After the NATO-led
war against Yugoslavia in 1999, I travelled to Kosovo. Working
as a stringer for the "Daily Telegraph" and various
German newspapers, I covered the ongoing ethnic conflicts between
Kosovo Albanians and Serbs in the UN-administered province. In
my beloved "White Stag", an old Citroen CX 25 Turbodiesel,
I spent most of 2000 shuttling between Pristina and Belgrade,
with side trips to Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, and Macedonia.
Though repeatedly expelled by the Serbian authorities, I managed
to sneak back into Belgrade in October to witness the revolution
against the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, the "butcher of
the Balkans".
