Elsien's Traveblogue

Armchair Travel - Kosova

Looking out over a rain-soaked Harlow. One of the advantages of living on the tenth floor is that I have stunning views – and sounds: you should hear the wind howling around the Tower sometimes!

I don't like this period before Christmas much. I like the Christmassy looks of the shops and the streets, but they start far too early for my liking. I don't like the crowds out to do their Christmas shopping, the queues everywhere, the traffic jams and least of all, the foul weather.
I do armchair travel. I listen to Radio 4 and wistfully think that I was there only last year.

Thinking about Kosova at the moment. They are trying to become independent – news please, Emma!, which was already on the cards when I was there last year. See pictures. As I wrote in my blog and e-mails at the time, Prystyna is a real hole, but it has something. The country itself could be pretty, but just looks neglected and wartorn (desolate and derelict buildings – would you rebuild if you thought someone would come and take it off you again at any moment now?). Neighbouring Macedonia is completely different – as soon as you cross the border, people are working in the fields, fishing in the streams, there are fruit trees in bloom or in fruit, the houses are better-kept. Would love to go for a repeat visit, and spend more time in Macedonia – I only travelled through and waited for my connecting train in Skopje's smoke-filled trainstation (heavy smokers of very smelly cigarettes, not fire).

Hoping that there are going to be some job opportunities in Brussels – will keep you up to date. Feel upset that my life isn't more interesting at the moment.

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