Almost definitive: from the 22nd of December until the 29th I will be in Kosova. After some days of planning and looking after bus services and possible hotels, I think I've created a good travel plan.
The 22nd I will leave Brussels by bus with destination Belgrade, Serbia. Normally, I will reach Belgrade the next day close to noon.
A next step will mean; looking for a bus to Kosovska Mitrovica (for the specialists; the diveded city where one half of the river shore is Serbian and the other Albanian, the two linked by a guarded bridge...) and drive another 6 hours to reach it. Approximate hour of arrival in Mitrovica: 7PM.
Then it is just a one-hour drive to Prishtina. Hopefully I can do this by bus, otherwise I have to look after a taxi. Possibly I have to go from the Serbian part of town to the Albanian to catch another bus to Prishtina. But that are problems for later...
Hopefully I can stay in the Velania area in the capital Prishtina. It would be a good 'basecamp' to start some travels in the country.
Skopje
Maybe this will be too difficult, so I have to travel via Skopje. Maybe this would be easier, because I know that there are at least two trains a day to Prishtina from here and different buses. And I know Skopje a little (see 'September 2007'). BUT, travelling to Skopje by bus is more expensive, and it means that I have to change buses in Frankfurt. By expercience, I know that changing Eurolines-buses can be a rather tricky situation.
We'll see. I will get there, of that I'm sure.
The next problem will be language...I don't speak Albanian, only a few words, and I think that two or three sessions won't be enough to learn it. I hope the knowledge of English in Pristhina -at least in Prishtina- will be good enough. I've heard that this can't be a problem.
I will stay in contact, probably one of these plans can still change.
Christophe
The 22nd I will leave Brussels by bus with destination Belgrade, Serbia. Normally, I will reach Belgrade the next day close to noon.
A next step will mean; looking for a bus to Kosovska Mitrovica (for the specialists; the diveded city where one half of the river shore is Serbian and the other Albanian, the two linked by a guarded bridge...) and drive another 6 hours to reach it. Approximate hour of arrival in Mitrovica: 7PM.
Then it is just a one-hour drive to Prishtina. Hopefully I can do this by bus, otherwise I have to look after a taxi. Possibly I have to go from the Serbian part of town to the Albanian to catch another bus to Prishtina. But that are problems for later...
Hopefully I can stay in the Velania area in the capital Prishtina. It would be a good 'basecamp' to start some travels in the country.
Skopje
Maybe this will be too difficult, so I have to travel via Skopje. Maybe this would be easier, because I know that there are at least two trains a day to Prishtina from here and different buses. And I know Skopje a little (see 'September 2007'). BUT, travelling to Skopje by bus is more expensive, and it means that I have to change buses in Frankfurt. By expercience, I know that changing Eurolines-buses can be a rather tricky situation.
We'll see. I will get there, of that I'm sure.
The next problem will be language...I don't speak Albanian, only a few words, and I think that two or three sessions won't be enough to learn it. I hope the knowledge of English in Pristhina -at least in Prishtina- will be good enough. I've heard that this can't be a problem.
I will stay in contact, probably one of these plans can still change.
Christophe
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