Skopje's Wild Geese

Just south of the Vardar river, in the City Park next to the football stadium live the most spoilt creatures of Skopje: the Wild Tamed Geese. These lot terrorize the whole neighborhood and people seem to be scared of them. The nasty buggers approach you with their frightful teeth, flapping of wings, head up high and their loud synthesis of a snorting blow. To please these creatures, people are sacrificing food to the already huge animals. And these are not just the left-overs of breakfast or lunch. Nooooo! And they get a lot too. The variety of their daily intake of calories consist of anything from bread ('gjevrek' or just normal 'leb') to crisps. I wouldn't be surprised to know that even bottles of coke are sacrificed to these birds.
Most interesting to this all would probably be this - The restaurant in the centre of the Geese Territories serves a speciality: Geese!

Photos of today - The No-Geese-Show

	One of the many emergency stores in town. Whatever time it is, there always seems to be one open in case you run out of 'pivo' (beer), 'vino' (wine), 'rakija' (white or yellow) or 'semki' (pumpkin seeds).
	Trifun (spelling?!@#$) is the new kid on the block in Skopje. He won the last mayor elections. The new man is enormously popular. Graffity's all over town proclaiming his premiership. This one at Franklin Roosevel Street (it's really there on the green road sign - in cyrillic) is one of the most catchy ones.
	A walk from the football stadium to the city centre along the Vardar is quite popular.
	One of the busiest bridges over the Varder is the one of Bulevar Goce Delchiev. More about Goce: He lead the uprise against the Turks a little more than 100 years ago. Not long after that, he lost his head. 10 years later, the Turks left and an end came to 500 years of Ottoman occupation. Rumour has it that till this day Goce's head has not yet been found.