Wednesday, August 15, 2007

My New Favourite City

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Lisboa / Lisbon has streaked ahead of the competition after a wonderful (too-short) 5 days there. It has seemingly everything you could want...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

15 minutes - more like 2 minutes

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I've been mentioned in the main Kosovo newspaper! Here is the translation.... All together for a better city UN-HABITAT officers have...
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Monday, July 16, 2007

State of EXIT

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Now that was a festival! EXIT - 4 days of music in an old Fortress overlooking Novi Sad in northern Serbia, practically in the backyard for...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Gandhi

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"We must become the change we wish to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Vidovdan

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I have just learnt a little about June 28th, and its significance in this region particularly. Vidovdan , St Vitus' day is a religious h...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Culture Week, Kosovan Stars

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It is Culture week in Mitrovica south and last night there was a free concert in the city centre featuring a competent backing band and a ro...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Click and feel good...

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Some cool Melbourne peeps have put together this click to donate website - reminds me of the old click once a day hunger site for the world...
Friday, June 01, 2007

In this day and age?

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Can this be true? “The Serbian government is prepared to choose Kosovo over Europe”, says Sabine Freizer, Director of Crisis Group’s Europe ...
Monday, May 28, 2007

Fur Babies

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Conversation on Saturday night: Her: "So we have to send our two cats to live with a friend in Vienna regularly so that they get enough...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Eurovision Controversy!

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It has been claimed that the winning song at Eurovision was, at least partly, a copy of an Albanian song. "A striking similarity exist...
Monday, May 14, 2007

Perhaps Eurovision really can change the world?!

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The Eurovision Song Contest , that cheesy, bizarre and addictive event where European countries (plus a few hangers on) compete for musical ...
Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Back to the old school

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After years of sticking with my trusty SLR film camera, last October I went and purchased a snazzy compact digital camera. Up to a few weeks...
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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Whirlwind Holiday

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Its been a whirlwind week and half, with no less than 4 countries and 5 cities in two continents so far.... Posts will come, as will photos,...
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Getting to Meteora Greece

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So the plan for the Easter weekend was to get to Meteora, Greece. A place with amazing rock formations and even more amazing monasteries per...

Greek Orthodox Easter

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Its the biggest event on the Greek Orthodox calendar so we arranged to attend a midnight service to witness the candle lighting ceremony. Th...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Heritage gets crowded

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Last weekend I went to Thessaloniki in Greece. Quite a cool city, though it was pretty dead due to the Easter weekend.... Anyway, there is ...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Eurovision as good as independence?

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The Status of Kosovo is still somewhat up in the air, but I came across this article that shows what is REALLY important here. Its getting ...
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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Public Transport system incites violence

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There have been a few months of protests over the new public transport system in Santiago, Chile and yesterday an annual 'Day of the Yo...
Monday, April 02, 2007

Brezovica

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Brezovica is said to have the potential to be one of the best ski resorts in southeastern europe, right here in Kosovo! The spooky fog might...

Reburials

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Last week I read of the movement of killed Kosovar Albanians to be reburied in mass unmarked graves in Serbia. I felt deeply saddened for th...