Structures of Kosovo
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So this week, I took my camera out and started taking pictures of the surrounding area on our way to other basecamps or whatever. Considering all of these pictures are being taken from a moving vehicle, there is only so much you can do. Proof of a war torn country, exhibit A. A brick house on stilts. Most of the houses here are made with brick foundation, they have a rich red soil here and very scrawny trees, so wooden houses are kind of unheard of. The European Union came in and built a whole bunch of houses by starting the brick foundations and letting the Kosovar come back and finish them. A lot of these houses are unfinished and empty because a lot of people have left for good. A lot of them remain unfinished also because they can't get taxed on the house if it has no windows.  This seems like a metal dumping ground or something.  This is a Serbian Orthodox church. KFOR soldiers are not supposed to go inside of them, but it is part of our job to protect them. Many of these structures are hundreds of years old.  I don't know what it is about this quiet little building on the side of the creek, but I really like it. You can't really see it by the picture, but there is trash littering that creek bed.  This is a broken and battered wall along the road of one of the Kosovar villages. many of the villages look very much the same, this is a structure that is very common.  Right along the side of the road, this road is about the best you'll get here. Two lane highways everywhere you go. It kind of gives you a good idea of the standard scene in any given village.  Ruins from '99.  More Ruins. . .  This is a typical street off the beaten path.  Not an uncommon sight on the road, passing up our fellow HMMW-V's in a convoy. Tomorrow, I think i'll show some of the vehicles people use around here. They get pretty creative with what they drive.
Posted by Erickson on 4:00 AM : (((
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