“We’re buying chocolate when we can’t afford bread”, or words to that effect, apparently delivered by the Macedonian government’s opposition leader in response to the state of the country today.  He’s got a point.  As I cross a new border in for what feels like forever, I’m struck by how much of the countryside could …

Hello again!  How I’ve missed you all!  You may have wondered where on God’s green earth I’ve been and what I’ve been up to. Fear not dearest readers, for I will regale all. The reason I have not been knocking out prose with wild abandon and detailing my recent deep debauchery, is because I’ve been …