First impressions about Kosovo

Just arrived by plane on 28th of august 2009 to airport of Pristina approximately 20 km from the city, fined out – my baggage is lost. Airport of pristine is rather small, but there exists "lost and found" office. It was empty, just on the small lists of paper I find local number to call. A woman spoke a little English so I needed to wait a little. Second woman spoke much better English so we find out that my belongings are forgotten in Vienna, I got a promise having them tomorrow 29 th august here in Pristina.

After this I should say little misunderstanding my first impressions about the newest country in Europe were not the best ones. Having fixed all papers about missing items, I walked out of the airport building and thank god first person I met was in the light blue t-shirt of Kosova-sofware of-freedom. They had been waiting for me for a long time, but they did. We took not the closest way to the city, we went with 10 year old WV van through small Kosovian villages, most of the buildings looked un unfinished, road and grass near it are really dirty full of household and municipal waste, it seems locals are not doing any day to day cleaning at all.

Our guide (I don't remember his name) is very communicative, and as I can see all young people also. We went to the downtown left two of conference speakers in their hotel, I`ve managed to walk to my reserved accommodation "Professors guesthouse", nice pretty three storey brick building, rooms are cheap 15 EUR only., but I am still in stress my baggage is lost and I am not sure will I get it tomorrow. So I`ve managed to send mails to google group of the conference and went out for little food shoping.

Conclusion

Kosovo and Pristina nice and welcoming despite of the baggage loss I am feeling good and I think any who could come here for first time will have a same nice feelings. Something even amazed me;

1. EUR currency – I supposed local currency, but local is EUR
   
2. Easy walk able city of Pristina
   
3. English speakers – even Taxi drivers are speaking very well English.
   

This my first emotions, but I plan to place more in a few days.