Got a Christmas card this morning from my old housemate Theresa (aka T.R.), who’s working in Kosovo at the moment. I was more interested in the card than in the stamp at first. Then while I was checking T’s address on the card against the one I had on file for her before dumping the envelope, I noticed that the stamp was denominated in Euro.
“Huh,” I thought. “Didn’t know Kosovo had gone onto the Euro…” And I took a closer look at the stamp. Quite neat. The tiny little letters say “United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo.” (Click on the image for a larger version.)
Here’s UNMIK’s web page. Fascinating…
I look forward with slightly unnerved interest to T’s promised MP3s of New Year’s celebrations in Pristina, which she suggests contain considerable amounts of both fireworks and gunfire…