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Lady in the Balkans
Blog: A Lady in London - 3 October 2011
Most people thought I was crazy to travel to the Balkans by myself. I was lectured on safety, on health, on everything imaginable. But I had been curious about the region for years, not least because the only thing I really knew about it related to the conflicts in the 1990’s. There was surely more [...]
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Lady in Kotor
Blog: A Lady in London - 21 September 2011
Kotor is the new Dubrovnik. Or so it seems. The coastal town is located deep in a fjord on Montenegro’s coast, and boasts of a beautiful walled city that rivals that of its Croatian neighbor. With all the natural beauty and a fraction of the tourists, Kotor is a great alternative to its northern counterpart. [...]
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Tower of Rubble, Kotor
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 1 November 2010
The crumbled bones of a building rose up, tower some six stories, broken glass and exposed beams, cement like dead flesh. Covered in faded graffiti scribbles, a little bombed-out passage gave a dim glimpse: rubbish piles, sleeping stray cats, green growing from the tumble of rubble, left there as though bombed not some 20 years [...]
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Kotor Fragments
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 2 October 2010
View from the bus Little town tumbling—orange roofs and white walls, a piercing spire poking through. They huddle there, like that, against the flat glass of water and the great grey of the mountains, rising up, behind their shoulders, like a fanged phantom in an old movie. Looking up An opposite feeling from looking down [...]
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The Montenegrin Riviera: Kotor & Budva
Blog: London Cosmopolitan - 30 September 2010
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Day 180: Blazing through Montenegro
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 11 August 2010
One of the coastal villages we passed by on the Montenegran coast Really wasn't much to see in Montenegro. Not one to judge as we only stayed in Kotor for a night and quickly made our way across the Albanian border. May have discovered more if we had our own vehicle and stayed a little while longer, but from our bus ride along the Montenegran coast, passing the main highlights of the country, I
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Kotor, Montenegro: undiscovered natural beauty and history
Blog: Todd's Wanderings - 31 May 2010
The medieval town of Kotor, Montenegro sits at the end of a placid bay that cuts deep into the surrounding limestone mountains. Often called the southernmost fjord in Europe, it is actually a submerged river canyon. Once you arrive in Kotor, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, you’ll have to catch your breath before you can attempt to name the majestic scenery surrounding you. You’ll be surprised that more people haven’t discovered it.
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Man versus Hill in Montenegro
Blog: Twenty-Something Travel - 12 January 2010
As soon as I saw the fortress I began to regret my decision. Whoever had named this a “hill” was a master of understatement. Thick snakes of rock winded ominously around the steep, rocky crag. Built in 535 by the Romans, the rocky fortress must have been bed-wettingly terrifying for any would-be conquerors. Now I’d talked some [...]
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A great idea to climb a fort
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 7 December 2009
Kotor, Budva – August 11th, 2009 I meet Tobias down stairs to go for a trip to Kotor. Chris decides to rest, he’s just staying in to skype his girl back in Melbs. We get to the bus station and buy our tickets, and wait for the bus. Which ultimately isn’t too long – though the bus [...]
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Fly me to The Moon
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 4 November 2009
Just after leaving Venezia Santa Lucia station we passed the Orient Express. Now that looks like the way to travel, I bet there’s no stamping of your ticket necessary on that mudda. One day folks. There are two things I want to try and do in Milan. One is to see the San Siro and [...]
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Fortress of Solitude
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 12 October 2009
The good news this morning is that the teriyaki sauce has come out of my City shirt. Just in time for the next round of Premiership fixtures, goodo. With regards to getting to Tirana it looks like my best shot tomorrow will be just to get the earliest (12:10) bus to Ulcinj on the Montenegro [...]
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Dan and moody Bob
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 11 October 2009
My brekkie consisted of a Swedish buffet, apparently. It looked like a continental breakfast to me, but it was a bloomin’ good one. As I will be back in Western Europe soon prices will be a risin’, so it’s necessary for me to start making concessions when and where appropriate. An easy one is to [...]
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