusevo's monument to an uprising


And inside


St. Naum Monastery springs lake Ohrid


Skopje


Ohrid


Outside of Skopje's bus station


Veles - central Macedonia

[MKballer]

agreed...inactive for a while but its ok...hey djurob you got any new news for us....ive been busy this past week w/ school and parties haha...macedonian parties are so great over here...anways are there any other active skopje threads?

take it easy guys/gals

[MKballer]

one thing of some great importance in skopje is the parliament building...it is downright ugly. what are they going to do with it? build a new one? give the existing one a facelift? all i know is everytime i go to skopje over the summer and look at that building i get a bad feeling in my stomach. this is not only important for the look of skopje, but it's important for the look of the MK gov't....if they had a nicer parliament building people would think higher of them lol...any news on this djurob/anybody else?