Odds and Ends from Annette

If you come to visit us in Prizren, you can take a horse cart ride.  Kadri Palla owns the cart and horse (Rubin).  The cart is an antique that has been on Prizren streets for over 70 years and started out as a taxi service.  You can purchase a ride for 5 Euros, and Rubin can be found most days in Shadervan Square.  

Yet another food item...but I have received many comments from friends and relatives that they like to see the foods that we are offered in restaurants. Also, it helps me remember things we did and places we visited. This is from the only Mexican restaurant in Kosovo, I think.  The restaurant is right off the main plaza in Pristina.  It was a pretty good attempt at a burrito. Of course, I wish the burrito had been smothered in  the hot green chili found in Southern Colorado and New Mexico.  

Living in Kosovo, you get used to hazards when walking down the street.  I'll have to take some photos of walking to the university in Prizren.  Sometimes the sidewalks have big cracks or craters, or sometimes they just disappear and the walker is forced to get into the street.  Another common situation is people parking their cars on the sidewalks (streets are often very narrow with no parking) which forces pedestrians to get in the street.  It's amazing with all of the hazards there don't seem to be many mishaps.  There is a kind of flow to the traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian, and somehow, the cars know how to avoid pedestrians and pedestrians have a sense of when they need to get off of the street.  This photo was taken on Nene Teresa (Mother Teresa) Plaza in Pristina.  They are still constructing portions of it.  As you can see, people are walking along and all of a sudden there is a drop with missing blocks of cement and no waning.  You really have to pay attention where you are walking.  In the U.S. this would be a lawsuit just waiting to happen!

In anticipation of trying some international food during our trip this weekend to Macedonia, this photo is of the bento boxes that Frank and I enjoyed on our last trip to Macedonia's capital, Skopje in December. The Japanese restaurant we visited had excellent, fresh food, but it put a dent in our wallet.  We're spoiled by the healthy, fresh offerings in Prizren where we can both eat a nice meal for around 5 Euros (about $6.50).