Literatura is a rather lovely bookshop which also happens to have a cafe at the back which looked to be agreeable. It’s a pleasant enough space and I like being surrounded by books and I could tell myself that this was cultural immersion. It’s part of a small chain of bookshops and it looked relatively busy when I was there, although the cafe element was quieter.
The menu was entirely in Macedonian so I was, once again, very grateful to Google Translate to assist me. Back in the time when this country was part of Yugoslavia, they primarily spoke Macedonian in this area, although the country’s main language was Serbo-Croat. I decided against purchasing a book in Macedonian though, it’s taking me long enough to be able to read anything in Polish and let alone a language written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
Annoyingly the power outlets in the cafe didn’t work, although I bravely coped without that. The coffee was hot, tasted like coffee and that’s going to be the limit of my professional commentary on the matter, it was also agreeably priced at the equivalent of around £1.75. All rather lovely.