Kosovo
-
I have ZERO memory of writing this, but I found this in my drafts from 2023, and it might be of use to someone, so enjoy – 2025 Heather It’s been a while since I’ve been able to visit about anywhere off the beaten path – there isn’t much in Prague or Amsterdam that hasn’t…
-

I wrote 90% of this while I was in Kosovo, but procrastinated in actually posting it. I’ve finished it up months after that trip finished – enjoy! As a Brit, I have 99 problems but a bear ain’t one. Britain has been completely and utterly bear-less since the Middle Ages – my ancestors made sure…
-

Context The Museum for Former Political Prisoners in Prishtina is quite unique in Kosovo. Other Eastern European countries, like the Czech Republic, Poland and (what used to be) East Germany, are more than happy to use their authoritarian past to bring in tourists. Souvenir shops sell kitschy ushankas. Museums have entire galleries of communist statues.…
