Travel Blogs from Serbia and Montenegro
No Guns Allowed!
... of blokes from the hostel decided to make a last minute decision to go to an international soccer friendly. It was Serbia vs. Ireland, and the locals are known for their hooliganism. It seemed a rather tame affair however, and we were dumbfounded that ...
Montenegro for dinner... really???
... 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 ...
Montenegro and Serbia
... 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 ...
back in the 15th century
... I used 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. ...
The train adventure continues
... 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. ...
Chapter 51: Drunken Island Hopping
... than Dubrovnik (and less crowded), but it has plenty of tiny alleys, medeival buildings, cool town walls, little shops & restaurants, and clear blue water. After settling in we walked around town, which took all of 10 minutes. Then we bought some ...
Independence beers in Budva
... 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 ...
Oops, Wrong City. I'm Sorry
... that much of what he was saying was expletive deleteds' directed at me. Just as I thought he'd turn, level his machine pistol and start firing, the steward charged into the car mad as hell. He raced towards the toilet and yelled, "You want the toilet? ...
Croatia into Montenegro
... the past 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 ...
THE PEOPLE WHO PICKED ME UP
... 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, ...
Randomly rock up in Serbia
... 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 ...
A day trip to Belgrade
... DEPARTURES' I very calmly told them. 'Which airport?' 'ATATURK'. 'This is not Ataturk Airport'. Istanbul has two international airports and we had been ringing the wrong one. Oops. One more call, this time to the correct airport, and the agent from ...
Serbia?
... , 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 ...
What is a Fjord?
... 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 ...
Beautiful Durmitor
... 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 ...
Hot chicks... apparently
... 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 ...
October Mosaics
... was again delicious - omelettes and Turkish coffee. The sun was shining and walking up the hill to the most beautiful church in Serbia was a great way to start the day. An enormous group of school children were just leaving as we arrived having bought ...
On Top(ola) of The World
... to get out of the hostel. We had the pleasure of another lovely waiter for breakfast, there have been so many nice people in Serbia. This guy even offered to help load the bikes up. I then pulled off a cracker to get us out of Belgrade ...
Montenegro
... 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. ...
Night train from hell!
... 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 ...
Arriving in the dark
... out of bed and leave our lovely room this morning, especially knowing it was going to be at least 65 miles. Omelette breakfast and punchy Turkish coffee revived us a bit though and we pedaled off in the sunshine at 10am. As usual Serbians really friendly ...
Bone Shaking Bridge delivers us to Belgrade
... nbsp; We stopped in a town called Banatsko for a coffee where I had a really good chat with a guy, mostly about football and Man U. I was able to name Vidic but other Serbian greats escaped me. There was later another very strange town called ...
Blissful day off!
... mum and dad from the Itouch which was brilliant. Returned to the hostel where Mikey cooked us a healthy meal (with some vegetables!) and I had a chat with the Barnetts. Spent the evening in the hostel trying to sort out the Gick family Christmas in ...
Beautiful Budva And Historic Kotor.
... winding through Albanian then Montenegren mountains, with spectacular forest and ocean views, we arrived at our accommodation for the night. Montenegro, once part of the Yugoslav federation has had full independence since 2006, making it one of the newest ...
Exlporing the city
... 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 ...
Where the hell is Montenegro
... . 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 ...
Remote Romania
... hit a small road out through the slums of the city. It really was depressing, piles of rubbish, dogs roaming the streets and buildings in a terrible way. The roads we had chosen today were always going to be remote, the dangers of yesterdays ...
Who knew they were separate countries?
... if you 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 ...
Change of Plans
... Then I started hearing rave reviews from people who had been there, including a buddy Lloyd, also from Ios, who was doing Serbia with Andy and his brother Jimmy. Aside from adding some new and different places to the trip, it actually made more sense. ...
the unknown serbian adventure
... . 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 ...
