today while leaving Nis we stopped to visit a WWII concentration camp set up by the Nazis as a concentration camp (i did not forget what i was typing) before sending Serbs, Jews roma, etc to the labor and death camps in Germany and Poland. it was somber? i guess, a big building that used to be a magazine where all the people were crammed, with some walls around it, not too impressive, but some 30,000 people were trafficked through there, unless my memory coupled with poor translation is accurate (for example we were told yesterday that Nis has thirteen-hundred-thousand people in it, in reality it has about a fifth this many)
we also rode on the bus for a while, then went to this quaint little restaurant with roasted meats, i had, of coarse, lamb, there was also beef riblets and pork skewers, all were delicious.
we passed through the Serb-Kosovar border with ease, i expected a heavily fortified secure border, it was less impressive than some of the tolls between Boston and New York. got a Kosovo stamp, saw some KFOR guys, so a good day, tomorrow we get to wander around the city a lil bit after our talkietalk stuff, hopefully me and Miguel can catch some of the Italians and see what they have to say (the KFOR presence in Prishtina is made up of Italians).
i havent gotten a feel for the city yet, as our hotel is new, and like 3km from anything but freeways, so too lazy/late to wander around and see whats up with the city. whenever i can get on with my computer ill post some pics of the border and anything else i find interesting.
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