7 & 8 August 2002 - southern Kosovo and Prishtina

My first port of call after arriving in the Balkans was in Kosovo, and the road to the capital (Priština if you're Serb, Prishtina if you're Albanian).

Taking shelter in an EU-funded bus-stop in Kosovo, just before it starts to pour with rain.

The view from the same bus-stop from a different angle.

Passing a small monastery at Lipjan, I decide to take a closer look.

The graveyard is of course filled with the heroic dead.

The Grand Hotel, once the hideout of Arkan, but now the centre of conspicuous consumption by the International Community.

Just behind the Grand Hotel, a street where Alba and Evis used to live.

The software, music and book pirates set up for another day breaching intellectual property.

Prishtina stadium, firebombed by the Albanians to make it look like a Serb war crime.

UNMIK's mission headquarters.

The UN provides telecommunications for the whole province - and as the sign says, demands that all weapons be unloaded before entry to their premises.