Best Western Hotel Montenegro Podgorica

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 Doclea) aber viel historische Bausubstanz ist nicht uebrig geblieben.

Die Stadt hiess zur jugoslawischen Zeit uebrigens Titograd.
Gruss
Ralf

Day 1
Aunt Sue and I got out walked downtown. This only takes about 15... but in the heat it feels like a whole lot longer! From the apartment, we walked to the UN building to see Pete at work. From the UN building we hit the post office, the Russian pedestrian bridge (with a great view of the millennium bridge), the national defense building, with a final destination of the Budda Bar. Despite the menu being ...

... Darko ran up to someone important showing his governmental badge as I recall, asking them to hold the flight until I board. There was hardly time for JAT to weigh my luggage; they did however inform me it weighed over the limit allowed. Darko said there was no time to be picky about what I was bringing back to the States ; I obeyed leaving one full suitcase behind with him as to not miss my flight. Quickly helped me through customs and the gate, I tried prolonging our goodbye ...

I was woken up again at about 3am. Another Serb guard- this one was almost definitely from the border patrol- he looked like one of the henchmen from James Bond as well. He requested all our passports, and being the only non-Serb/Montenegrin passenger in the compartment I was of course the one who got interrogated. Border interrogation is always an entertaining experience, the people you are speaking to are generally taught a ...

... family. It was built in 1934 and it is separated from the highway with a wall with two gates, one leading to Przno, and the other one to St. Stefan. The beach is 380m long, and in the background there is Milocer forest spreading out in the area of 18 ha. There are rare exotic tree species, like Lebanon cedar, tropical Mimosa, Japanese medlar, cactuses, agavas etc. The Milocer beach ...

... the way down I met two Frenchmen who offered me a ride in their cab because we were all going to the same destination. As I was getting into the car, a big band of taxistas came out and said I could not leave with an outside taxi, that I must take their taxi. They were insistent that I cannot leave Ostrog with anyone but them, even if the French had already paid for the entire day's worth of chaufering. I felt the taxi drivers were ganging up on me ...

I bet you are sitting there thinking, where the **** 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 that is meant to have a fjord with a lovely town at the bottom of it. Bloody Kiwis the both of them, so because of them, whenever we saw someone with a new Lonely Planet, we kept borrowing them, as ...

... Montenegro is so much cleaner, the roads are better (slightly at first) and when we got to Podegerica we noticed how it was more geared up for tourists and visitors. The prices sort of gave it away! Everything was normally priced except for the hotel rooms - we found out later that tourists always get charged double everyone else - there's ...

Dubrovnik markets again - quite a few women in national dress Drive south along coast, around Gulf of Kotor - really beautiful - very flat water & mountains right to the edge just like Norway! Mountain pass towards Titograd Crossed lake that shares borders with Albania Avoided Titograd Contined on to fabulous gorge where we camped