Serbia and Montenegro
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The Cathedral- St. Mary was very good but I reccommend that you find out how to get there and once your there be sure to have a guide as the crowds can be so big that only people with a guide can go into the under ground part where they say St. mary ...
rain and sun but still a nice day
... being renovated in the offseason with that not much to captivate my attention for more then a day or so. I walked around the town and several nearby towns for 6 hours today, my feet are sore from all the walking i been doing lately you'd think after 2.5 ...
Dani the champion of the world
... a sign saying that I was entering another country and apart from my use of Hungarian to the Serbian border guard everything went smoothly and I got a Serbian stamp in my passport. As usual some of my ride was spent in my own little dream world. Some of ...
Where are those bloody Black Mountains?
... , Montenegro is another stunning walled sitting on a bay (or "Fjord" as they call it), along the Adriatic. Montenegro just recently gained independence from Serbia (although Travelpod doesn't seem to have caught on yet) and is part of the EU now. The ...
National Park
We have been busy busy, sorry for not posting in a while. We spent a few days in a national park in Montenegro. It was quite an adventure to get there. We took a very small bus on a one way road which was used to go both ways, with ...
Mountains, finally!
... be likely to happen, but I had been jubious. How wrong I was, Milijan was a really cool guy, full of englightening conversation and remarkably open minded considering the size of the town. After a wash and some passul, a type of sausage soup we met up ...
Russian Invasion
... an sich ist schon recht teuer verglichen mit Albanien) und fahren nach Fahrplan! Budva ist die Tourismus Hochburg von Montenegro, hier fallen die Pauschalreisenden wie eine biblische Plage ein. 90% der Pauschis kommen aus dem Ostblock, Russen, Ukrainer, ...
first day of sitseeing
really awesome and i would totally do it again and again. tommorow i will be going to the cathedral- St. ...
Kosovo is a country Travelpod!
... so strange as well you see the albanian flag more often then the kosovo flag. The hostel is ok its more like a hotel and the receptionists seem clueless about everything it took them 20 min of chatter between themselfs to figure out that i was infact not ...
kotor
... the most spectacularıly sıted cıtıes ın the world. As a sıde note to thıs as we don't have any other blogs from Montenegro we'd just lıkely to quıckly gıve the capıtal of Montenegro, Podgorıca, the rubber chıcken award for beıng the ...
Cruising through Montenegro
... we were driving, but must have been feeling generous.We got talking to the English guy and he was a little worried about travelling through Montenegro and Albania on his own, so we invited him to stay with us for a while. We headed to Kotor, a ...
Not much to say about Novi Sad...
... about 8 hours. The busride is a long one, but it goes through some very beautiful scenery. The border area between Serbia and Bosnia deserves particular note as being easily some of the most stunning scenery I have ever seen. It was a ...
Montenegro
17/8-18/8 Montenegro is a lovely little country and is now separated from Serbia. They are also in Euros which surprised us a little, and really it feels and looks like it is part of the EU, I would not be surprised if joins very soon. We have ...
Up the walls, Kotor
From Montenegro's South coast to the North, our bus mostly followed the sea along, basically a constant series of towns and resorts for 2 hours including Sveti Stefan, a tiny island covered by ancient terracotta roofed houses (now a hotel...). Kotor is ...
What It's Like to Chillout W/ Karadzic and Mladic
... NATO member states committed gross violations of customarily accepted international criminal law in launching military aggression against Serbia and Montenegro owing to not acquiring United Nations Security Counsel approval prior. Then as hit with the ...
Ostrog Monastery
... back on the bus to begin winding down the mountainside to visit the lower monastery. The lower monastery is slightly less spectacular and is basically a church containing many frescoes and sat in a nice park on the side of the mountain. There's also ...
Montenegro, the newest country in the world
... and cold. We played chess in the smoke-filled waiting room then hopped on the train. Oh, and another thing: in Montenegro (and as you will read in a later blog entry, in Serbia) people can smoke almost anywhere. It’s crazy. Europe is much more ...
Vienna to Novi Sad, Serbia
... a day of rest and fuelled by good food and made it to a little village called Fajzs to camp. I crossed the border into Serbia on the 21st and made it to Sombor. The first town of any size. I was looking for a camp site or even a cheap hostel. This ...
Up to Kotor
... full of people cars and high rise buildings. Instead we backtracked to a little place called Sveti Stefan. This place was gorgeous and it had a little island just off shore that before the war had been turned into an exclusive hotel. It didn't look ...
Tear Gas & Homophobia: The Serbia Riots
... at the threat of violence. And, they were successful. They proved they could not be intimidated and announced to everyone (both in Serbia and in the world) that gay society exists in this country too. And by taking that first (painful) step out into the ...
City Life
... -sens-du-poil - "Do you have a reservation?" ... "Hmmm, no?" ... "Sorry, reservations only" ... "Oh, but we're from Canada, and I heard that its the best club in town, anyway we can get in??" ... "Alright... go in" - s'avera efficace et nous étions ...
CONTIKI - BELGRADE
... . It was a very long day! When we eventually came into Belgrade, we drove past actual slums with little shacks surrounded by filth and rubbish. If you have seen Slum Dog Millionaire, it was very similar to the slums in that, but existing now. We then had ...
And then the rain came.....
From Albania we struggled across the border to Montenegro and immediately the infrastructure improved. There were bus stations, complete with timetables and toilets, and flat, tarmac roads. Heaven. We decided to head to Budva, a big resort town on the ...
truenorth's awesome adventure the begining
... to Singapore and stayed there for five hours and then I flew to Frankfurt and I stayed there for twelve hours and then i finally made it to Novi Sad. I learnt a little serbian before and i highly reccommend it but over all it was a great ...
Leaving Budva
Hallo zusammen, hatte zum Glueck auch noch einmal gutes Wetter in Budva. Hier noch ein paar Fotos. Gruss Ralf ...
... and the residence
... die Hauptstadt und Cetinje ist heute die Residenzstadt (des Praesidenten). Cetinje war lange Zeit die Hauptstadt von Montenegro, ist heute eine verschlafene Kleinstadt, die fuer ein paar Stunden erwacht wenn die Pauschaltouristen mit ihren Reisebussen ...
Expensive sunscreen = 3rd degree burns
... old town and some ruins above it that we dragged our lazy asses up to. It was from here that we got an awesome view of the fjord. Montenegro is one of our favorite destinations and we would recommend it to everyone, especially those going to ...
Postcard Island
Hallo zusammen, um 16 Uhr waren wir wieder an der Kueste und ich habe noch einen kurzen Ausflug zur Postkartenstadt Sveti Stefan unternommen. Die Stadt liegt auf einer Insel die durch eine kleine Landzunge mit der Kueste verbunden ist. Es war ...

