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THE PEOPLE WHO PICKED ME UP
Jul 24, 2008 (3 photos) ... 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, ... |
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Montenegro for dinner... really???
Jul 1, 2008 (8 photos) ... night before, and we start talking. I take a long shot, and say that she should probably join my buddy and I for dinner in Montenegro instead of going to Gil's. She agrees, somewhat shockingly, and then Irina joins Phin and I down at the beach ... |
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Montenegro and Serbia
Sep 13, 2007 ... stayed 5 nights here either side of our jaunt to Albania, enjoying some home comforts and chatting with the locals. My highlight was watching Montenegro win the European water polo championship 9-8 in the final with the delighted owner of ... |
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back in the 15th century
Jul 25, 2008 (100 photos) ... to have some classes with. I thought I`d pee in my pants. This world is so small! After a small meal, me and Marcin climbed up a fortress there. The thing is that we took a wrong way there, which was steep and dangerous. After ... |
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The train adventure continues
Jun 29, 2008 (7 photos) ... and now is living in Istanbul but was on a visa run. Talk about an interesting guy... We see all sorts of sights, not all pleasant to the eye, and then hop back on a train for an overnight trip to Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. |
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Independence beers in Budva
May 20, 2006 (21 photos) ... on worse in Asia so bring it on! Most of the trip had been traversing the alps at the borders of Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia. With mountains higher and more jagged than any I'd seen so far, we barrelled along a wonderfully serpentine canyon for ... |
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Serbia?
Aug 17, 2006 (13 photos) ... , even if the sign was a weed growing out of the concrete platform. So stopping at any and every rundown station platforms we crossed the border into Serbia, a country that wasn't exactly in our Europe travel plans. Stopping at the station (thankfully ... |
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Croatia into Montenegro
Sep 1, 2007 ... ten 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 ... |
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Beautiful Durmitor
Jul 3, 2008 (10 photos) ... 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 ... |
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Randomly rock up in Serbia
Aug 28, 2005 (1 photos) ... here - so we hopped up and got treking again. 5 hours later we had been to numerous amounts of hotels, travel shops and about 6 other types of businesses untill i cracked it and waltzed down the train station again. Here i found myself yet running into ... |
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What is a Fjord?
Jul 11, 2005 (5 photos) ... another walled town was just too much to resist, we had to investigate! Our mates Tadek and Karin had mentioned Montenegro was great and the Kiwi we had met on Korcula had also mentioned it. So recommendations taken, off we went. The scenery during ... |
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A day trip to Belgrade
Dec 6, 2007 ... fun couple of hours strolling along some very fancy shopping precincts, came across some Christmas markets, bought a small painting and had a lovely cup of coffee and a delicious cake in a rather glamorous coffees shop complete with huge chandeliers. ... |
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Hot chicks... apparently
Aug 9, 2006 (24 photos) ... suggest an underlying feeling, especially in the youth, of concern in the economy, the lack of opportunities in the current Serbia and also in the difficulties, both governmental and financial, in travelling and working abroad. And, in totality, Belgrade ... |
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Montenegro
Dec 15, 2007 (11 photos) ... mountains to visit Budva, another walled city, then return via a car ferry. As we approached the border between Croatia and Montenegro I realised that my tally of land border crossings was rapidly increasing. The border is situated in a narrow valley. ... |
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Night train from hell!
Aug 27, 2005 ... late, but we had to wait till 11:50pm for it to arrive. I've been informed i require to get a Visa for Macedonia in Serbia, so i will have all of tomorrow to search for one. Well we were sitting in the train station when the night started going down ... |
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Change of Plans
Aug 13, 2006 (11 photos) ... would've been about as helpful as a car in the middle of the ocean. See, everything, including the street signs, in Serbia is in Cyrillic. And for those who don't know much about me, I can't read Cyrillic. In Asia, every street sign written in the regional ... |
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Where the hell is Montenegro
Jul 12, 2005 (5 photos) ... . We did not get far, our thighs and calfs were screaming. So we turned around and came back We only had two days in Montenegro, and we would love to see more, if only bloody Tadek wasn't getting married we would have stayed longer. The people were far ... |
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Exlporing the city
Aug 29, 2005 (4 photos) ... to Athens. Even if it has cost me way over budget, i dont have to put up with another night train for a while :o) Serbia has been a good and bad time for me. Bad because of the terms i was arriving on and some of the service i recieved, however once ... |
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Who knew they were separate countries?
Aug 20, 2007 ... want 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 ... |
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the unknown serbian adventure
Jun 3, 2006 ... . The mountains 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 ... |
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The capital ...
Sep 29, 2009 (10 photos) 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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Photos from Serbia
Aug 25, 2005 (17 photos) 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 ... |
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Traipsing up a mountain anyone?
Mar 26, 2007 (10 photos) ... 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 ... |
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The Flight
Sep 5, 2008 ... I need a hug really badly! A flight attended just brought around a meal of Chinese noodles with an almond cookie and chopsticks. I was watching this old couple beside me try to eat the noodles with the chopsticks but she couldn't get the ... |
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Novi Sad -so sad to leave...
Nov 12, 2009 ... on staying 1 night in Novi Sad but ended up staying 3 and loving it. Didn't even plan on visiting Bosnia & Herzegovina or Serbia, but really glad we did decide to at the last minute as it has been wonderful and I've seen and learnt so much and met ... |
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Beograd
Nov 4, 2009 (24 photos) ... (the young hostel owner). We were quickly reminded of the “smoking epidemic” as I will call it in Serbia (and Montenegro). Everyone was smoking inside the hostel. You could not get away from the smell of smoke. I’m sure whatever smoke we ... |
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A dark city
Aug 16, 2003 Although we slept on a park bench for quite a while. Some view from the citadel (see issue 23 for more) |
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Beer Festival!
Aug 20, 2006 (2 photos) ... belgrade is very different to what i expected. there is hardly any evidence of war at all. most of the buildings have been rebuilt and it appears just like a normal city really. but i like it, because there are no tourists at all. there are only 3 other ... |