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Accommodation Review: Villa Vita, Montenegro
Blog: Pommie Travels - 3 May 2012
If you can’t afford the pricey Sveti Stefan, playground of the rich and famous, thankfully there’s another equally lovely place [...]
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Boat trip to Our Lady of The Rocks, Montenegro
Blog: Pommie Travels - 19 April 2012
A short boat ride from Kotor across ‘Europe’s Southernmost Fjord’ are two islets- Our Lady of The Rocks and Sveti [...]
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Hiking the Montenegro Mountains to Gornja Lastva
Blog: Pommie Travels - 13 April 2012
If you like outdoor activities, Montenegro’s landscape is ideal for activities such as hiking, mountain biking, canyoning, kayaking, sailing and [...]
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Inside Sveti Stefan, Montenegro’s Island Hotel
Blog: Pommie Travels - 12 April 2012
South of Budva, the private island hotel of Sveti Stefan was once the Adriatic playground of the rich and famous [...]
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Beautiful Kotor, Montenegro- A Photo Essay
Blog: Pommie Travels - 11 April 2012
The entire old town of Kotor, together with the fortifications and the Bay of Kotor, forms part of a UNESCO World [...]
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Montenegro, You Surprised Me!
Blog: Pommie Travels - 10 April 2012
In all honesty, my knowledge of Montenegro before I arrived was pretty minimal. I knew it was small. I [...]
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Daily Wanderlust: Kotor, Montenegro
Blog: The Adventures of D - 5 April 2012
Daily Wanderlust: Kotor, MontenegroI always knew as soon as I got to the Adriatic Sea in my travels, I would feel invigorated again. It’s not easy to travel solo for months on end, [...]d travels 'round
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Vagabond Hiker Scholar – Francis Tapon
Blog: Vagobond.com - 21 January 2012
If there is a modern day heir to the great traveler/scholar Ibn Batutta - I would say that Francis Tapon is the guy. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Balkan border hopping to Montenegro
Blog: La Tortuga Viajera - 9 December 2011
Have you heard about Montenegro? For most of us, the name probably rings a Yugoslavian bell. That’s because the miniature nation formed part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, most recently under the name of “Serbia and Montenegro”. But in 2006, the Montenegrins voted for independence, and since then they’ve been making a name for [...]
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So I went to three countries last week
Blog: La Tortuga Viajera - 19 October 2011
Last week, Spain celebrated El Día de la Hispanidad, AKA Spain Day, AKA my birthday! To pay tribute to the Spanish holiday (OK, maybe my birthday), my mom came from the US and we headed to Croatia. Our one-stop trip to Dubrovnik turned into a three-country tour of the Balkans. Yeah. So while I play [...]
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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 Budva
Blog: A Lady in London - 22 September 2011
It rained in Budva. After almost a week of sweltering weather on my Balkans trip, I traveled to Budva, Montenegro on a 25-minute bus ride from Kotor, and found myself under stormy skies. I didn’t want the clouds to spoil my visit to the famous walled town on the Adriatic Sea, though. With a positive attitude, [...]
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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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10 ways to kick Travel Fatigue’s ass
Blog: The Adventures of D - 26 August 2011
There was a time a little more than a year ago, when I hated traveling. After doing it for more than five months, being sick for what seemed like the millionth time, being cramped into a dorm room in blistering heat with no air-conditioning, fearing for my life in Turkey and nearly falling to my [...]
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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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Transit Fragments: Views from the Window
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 28 October 2010
I. Bar to Ulcinj Gypsy children at the intersection bang on the windows of stopped cars, pleading / until the windows roll up and they see their reflections, / dirt-faced and pleading back. II. Ulcinj to Shkoder Carry that girl through the rubbish and field of dead, the rusted carcasses of cars, engineless and humming [...]
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Boys, Boys, Boys: A Solo Female Traveler’s Experience With the Men of Southern Italy, Montenegro and Albania
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 26 October 2010
“Southern Italy, eh?” He gave me the raised eyebrow of caution. “Watch out for the men.” This was Alex, his voice lifting above the roar of hair dryers and hip music at the salon, two days before I left on my trip. A lady friend of his, he continued, had recently spent several weeks in [...]
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My Own Private Ulcinj
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 4 October 2010
A beachtown in October is a haunted thing. Umbrellas folded and lounge chairs stacked, soda machines unplugged and a chilled air of desolation—packed up and shut down, another season over, as the clouds thicken and the waters dull. Ulcinj is as mangy and lazy as a street dog. It has the restless wind of a [...]
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Sveti Stefan, Forbidden Island
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 3 October 2010
In a little cove on the Montenegro coast, cleaved between staggers of rock and water clear as glass, I’ve discovered what is simultaneously the most beautiful and depressing place I’ve never been: Sveti Stefan. A little jumble of terracotta roofs, grey stone buildings that look like they were carved right out the rock, a couple [...]
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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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Trains versus buses — which is better? (The List)
Blog: The Adventures of D - 29 September 2010
Given the fantastic experiences I had on the trains through the Balkans, I decided to write-up a pros/cons list of taking the bus versus taking the train. Both can be good. Both can be bad. Often times, at least in the Balkans, trains are the less expensive option, so when watching the budget, they are [...]
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Montenegro: home to Europe’s most spectacular scenery?
Blog: 501 Places - 23 September 2010
Montenegro is one of those places that rarely makes the news. Even in the Yugoslav war it remained largely unaffected, siding firmly with the Serbs before quietly voting for independence in 2006 for the first time in almost a century. The James Bond film ‘Casino Royale’ was supposed to be set here; although it is [...]Montenegro: home to Europe’s most spectacular scenery? is a post from: 501 Places
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Snapshots: 巴爾幹半島 Balkans
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 15 September 2010
Rovinj, a picturesque town on the Istrian coast. Pink & violet are signature colours of the Croatian sunset. Boats docked at Rovinj's harbour, Croatia White graves of those who gave their lives in the Bosnian conflict. Different years of birth, same year of death. Golden statue of Bill Clinton rising before the proud phrase: "No Negotiation. Self Determination!", a strong reminder
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Behind the crowds: people watching in the Balkans
Blog: 501 Places - 11 September 2010
One of the greatest pleasures of travelling through the western Balkan region was the fact that as tourists we were always given our own space to observe, experience and interact if and when we were happy to do so. I mean this as a contrast to those many places where as a visitor from western [...]Behind the crowds: people watching in the Balkans is a post from: 501 Places
