BlackSeaRoamer

Sunday, 22 February 2009

Churches and flags

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Today I visited Gračanica, a Serb enclave close to Prishtina. Not much goes on on a Sunday. The market traders that line the main Prishtina-...
Sunday, 15 February 2009

Serbs and bilberry juice

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Today I was back in Mitrovica. It is a sad place. At each end of the famous bridge that divides the city between its Albanian south and main...
Sunday, 8 February 2009

Hills and rubbish

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I had a Sunday afternoon walk in the hills outside Prishtina today, at Germia. It was a fine, sunny day, almost spring-like. Ahhh, for fresh...
Sunday, 1 February 2009

Wines and labels

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Kosovo wine is returning to the UK market. According to the website of the producer, StoneCastle, its wines measure up to the best of France...
Saturday, 24 January 2009

Mud, dust and shit

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It's been raining in Prishtina, and as always, the streets are slopping with mud. When it's dry, the dust and grit blows around, get...
Saturday, 17 January 2009

Serb enclaves

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Yesterday I went to Mitrovica. It was grim. After the recent troubles (a Serb youth stabbed, a café bombed, firemen attacked, a journalist b...
Sunday, 11 January 2009

Prishtina in sunshine

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It is a cold, clear day in Prishtina, the bright sunshine sparkling on the snow. Young men are out on Mother Theresa Boulevard with shovels,...
Saturday, 10 January 2009

Snow

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I prefer Prishtina in the snow. For once, neither dusty nor muddy, even the stink of the nearby power stations seems somehow to have been sm...
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