We departed Pristina around 1:30pm on Friday, November 2nd in order to drop Ramoosh off at the kennel and make it to the airport in time for our flight to Vienna. From Vienna we ambled through the ter...Continue Reading

After our Saturday adventure in the Rugova Mountains, E and I didn’t slow down. Within fifteen minutes of our arrival home we had taken the dog out, showered, and made decent attempts at looking pre...Continue Reading

Two weekends ago, E & I had the opportunity to join Stephen and Nagham for the first night of the annual Skopje Jazz Festival. It was flamenco night, and while both the opening act and the headliner w...Continue Reading

There was no sitting around for the Koppels this past weekend. On Saturday morning we got up early to meet Art & Marsha in front of E’s office. Equipped with the requisite chocolate croissants we he...Continue Reading

It snowed here in Pristina last night. As E and I walked down the street towards the Phoenix Bar to watch the Rugby World Cup Final, the power went out with it’s typical “pop.” In the near darkn...Continue Reading

J’s SIPA classmate Steve K recently arrived in Pristina to visit with Steve F., another SIPA classmate who also works for UNMIK. It was our duty to show Steve K the sites - a responsibility we took ...Continue Reading

Two weekends ago, E and I went to a party at Zeynep and Ufuk’s house in Dragodan (a neighborhood in Pristina). Since the evening turned into a riddle fest, we found ourselves leaving there very late...Continue Reading

Did you know that somewhere between 5-10% of Kosovar Albanians are Catholic while the remainder of the region is comprised of approximately 90% Albanian Muslims and 5% Serbian Orthodox Christians? Now...Continue Reading

After arriving in Pristina on September 1st,  I spent a day catching up on some long overdue sleep. E took me on a walking tour of town, but other than that we just lazed around our apartment in Down...Continue Reading

I returned from Cofradia late in the evening on the 27th of August. I had three and a half days to pack up our apartment - keeping only what possessions would fit into a 5′x5′x8′ storage unit in...Continue Reading