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Lyon Hotel Pristina

Pristina, Serbia and Montenegro

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A surreal school reunion

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... with paper and cans. On two sides of the square stood buildings for the University of Pristina which, until separatist unrest in the 1980s twisted authorities’ arm, had been a campus of the University of Belgrade. The youthful energy of the students bustling around the university seemed a peculiar contrast to the scarred landscape of the rest of the country. Seeing them joke and shout with one another – the next generation of officials, doctors, architects and ...

Vendettas, She-Males, and a Very Strange Dowry

A travel blog entry by stanfalk

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... they all said I had to be crazy. They assured me that it was dirty, chaotic, lawless, and full of people who wouldn't miss an opportunity to rob, cheat or do even worse to me at the first opportunity. But by the time I'd gotten to Macedonia I'd met a few other travelers who had been through said it was fine, the roads kinda sucked and it was hard to travel around compared to other countries in the region, but was otherwise interesting and full of friendly ...

Brought to you by Lipitor

A travel blog entry by stanfalk

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... cafes to hang out at during day, lots of good and cheap restaurants and enough nightlife to put you in an early grave. The thing that it's missing is weirdness, but I'll be in Asia soon enough and should get more than my fill there.

The only town where I've really worn out the shoe leather was Kiev which is a real world class capital city with wide boulevards, huge parks overlooking the river, all sorts of gargantuan buildings and statues and ...

Kosovan Town Fair

A travel blog entry by robdelaney

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... headed into the town. We passed plenty of shops selling cheap clothes and various fast food places before we came across yet another American reference, this time in the form of a large statue dedicated to Bill Clinton on you guessed it: Bill Clinton Blvd. We stopped for a quick Kodak moment before setting off the main pedestrianized street, where we were greeted by a small street fair. There was archery that people could have a go on; a group of kids ...

Tom gets the chop

A travel blog entry by eastin80

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... had been through a war in his lifetime. He went to this barber shop for the first time in 1985 when he was six, lived through a war when he was 19 and 20 and still goes to that same shop now that he's 26 . How things change and how they stay the same. It's mind boggling for me to try to comprehend this. I just can't and I have to be so thankful for that.

It is a great haircut by the way...



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