When traveling through Bitola (which is in Northern Macedonia) This is one of our favourite villages.
It must be the centre of the European Apple Industry and because of the amazing Autumn we have had- there was an especially bumper harvest this year....So you can imagine we took delight in snapping our way through the town.
I wanted to create a story in this blog of Balkan Architecture....and I couldn't do it on a better day !
Soon the beauty of all these vintage buildings will disappear , but not from our eye - if we capture the Nostalgia of a by-gone era....
While taking shots of this pretty thing ! an old Lady came running up the drive of her house, which was situated next door ; One of two scenarios might unfold, she would be very cross at me being so bold / she might think I wanted to purchase the abode....
instead she wanted to invite me in for Tea !!!! oh how wonderful....but we could not communicate with one another ! however she did allow me to take her Photo, Imagine how gutted I was to find she closed her eyes at the wrong moment , still - what a story she could have relayed of her life and all the journeying that has gone on . You can see it at a glance in her amazing face.............
This is the house we want to live in if we had the resources to rejuvenate her glory..
Adjacent Farm buildings , falling into disrepair...
This could be a cottage in deepest Surrey !!!!
Onward we travelled through two more borders......to be continued.....
