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Tallinn, 19 October 2003

European summer: the Balkans, Albanian roads, kitten from Ohrid and Auschwitz

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is probably the most well known sight of Macedonia.





On our last night in Ohrid, while we were walking through the lake side park, Maris heard meowing. It was a little kitten, we thought the mother might still be around, since a big cat was walking around, so we left it for a while and decided to check on it a little later.

When we returned the kitten was still there, we noticed that her eyes were closed, actually stuck. This indicated to us that she had most likely been abandoned a long time ago and that she would have no chance to survive whatsoever. She was also underfed and had a bloody nose.

So we picked the kitten up and took her to our room. We cleaned her eyes. It was wonderful to see 2 little blue eyes appear and touching to see her reaction when we made the first drop of milk go into her mouth. We got a carton box from a shop and sacrificed a T-shirt to serve as her bed. She meowed at regular intervals during the night waking us up.

We postponed our departure from Ohrid and instead took her to a vet, the vet told us she was most likely a she, gave us a "cat-passport" and vaccinated her against rabies. "Now she can travel", said the vet, "and cats don't need a Shengen visa!" (A Shengen visa, is a visa that is valid for most of western Europe).

She was going to travel with us to Estonia and maybe to Holland in the hope of finding an adoption family for her since it would be impossible to take her with us to South America.

We named her Dulcia.

Driving back to Pirot we had to drive through Presevo and Bajanovac, places which have been listed by most western embassies as areas to NOT travel through. Unfortunately the road goes through this area and there is no practical way around it. Nothing happened however but we did hear later that there had been shooting in the area between Albanian insurgents and Serbian security forces.

We spent ...

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