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2018.10.23 \u2013 Ohrid -Skopje (Macedonia) \u2013 Today, we tried a different restaurant as part of our complimentary breakfast. Later, we took a short taxi ride to the bus station which was slightly more than 2kms away. The new and modern bus station was only three months old. The bus ride to Skopje provided some stunning mountain views. Along the way, we detected some cigarette smoke on-board the bus. In an attempt to identify the smoker, I walked the bus aisle a few times but I could not locate the source of the smoke. The same situation repeated itself a bit later. Finally, we discovered that the bus driver was the actual smoker. Jenny politely requested that he stopped smoking \u2013 and suggested that he obeyed the sign above his driver\u2019s seat. We realized that we were not the only ones annoyed by the cigarette smoke. A gentleman passenger seated in front of us, living in British Colombia, started to exchange with Jenny while I had a similar exchange with a lady seated behind us, living in the USA. Everyone was pleased that the bus remained smoke free for the rest of our journey to Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. We walked the short distance from the bus station to our hotel. In the early evening, we walked through the town center to reach a restaurant we had identified in TripAdvisor. As we walked along the river, we were pleasantly surprised by the nice evening views of the illuminated buildings, statues and fountains, etc When we arrived at the restaurant, Jenny quickly detected cigarette smoke inside the premises. When Jenny asked whether everyone was allowed to smoke inside the restaurant, the owner was quick to reply \u201cYes \u2013 everyone can smoke inside\u201d. We encountered the same situation at the restaurant across the street. We resigned ourselves to eat our evening meal on the deserted (and cool) outside patio \u2013 while all the smokers were inside in the warmth of the restaurant. We realized that we took for granted all of the non-smoking environment in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n
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