A Little Local Difficulty

VISOKI DECANI 6/8/2011 IT IS five in the morning, and in the exquisite 700-year-old Serbian Orthodox monastery of Visoki Decani the soothing sound of chanted prayer wafts heavenwards. A few hours later, fortified by a hearty breakfast and a reading from the lives of the saints, the long-bearded and black-robed monks head off to work, one on a combine harvester