What do you know about Europe’s youngest country? Why is there an 11ft tall statue of Bill Clinton in its capital city? Check out this travelogue as we take a trip to the youngest country in Europe, a diverse melting pot of different cultures with a rich history spanning thousands of years.
04:59 – Pristina Bear Sanctuary
7:41 – Whirlwind tour of Pristina
12:53 – Meeting various community members
13.56 – Meeting the Balkan Egyptian community
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In this action-packed travelogue we leave Serbia on an icy morning and head to the border with Kosovo, where we encounter a confusing and unusual situation before eventually crossing successfully.
We head straight for the capital city of Pristina in our LDV Convoy van, to buy some internet for our phones. We hastily leave the chaos of the city and drive into the mountains, where we visit FourPaws bear sanctuary, a rescue centre for previously caged restaurant bears.
The next day, we head back into Pristina to give a whirlwind tour of its famous sites including the National Library of Kosovo, the Cathedral of Saint Mother Teresa and the Bill Clinton Statue. It begins to snow heavily and we need to make a quick dash back to the van to get back to our camp spot for the night. Our phones die in the cold and we forget where we parked!
The next day, we meet local journalist and radio worker Denis, who introduces us to an artist that focuses on the persecution of minority groups through various mediums, drawing comparisons to the suffering of minorities in World War 2.
Later in the day, we cross the country to meet Balkan Egyptian journalist Lendrit, who then introduces us a traditional earthenware potter and a group of Shia Muslim Dervishes.
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A little about us…
We’re Lucy and Ben, two photographers from Cornwall, UK who’ve been living and travelling in our self-converted LDV Convoy camper van for the best part of four years. We’ve travelled all across Europe from West to East documenting our encounters with the people we meet as well as our own travels and adventures. We embrace the ethos of slow travel and minimal living, generally spending between 2 and 8 weeks in each country, getting to know each culture, cuisine and people as though we were locals ourselves as well as hiking, wild swimming and camping as we go.
We are currently on our third 7 month long road trip, travelling through the Balkans for the second time beginning in the French Alps and venturing as far East as Turkey, visiting 13 countries in between.
Our plan was simple: visit every country in Europe in our rusty tin can of a van. So far we’ve made it to 28 countries, travelling as far West as Portugal and as far East as Ukraine, having all sorts of crazy adventures in between.
Our main motivation for our travels is to capture photos and create documentary projects, so our van is primarily a vessel for our photography. We tend to focus on topics such as nomadism, traditional ways of life, the effects of recent political events and the difficulties of living in remote rural areas as well as documenting our own adventures and lifestyle on our various social channels.
We’ve had so many memorable experiences on our travels, and our photo documentary projects have given us an intimate insight into the lives of many different people and brought us together as friends.
We’ve visited the folk living in one of the most remote corners of Europe in the Albanian Alps, experienced the culture and traditions of the horsemen in the Hortóbagy National Park, and experienced life with Roma gypsies in their village in Romania, and there’s still so much more to explore…
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