Update

I am in my hotel room in Basel and have some time to write this update. The weekend was great - the second wedding of Jasmina and Jack was quite a cool experience - I took off Friday as we had to be at the Airport at 12. We used the time waiting at the gate to make some phone calls to some of the flats we have found on immobilienscout24 - and got an appointment for Monday night for our future flat (we didn't know at the time of course). The plane was pretty much delayed half an hour - as expected with Alitalia but other than that no complaints. In Milan we met Alba and flew to Skopje together. There we got passport-checked and could enter the country more or less quickly (Alba and I more, Estelle less) and picked up the luggage of Peter, which Alitalia conveniently lost on their way. We got picked up by a taxi driver, who brought us to the car, let us in, switched on his CD-player with some techno music and we left. It reminded me of a couple of years ago in Hungary when everybody was listening to this kind of music and in the next hours I hinted to the driver that I want that music - but he didn't get it so I didn't get it ...
We arrived late around 8 and went for some food, which was very much to my liking. They have a cucumber + tomato + cheese salad that is amazing. I had a kind of cordon bleu in the form of a moon. But first we met Blanca and Maria in their winter outfits, Jack, the sister and Jasmina - all wearing their winter outfits. According to some rumours there was summer only 2 days before than it started to rain and got cold. Yeah, right! After dinner I went to a club with the Spanish group and had a beer called Skopska.
The next day we woke up to an absolutely dream scenery - the sun was shining!!! We went on a city tour, met Jack and his dad on the way to the hill and I was back in time to shave, have a giant pizza and get ready for the party. The party was fantastic, starting in Jasminas place in the city and continuing in a monastery 30 km away from Ohrid city - next to the lake and the Albanian border. Great food, great drinks (rakja), great dancing, etc. a perfect wedding party basically.
Sunday we went back home - first by car to Skopje, then by plane to Milan, then a quick race through the controls so we would not miss our connection to Frankfurt.

All in all the weekend was totally worth it - even if the travel was quite heavy. Click on the picture below to access all pics - including similar stupid ones inspired by a very nice alcoholic drink called rakja ...