Hotel Philia Podgorica

... and wool blankets. So we all got to sleep during the ride. (Well, Andre and the two guys got to sleep.) The train was really loud for some reason (between the tunnels we went through and the loud rail itself) so I didn’t get to much sleep. Also, we got woken up by police once at the Montenegro border for customs and then twice more at the Serbian border for passport checks and visa stamps and customs. It was a long night.

... Tara Canyon, but through the lesser known (but perhaps not less beautiful) Piva Canyon. The drive seemed to take a quite a while as it was up and down and around mountains, in what seemed a million different directions. In actual, it only really took us 5 hours to get back.<br><br>Needless to say, everyone was happy to see the inside of the apartment. We were all tired of ...

This day should come other than planned.<br>In the morning i wanted to go and visit Podgorica a little bit, which, so i was told, shouldnot be too great. After receiving a great breakfast i checked my mails.<br>Afterwards Sasa told me, he had not to work this day and we gonna have a barbeque at a lonly river, which really sounded nice. It was even better than any of my high ...

... didn't push the issue. As a former lifeguard and avid swimmer, I couldn't wait for my vacation to start and Darko delivered it to me as promised. The onset of our journey began at sunset; still adjusting to the time zone differential I dozed off in Darko's backseat; for how long I'm uncertain. I dozed on and off until sunrise when we reached the Montenegrin border. I mean, there wasn't much to see driving in the dark cover of night. The wider well lit highway we initially set out ...

... and her hospitality and friendliness really put a smile on my face. I just hope her hospitality extends to not caring when I unceremoniously chucked the sandwich into a bin just outside Podgorica station later on. The view out of the windows was fantastic. Mountains rolled into the distance and about a kilometre down from the tracks cars sped along a main road in the early morning haze. I snapped a few photos, but my ...

... by the hill of Spas whish is overgrown with dense pine and oak forest. The beach is a accessible by narrow path going through Avala hotel complex. It is 150 m away from Budva´s old town. Mogren IMogren consists of two sandy beaches 350 m long, which are connected with a tunnel. These beaches were named after the Spanis seaman Mogrini, who had a shipwreck and landed at one of them. As a ...

... The only thing they insist on is a "cigi break" hourly. I think it was more like every 20 minutes but I lost count. In a matter of a week, I had learned some French from Yaya, much European and classical history from Homer, and geology from James. When we walked down the street, we definitely turned heads. Maybe accentuated by Yaya and Homer who like to scream French heavy metal songs when we walk. Not too discreet but kept me ...

29 November Nice and warm in the day on Adriatic coast, but freezing at night especially when Im staying with old folks in their house and they dont have heating. Last night wore 2 pairs of socks, thermal trousers, thermal vest and a baraclava. Completely covered apart from hands and still disturbed night as too cold.

... it through many years of schooling without realizing how influential the Ottoman Empire was. Virtually all of these countries went through roughly 500 years of Ottoman rule followed by one form or another of communist dictatorship with varying degrees of influence from the USSR. I think the guidebook said that Romania just celebrated it's 24th year as an independent country...ever. But anyway just listening to the Serbian music this guy was pointing out ...

... as the attitude I saw there was terrible. Trash, different body liquids, food leftovers are everywhere - loitering is a national sport, and cleaning up is not. The weather on Montenegrian coast is worth experiencing. During summer it is around 22-25 degrees in the shade. A few kilometers away, you can see the black mountains and scary clowds looming above them. On our first day, the clouds reached the ...