Montenegro Travel Blogs

... and globalization. The war had forced him to move from what is now Croatia to his current home in what is now Montenegro.  (Most Slovenians, Croats, Serbs, etc. said their former dictator Tito had been good, because he'd kept Yugoslavia unified, ...

A travel blog entry from Kraljevo by modernoddyseus
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... shockingly, and then Irina joins Phin and I down at the beach for a swim before we agree to all head to Montenegro for dinner. The drive down was amazingly beautiful and we all enjoy getting to know each other while giving each other a hard ...

A travel blog entry from Kotor by madman96
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... Montenegro win the European water polo championship 9-8 in the final with the delighted owner of the apartment.  Montenegro, Budva aside, is a beautiful country, huge mountain peaks hug the coastline of crystal blue sea which makes you forget ...

A travel blog entry from Subotica by baileyandkerry
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POLSKI: Rano musielismy przejsc jeszcze kawalek, zanim dotarlismy do restauracji Cetinje, ktora okazala sie byc baza wypadowa autostopowiczow. Stala ich co najmniej czworka, w rownych odstepach od siebie. My zrobilismy sobie ...

A travel blog entry from Kotor by bogna
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Getting into Sofia after a long 14 hour train ride, complete with customs stops and several other interruptions, we head out on a walking tour of the Bulgarian capital.  We meet a buddy from Japan who has been travelling for three years ...

A travel blog entry from Belgrade by madman96
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... 3E) apparently. As a final blast, Ruth and I went out for dinner the night that the unofficial results of Montenegro's Independence Referendum were announced. Needing a vote of 55% or more for independence from Serbia, the unofficial, likely-to-be ...

A travel blog entry from Budva by technotrekker
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After the long journey with the CCRD sufferer we arrived to Sophia early in the morning. Reading our Let's Go guide book we realised there wasn't much to do here, so with this in mind we booked a train ticket onwards to Budapest for that afternoon. With ...

A travel blog entry from Belgrade by eatdessertfirst
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... days we have continued down the Dalmatian coast, stopping on the island of Hvar, the walled city of Dubrovnik, and into Kotor in Montenegro. We have also ditched the tent, leaving it rotting in a Dubrovnik camp site. We made the mistake/ good judgment of ...

A travel blog entry from Kotor by baileyandkerry
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Well, Here we go again! ..I wont say much as i havn't had the best day. Here we are in Belgrade (actually Beograd) and we arrive straight out of the train station to attempt to get something to eat as we are so worn out. The food is very different ...

A travel blog entry from Belgrade by clintonb
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... in a cafe people watching until we had to leave. We had really enjoyed our stay in Kotor and wanted to explore more of Montenegro. The people were really friendly and eager to tell of other interesting places to visit in their country, but I couldn't ...

A travel blog entry from Kotor by lucinate
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The primary goal for today was to get from Istanbul to Sarajevo. There are no cheap direct flights so we flew with JAT, the Serbian airline, via Belgrade. This involved a seven hour wait between flights. First things first. We needed to return the car, ...

A travel blog entry from Belgrade by guykb
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The morning sun shines directly into my dorm room - it's one of those inevitabilities of life - like the tallest guy in the world sitting in front of you at the football or someone else ordering a better dessert than you.Ineffective dorm room curtains are ...

A travel blog entry from Belgrade by marktjhung
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... near the roaring log fire and Vladimir warned us that the portions are big. We heeded that and didn't order too much. Interestingly, Montenegro uses the Euro as currency even though it is not yet part of Europe. We paid for our lunch and shouted Vladimir ...

A travel blog entry from Kotor by guykb
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Well, i write this entry just before 6am squished in a cabin full of too many people for a night train, with only minutes of sleep, soaked in my own sweat and just dying to get off. It all started when we rocked up to the Budapest train station and ...

A travel blog entry from Belgrade by clintonb
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Back in March when I was having dramas with my flight home, trying to change the dates, I was asked by STA Travel to fill out an online form with new dates for when I'd like to use the flight. Back at that point I wasn't sure how Greece would pan out so I ...

A travel blog entry from Belgrade by danblank
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I bet you are sitting there thinking, where the fuck is Montenegro ????? Before we left, our mate, Tadek kept saying, you have to go to Montenegro, you will regret it otherwise. Then we met Andrea in Korcula and she kept saying that there was this place ...

A travel blog entry from Kotor by uncle_davros
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We woke up from a good few hours of needed sleep. Thought we needed to get out for a while so we went for a walk back to the main shopping street where we bought a hotdog which was very different to what i'm used to. People here dont each much, i dont ...

A travel blog entry from Belgrade by clintonb
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... to be your own country, good luck to you.  However, whilst in Macedonia, in anticipation of visiting "Serbia and Montenegro", we changed about 400 dollars worth of some currency or other into Serbian dinars (or whatever the hell they are called.  ...

A travel blog entry from Kotor by jambo
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... were beautiful, anyway, as we drove past. Oh, and when we stopped at a rest area somewhere in Serbia (no longer 'Serbia and Montenegro', no matter what the country list on my log says) I got some money from the ATM, thinking we were in Bulgaria, since ...

A travel blog entry from Mysterytown by gtrob
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... into a sweat.....another good reason to have a digi camera. The next step was Bodva, the biggest beach resort in Montenegro and also the biggest disappointment for us. The huge hotels dominate the short stretch of beach with sunbeds and parasoles with not ...

Hallo zusammen, da ich bisher alle Hauptstaedte auf dem Balkan besucht habe, wollte ich auch die Hauptstadt von Montenegro besichtigen. Viel gibt es dort aber nicht zu sehen, nach einer Stunde war ich fertig. Die Stadt ist zwar sehr alt (das roemische ...

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We (Nick, myself, Richard and Alison) headed out to Serbia to visit friends and see the Exit festival. After traveling by train from Budapest with some very classy Brits also on their way to the festival ("Are we in Siberia yet?") we arrived at Novi Sad ...

... much 2 weeks straight) but the view proved spectacular and was well worth the climb... If you ever get a chance to go to Montenegro, Kotor is probably the best place to go...A ruined fortress in a fjord with a stunning old town and a ruined fortress (and ...

I am currently somewhere over the Artic Ocean flying to Beijing.  I have been on the plane for the last 7 hours and 20 minutes.  I have my own tv in the seat in front of me which has a map feature that tells how fast the plane is traveling as ...

... the hostel. You could not get away from the smell of smoke. I’m sure whatever smoke we’d washed off from Montenegro came back with a vengeance in Serbia. The next day we weren’t leaving for Thessaloniki, Greece until night time so we ...

Although we slept on a park bench for quite a while. Some view from the citadel (see issue 23 for more)

i promise i didnt plan it this way, but i managed to arrive in belgrade just in time for the final few nights of the belgrade beer festival. man its good fun! basically the whole city just goes out to the fortress that is on the hill above the town and ...

Ulcinj is a very odd city. In the medieval years it was a haven for pirates who would capture passing ships in the Adriatic. They would steal the ships and cargo and ransom off the captives and all those that wouldn't pay up, they would sell into slavery. ...