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Would you take a free trip to Dardania

Would you travel to Dardania?

  • Sure, I would travel to Dardania. That would be great!

    Votes: 16 64.0%
  • No, thanks!

    Votes: 5 20.0%
  • Where is Dardania again?

    Votes: 4 16.0%

  • Total voters
    25

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After the previous thread about Paris, France I thought I make one for Dardania (see signature for which country is meant).

Contrasts from expectations to France you can talk more to people in Dardania, English is known more here, and generally more pro-American.

Kosovo travel guide by In Your Pocket

Why or why not?

Poll coming up.
 
After the previous thread about Paris, France I thought I make one for Dardania (see signature for which country is meant).

Contrasts from expectations to France you can talk more to people in Dardania, English is known more here, and generally more pro-American.

Kosovo travel guide by In Your Pocket

Why or why not?

Poll coming up.

Probably, but I'd feel a bit more apprehensive about it.

Are there any American military bases in your country?
 
Probably, but I'd feel a bit more apprehensive about it.

Are there any American military bases in your country?

Yes :)

Has a cool name too. It is called "Bondsteel." The element "steel" symbolically represents the bond between us. That is my interpretation of it.

Steel is nearly unbreakable!

Feel better :)
 
Yes :)

Has a cool name too. It is called "Bondsteel." The element "steel" symbolically represents the bond between us. That is my interpretation of it.

Steel is nearly unbreakable!

Feel better :)

Very. Having a nice, secure compound to stay on that's guarded by men with weapons makes me feel better about most things. :mrgreen:

It also means that the local population will be used to seeing Americans around.
 
After the previous thread about Paris, France I thought I make one for Dardania (see signature for which country is meant).

Contrasts from expectations to France you can talk more to people in Dardania, English is known more here, and generally more pro-American.

Kosovo travel guide by In Your Pocket

Why or why not?

Poll coming up.

I do not know exactly where the boarders of Dardania run. But I have traveled the region with the exception of serbia, where Americans were not very well liked just after the mess. I liked it. People were freindly, food was good. Police ripped you off, but even that was fun in a way.
 
After the previous thread about Paris, France I thought I make one for Dardania (see signature for which country is meant).

Contrasts from expectations to France you can talk more to people in Dardania, English is known more here, and generally more pro-American.

Kosovo travel guide by In Your Pocket

Why or why not?

Poll coming up.

What does your fine country have to offer? Not being a twat, I'm genuinely curious.
 
Yes :)

Has a cool name too. It is called "Bondsteel." The element "steel" symbolically represents the bond between us. That is my interpretation of it.

Steel is nearly unbreakable!

Feel better :)

I'd feel more confident in Bondadamantium, JamesBond, or BondLego.
 
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Yeah, but I'd stick to bigger cities. Kosovo is a scary place still. Still a ton of animosity over there, and the fall created a huge organized crime network.

Criminal underworld doesn't discriminate much over there (I have some Albanian friends that visit family regularly). Dress down if you're just walking around, rich looking tourists, especially westerners, are targeted. This place is pretty much the human trafficking capital of the region.
 
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After the previous thread about Paris, France I thought I make one for Dardania (see signature for which country is meant).

Contrasts from expectations to France you can talk more to people in Dardania, English is known more here, and generally more pro-American.

Kosovo travel guide by In Your Pocket

Why or why not?

Poll coming up.

Assuming all expenses were paid for, I can go anywhere I want and I do not have to sit through any stupid seminars or some other similar bull**** then sure I would go on a free trip to Dardania.
 
Very. Having a nice, secure compound to stay on that's guarded by men with weapons makes me feel better about most things. :mrgreen:

It also means that the local population will be used to seeing Americans around.

That is what I thought too. But practically that does not work.

The populace gets used to having American and other NATO member soldiers not civilians. As such soldiers are not reachable for the usual conversations we civilians take for granted.

They are professional distant people with a mind set for action. Actually you may end up in serious trouble if you were to attempt to commune with them. Coming from a military background you get to be seen as a spy or something of that nature instead.
 
I do not know exactly where the boarders of Dardania run. But I have traveled the region with the exception of serbia, where Americans were not very well liked just after the mess. I liked it. People were freindly, food was good. Police ripped you off, but even that was fun in a way.

Not Dardania then.
 
What does your fine country have to offer? Not being a twat, I'm genuinely curious.

Is not that link working for you? Should have covered major cultural, natural, historical, and leisure sites.

Being a mountainous region it is more about picnic parties during spring, summer, and autumn, while skiing during winter.
 
Yeah, but I'd stick to bigger cities. Kosovo is a scary place still. Still a ton of animosity over there, and the fall created a huge organized crime network.

Criminal underworld doesn't discriminate much over there (I have some Albanian friends that visit family regularly). Dress down if you're just walking around, rich looking tourists, especially westerners, are targeted. This place is pretty much the human trafficking capital of the region.

Where do you get this stuff?
 
Where do you get this stuff?

You seriously think Kosovo suddenly has turned into a happy place?

Leave the big cities and into ethnic areas....let me know how it goes.
 
Sounds cool, but I don't think I can get there from Texas. :lol:
 
Nope. Big deal though. How much does a trip there cost, about 37 bucks?
 
After the previous thread about Paris, France I thought I make one for Dardania (see signature for which country is meant).

Contrasts from expectations to France you can talk more to people in Dardania, English is known more here, and generally more pro-American.

Kosovo travel guide by In Your Pocket

Why or why not?

Poll coming up.

I'd be happy to visit Kosovo but, unlike Paris, I have no idea what there might be to see and enjoy there as a tourist. Can you give us a short list of historical, cultural or touristic attractions that would make us interested to visit? Novo Brdo sounds like my kind of place, but what else? Prstina certainly doesn't sound like the Paris of the Balkans to me, but perhaps I'm wrong.

I have visited Serbia, Bosnia and Bulgaria. Southern Serbia (close to Kosovo) wasn't somewhere I'd bust a gut to revisit.
 
I'd have to do some research to make sure it was safe to travel there, but assuming it was, and there wasn't some sort of catch, then sure. Why turn down a free vacation?
 
You seriously think Kosovo suddenly has turned into a happy place?

Leave the big cities and into ethnic areas....let me know how it goes.

Ethnic areas?

I live here. This is not Bosnia. There are no "ethnic areas" unless you speak of minorities up north.
 
You mean the food is bad, the people nasty and the police honest?

Touche ;)

No but the issue about the police, I find that a bit odd. Hence I thought you may not have traveled to Dardania specifically since you mentioned "region" instead.
 
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