Too Square to be Hip
A narcissist's guide to travel and culture
Podgorica, now that’s a capital that nobody has ever heard of! Probably most people While staying at a hostel in Bosnia, I had inquired about what places to stay while in Podgorica and my host flat out refused to recommend one saying the city was not worth visiting (his actual words were that “There is …
While most of the Balkans fell prey to Turkish expansionism, one region continued to resist. Its people, the Montenegrins, abandoned the shoreline of the Adriatic sea, an easy target for the Turk to raid and continued their fight from the hills and highlands of the Dinaric Alps. Under the wise reign of Prince Nicholas I …
Many cities claim to be impregnable, they have borrowed the moniker “The Gibraltar of the _______”, pretenders they are. Kotor and its mountainous cousin Cetinje make no such claims but the pair may be the closest thing any medieval army faced that would be considered impregnable. The maritime city of Kotor has changed hands many …
This blog post covers the coastal road from Budva to Ulcinj, near the Albanian border. This section of coastline is absolutely spectacular, combining historic old towns, jagged cliffs and winding roads. It is well worth renting a car and stopping off along the way. Although the journey is only 65 kilometers in length, the single …
Montenegro, a land with a fjord to rival any in Norway, has a breathtaking northern mountain range to compare with any in New Zealand. One particular sight, that of the Tara river gorge, is one of the most impressive in the world. The gorge is the deepest canyon on the European continent and registers as …
Trebinje (Bosnia) to Montenegro: My dad and I had left Trebinje in southern Herzegovina with a good afternoon beer buzz and food in our bellies. We had learned that the bus was not leaving until late in the evening so we did something that is only really affordable in the Balkans: We took a taxi …
