The spring is coming to Skopje. By and by, people are peeling of the layers of sweaters. Every second day or so during February, the sunlight displays Skopje in all its might, preparing everyone for the summer heat to come in only a few months. It is an old town, for sure. It has seen many people and cultures come and go. Since centuries ago, the city has growing around the bends of the Vardar River, which flows through a large part of Macedonia. Generations of people have seen empires come and go, as well as natural disasters that have laid the city in ruins. Still today one can see the traces left on purpose from the earthquake that struck the city in 1963. To do the old saying right,