Well I haven’t posted for a while and that’s been due to the fact that I have had to get connected to the wireless system that covers the area where I am now living and working. It really is a great welfare support to have this ability to connect onto the web without having to queue for time and space in an internet cafe.

There are restrictions on bandwidth etc which is not the best for someone like me who needs access to his social media but I am sure solutions are out there for these problems.

I have just found out how to ftp from a web based system as the network router here blocks normal ftp platforms.

AND

I haven’t found out yet how I am going to be able to upload podcasts of any considerable length, but hey! these are nice little challenges eh?

Well just wanted to let you now I am still alive and getting back on track.
Went for a walk this afternoon around the area where I am and bumped into …. can you believe it Burger King.

Burgers get everywhere. Even Here!

As I type my emails before “Turning in for the Night” I just set my recorder “On” on the window sill. A typical Pristina night sound at just after 10pm.

After arriving at my Hotel where I was to spend the first evening in Kosovo, I went for a short walk to get some cash for the next day and found somewhere really cool to eat one of the best meals I have eaten in a long time, in a restaurant called “Liburnia” in the centre of downtown Pristina. My batteries died too soon. PPPPPPP!

Wow it was HOT today!

42.8 I just had to hide and lie down!

I recently managed to speak with Dr Sharifa Sharif who until some time ago was the the advisor to President Hamid Karzai on international affairs.

We talked about her life and her involvement in the Afghan media landscape and how and why the media situation is as it is today in Afghanistan.

My last views of Kingston from the Holiday Inn Hotel. New chapter opening soon!

Its time to leave Canada and head back to Europe and this little documented last minutes of my life in Kingston Ontario is important I think.

David catches up with another David, this time “David the 9th” the Regimental Mascot of the Fort Henry Guard.

PAB 2008 has started.

Dave Brodbeck presenting in his own unique and engaging style on the Friday afternoon!

Check out my PAB 2008 images HERE

I thought that I would start a category on The DFBMBE Blog about Bosnia, which is a place very close to my heart.

Many people I know ask me about the war and what it was like back in the 1990’s.

Well I can’t answer that as I only spent a very short time in the area between Tomislavgrad and Prozor during a short trip with a mobile radio station in 1993, when I was working with BFBS (The British Forces Broadcasting Service).

My relationship with the country really started in 1998, in Banja Luka.

I thought that this video by Matthew Rycroft CBE (at the time of filming, The British Ambassador to BiH), sums up brilliantly where the country really is 10 years after I first arrived.