Hotel Baci Pristina
Str. Mother Teresa Pristina, Serbia and Montenegro
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A surreal school reunion
... we approached Pristina, road signs suggested otherwise: although all signs were bilingual, in Serbian and Albanian, the Serbian name was almost always scrubbed out with a line of thick black spray paint. A few of the Serbian signs were even sprayed with bullet holes. This once ethnically mixed region had been branded clearly as Albanian only, and all but a stubborn minority of Serbs in the north and Bosniaks in the west had left or been forcibly evicted by ethnic Albanian ...
Vendettas, She-Males, and a Very Strange Dowry
Alright, quick question. What's the first thing that pops into your head when you hear the word "Albania"? Probably something along the lines of "huh???," "isn't that, like, Russia or something", or "don't know but I heard they're a bunch of crazy motherf$#$@rs." I can't say I knew a whole hell of a lot about Albania myself except for a few unflattering tidbits I picked up along the way. For instance, a friend of mine that spent a year in a refugee camp trying ...
Brought to you by Lipitor
... and herb cured fat that looks and feels a bit like a sort of clear, rubbery jello. Alright, I'll admit that sounds kinda gross and I wish I could come up with a more palatable sounding description but I can't so that'll have to do. Or maybe "lard" was how they translated some kind of fatty pork belly/bacon type thing. The menu listed lard, lard with garlic and even one called "special beauty secret lard" which sounded more like some sort of barnyard Oil of ...
Wild Wild West
Pristina. Kosovo. The Wild West, as I have heard it described. Basically the 51st state of the US, a proxy state that gives them a foothold in a historically unstable region. Kosovar people are generally ethnically Albanian. They are wonderful people, extremely welcoming and helpful, even when they have no idea what you are talking about.
So I arrived at about 4 in the morning after an overnight bus on the most dilapidated, run down ******* of an automobile that I have seen. ...
Kosovan Town Fair
... are unemployed.
We stepped inside for a quick browse around and managed to chat to some local students. The conversation was very interesting, though I must admit I felt an almost caginess from the group we were talking to. I imagine that tourism in Kosovo is still a very new thing, so perhaps people aren’t used to it. We did get some interesting info out of them, in particular the reasons why there are so many American references around ...


