http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/gallery/0000qfb5.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/gallery/0000qfb5 Annotated photographs from my Jan-Feb 2006 trip to Kosovo (and Macedonia) http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000bc269.xml View down the twisty mountain track (the main road to Macedonia from Kosovo was closed by a landslide so we tried driving over the top of the mountains; stupid idea) http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000az2zs.xml 5cd7b01abf1515b490f301a6a8925263 image/jpeg 2272 1704 786049 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000az2zs Another view down the twisty mountain track http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b0ehb.xml 5955a01268fcda935c1bd38001e266ff image/jpeg 2272 1704 748816 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b0ehb A small memorial of the 2001 conflict on the Macedonia/Kosovo border (on the way back into Kosovo we came by a more sensible route) http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b16p5.xml eb0794e8371c97d6ea0f837b3c280fc9 image/jpeg 2272 1704 741642 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b16p5 Close-up - the light was bad for details; putting photographs on tombstones is universal in the Balkans, whether Muslim, Orthodox or Catholic http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b2t9t.xml 2686c3d7e5e84ad044cac14bc9989282 image/jpeg 417 564 54757 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b2t9t At the edge of the Kosovo plain, the mountains of Montenegro look down on us http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b3p56.xml c2f2180b6483da33e402c945ecffde1c image/jpeg 2272 1704 716730 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b3p56 View of Decani monastery in its valley http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b4wzy.xml ea32b8c4f1b456f104b512c70aba4946 image/jpeg 2272 1704 726015 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b4wzy Entrance to the monastery http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b596y.xml a3937b795eb0e86c87e182439578ced2 image/jpeg 2272 1704 776644 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b596y The monastery church http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b6yf3.xml 900512917161584383bd9b747289a139 image/jpeg 2272 1704 715295 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b6yf3 Fr Sava (the "cyber-monk") and visitor, in front of the iconostasis http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b7ckb.xml 8b12147d5effca677e5b618c846401ee image/jpeg 2272 1704 702630 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b7ckb Plaque commemorating repairs to the church funded by the Ottoman Sultan in 1883 - Fr Sava snorted, "A big plaque for a rather small repair!" http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b8ab9.xml 8c82a1a353ac8d21a9446d07ebc51207 image/jpeg 2272 1704 688006 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b8ab9 Ancient frescos (perhaps dating from the 14th century) in Decani http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b9pqe.xml 5a02de418d6b743ec531824d90212cb2 image/jpeg 2272 1704 739956 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000b9pqe Ramush Haradinaj is still there... http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000bazcw.xml 01f6ca7a19d24b4f2f992675503833d2 image/jpeg 2272 1704 696542 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000bazcw ...but Ibrahim Rugova isn't http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000bbesq.xml b0f964b13538280970e913a3c18cf5c3 image/jpeg 534 477 68364 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000bbesq The memorial to the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, built in 1953, on a slightly misty day; with my colleagues Senad Sabovic, Alex Anderson and Marijan Zumbulev http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000bc269.xml 03750fa7e4af36f6de5ede4a942512fe image/jpeg 2272 1704 727473 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000bc269 Senad and Alex try to make sense of the official explanation of what happened in 1389 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000bd93g.xml bf37f5c5a5fdc3f0a9fdfba1b145c717 image/jpeg 2272 1704 724204 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000bd93g The Slovaks, with support from the Czechs, guard the Gazimestan memorial http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000bew6y.xml ef04dd299763a11526c2b187a0f3d222 image/jpeg 434 284 19984 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000bew6y Sometimes countries can split up amicably; and sometimes not http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000bf898.xml a77250f93c52b9ca5a2c997ef6fbe786 image/jpeg 724 460 92299 http://pics.livejournal.com/nhw/pic/000bf898