Today we headed towards the Macedonian town of Ohrid situated on a lake of the same name. As it turned out the route we chose followed a series of narrow country roads through active farming areas. There may have been a more major road to our destination but it would have required us backtracking almost all the way to Tirana.

It proved to be an interesting drive. For most of the way the road was in reasonable condition though with lots of wires and water pipes over head which kept us on our toes as we did not want to be responsible for pulling down someones water supply. The corn harvest was underway and people were out in the fields cutting the corn stalks down, pulling the corn cobs off by hand and then stacking the stalks into bundles. Not much evidence of mechanization of the farming process.

The border crossing into Macedonia was another easy affair, though the Macedonian officer was on the ball enough to check that our European Green insurance card stipulated coverage in FYROM (thats what Macedonia is officially called), the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia. That name is courtesy of the Greeks who (one assumes) feared that if someone else was called Macedonia then Greeks could no longer lay claim to Alexander the Great.

A few miles inside Macedonia we turned down a very narrow country road and crept into the lake side village of Struga and found Camping Rino just as our map had predicted. About 15 km from Ohrid.

The camping area is small and the entrance way was a squeeze for our tall truck but a bit of careful driving and some brushing of trees and we were parked securely in the lot with two other campers (one German and one Swiss). Electricity, water, toilets, wifi, a heated cafe what more could one ask.

One of the really nice touches about the place was free expresso coffee each morning delivered to the door of the camper.