Accommodation Milla Ulcinj

... in a different kind of place.<br><br>We had at least 6 hours to kill before our night train left for Belgrade so we decided to wander around. While we were walking to the downtown area, I kept thinking to myself, "How is this country a part of the EU?" It was really dirty, with litter everywhere. The shops and stores seemed kind of &#8220;ghetto.&#8221; We eventually found somewhere to eat (after what seemed like a really long ...

Hallo zusammen,<br><br>habe mir ein Taxi von Albanien nach Montenegro gegoennt, es hatte auch einen Bus gegeben (obwohl die locals in Shkoder das bestritten haben), aber die 12 Euro konnte ich mir leisten. Die Grenze war recht verschlafen, es gab nur einen Kontrollpunkt, habe nicht ganz begriffen, ob es der albanische oder montenegrische war, oder ...

When I arrived in Ulcinj, I was told by the woman working at the bus station that there was only one daily bus to Shkodra, Albania, the closest town over the border, and it was at 6am every day. Obviously I had already missed that bus, so I was spending the night in Ulcinj. At the bus station I met an Australian guy who had also just arrived in Ulcinj headed to Albania. We headed into ...

... sleep and was there before I knew it, sacrificing the gorgeous Lake Skadar view from the Albanian side and little villages. Got ripped off with a 10 euro border entry fee when I learned from James the Aussie later that it was supposed to be one euro. No visa needed though (gotta love USA).Then we caught the last bus to Tirana, Albania. On the bus ride, we were surrounded by a group of students coming home from a Skodhra university. They conversed to us in Spanish, Italian, and ...

... view with a nice patio under a canopy of grape and kiwi vines. The sea looked beautiful. The apartment was up an unpaved road which is not all that unusual here. The apartment would be fine although it was missing a window in the bathroom which provided open access to thiefs. I unpacked and walked in to see the town. It was a short walk but all along the way I saw plenty of litter. People seem to treat the cities in Montenegro as their own personal garbage ...

... down some (pretty crummy) band-aids at a local market. All fixed . . . well, basically. There quite conveniently happened to be a pretty cheap hotel located right by the bus station, so it didn't take too much slogging about in the heat to get situated. Judging from the people hanging around in some of the rooms, it seems like a popular place for transient locals. In any case, the room has AC and a private shower, so that's all I need. At &euro;20 for ...

... on transportation. With Bar only about 32km down the road, it didn't take long to get there. Along the way I got to sit back and watch the dramatic mountain scenery, as well as get a peek at the resort of Petrovac, just a little further down the way. Bar is, frankly, a dreadful place. Heavy on crumbling concrete and mind-numblingly identical tenement blocks dating from the Communist era, it's not a place to linger around in. Unfortunately, it's frequently the ...

... find. Tomorrow we plan to climb the walls of Kotor which involves 1500 steps straight up into the mountain behind Kotor...we have been promised that the view up top will make it all well worth it. We plan to take many pictures with our new digital camera....after pete decides exactly how to set the "white balance" on our camera. I'm not sure what that means, but there can't be anything wrong with being "balanced"! love, pete and yiyi

... any I'd seen so far, we barrelled along a wonderfully serpentine canyon for many hours. A wide, clear river of melted spring snows raged under heavily striated cliff-faces whilst elsewhere the mottled greens of new forest growth surrounded us like a cocoon. Literally hundreds of unlit tunnels hacked out of the rock delivered us onwards to oblivion ...

Well we have had a busy and exciting last few days since Hungary. The overnight train from Pecs to Sarajevo was not the most comofortable and we were stopped at each border (hungary, croatia, bosnia) and checked...constantly being woken up...but as the light began in the morning we were surronded by rolling fog and amazing mountain scenery...bosnia really was breathtaking...as we began to pass through villages the marks of the last decades war began to appear...many buildings ...