Prizren, Serbia

... ride from Prishtina (for the horrible, horrible music they played throughout, so loud it was impossible to ignore) brought me to Prizren, a large town that was the scene of some of the most violent clashes in the 2004 disturbances. An old town with more ...

... place in. I sure as hell wasn't going to taxi it back to Prishtina again, as I got stuck with yesterday! In fact though, Prizren's old core is a fairly compact place, so an afternoon isn't too short an amount of time to get a good idea of the place. ...

... an impromptu tour of the gorge then, otherwise my whole trip out would have seemed a waste. Also during my stay in Kosovo, I visit Prizren on the way back towards Albania. It takes me so long to find the center from the bus station that I nearly regret ...

... down from the castle, we saw a hillside of burned-out houses, as razed as the ancient castle. They are former Serbian homes; Prizren was another Serb enclave centred around a medieval Orthodox church. There was no church to see as far as we could tell. We ...