TRAVEL WRITING COMPETITION WINNERS
Balkan showers
WORDS MATTHEW FIGG
“Remind me again why we thought this was a good idea?!” I gasped, kicking up a dense cloud of dust that lingered ominously in the impossibly still summer air. I turned my head, wiping thick beads of sweat from my forehead and hoping to be rewarded with a view across the red-tiled rooftops and delicate minarets of Prizren, the charming second city of Kosovo. This hope rapidly crumpled into dismay, as I realised we hadn’t even broken through the treeline.
“Without introducing himself, he flashed a crooked grin, turn on the hose and started the flow of
