From Pristina, I drove to the suburb of Gračanica, which is one of Kosovo's minority Serbian municipalities. Here, Serbian flags were flying along the streets. I came here to see the Gračanica monastery which is over 700 years old and now an (endangered) UNESCO World Heritage Site.
From Gračanica it was another thirty minute drive southwest to my hotel which is in the little village of Lipjan. I reached it before sunset.
As I was relaxing in my room after dinner, I was shocked to see an email reminding me of my flight back to Vienna tomorrow! I was supposed to have two nights in Kosovo, so my flight was on February 2, I was sure. Well, it turned out that I had booked for February 2, but that those emails over the last few weeks I had been largely ignoring from Wizz Air telling me my flight time had changed were trying to tell me the date had changed, not just the time! So, my original fight was now leaving on February 1. I was not ready to go back to Vienna tomorrow, so I decided to buy a new flight for February 2 on Austrian airlines to get back that way. It was annoying because my Wizz deal had seemed so good and now I was stuck forking out a couple hundred more dollars, but it was better than missing out on a day in Kosovo, plus I had already paid for the rental car for two days, and the hotel was so much cheaper than I would pay in Vienna that ultimately it did seem the good sense thing to do.
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