Walk to the cross.

First thing today, i shave, sick of that beard.(yea i know, who cares...) I have my baby skin again :) Then though yesterday i decided to go there this morning, I head of for the cross at about 2pm. I take a couple shots on the way, walk trough some small streets of Skopje and find the end of the road coming down from the cross. I start my walk up. it will be a nice but o so long walk up. After 2 and something hours i arrive at the red cross located at the end of the public part of the asphalt road. Here there is a big parking and restaurant for the lazy and the rest of th road is restricted to bikers, walkers and official cars.
I am walking and figuring i will be there soon but it takes me at least one more hour. Damn cross always seems to be so close but it never gets closer :) It is so big (said to be 80 meters but even when i got there i could not believe that) that it seems you are right there all the time.
As i make it to the top, after a beautiful view over a green, orange and red autumn forest, it is already past 6pm. The sun is setting on the mountains, a slight wind is blowing and i am to tired and cold to walk back down. I can see the workers working on the mobile phone antenna and thinking it might be Natasas friend from para gliding, i walk in their direction. It turns out not to be him but i still salute them, leave them to their job and walk down. After passing a military base and taking a couple shortcuts trough the woods, i make it back on the road just in time to be picked up by the workers driving down!

I make it back to the city in time for tonights short film session at the film festival but Aurelie is sick and staying home tonight so i give up on it, don't feel like going to the movies alone. So i walk back, and guess who is honking at the red light. Well i don't know either, until i get closer and can see through the windows of a black Mercedes, the dudes who brought me to Skopje the first time! Small world once again...
I make it to Aurelie place, we cook a nice hot dish of pasta with mushrooms, a pity they don't taste that much and are just releasing a lot of water... Hihi and a friend of hers join us for couple hours and some nice chats. Se says her nose is getting badder again, i know it is in her head that it is getting badder, not for real and joke “it is because you didn't see me in too long time” It sure has been a long time since the last party.