Montenegro 10: Viewpoints, Spomeniks & A Monastery

The original plan was to go to Pluลพine via the northern section of the scenic Durmitor Ring drive and leave via the southern section, but I did a bit of a Google on this road and decided I did not have the necessary nerves for this endeavour. People in forums who described themselves as confident [...]

Montenegro 9: A Day In Pluลพine

I've been learning how to pronounce Montenegrin place names by simply wildly mispronouncing them in front of Montenegrins. This isn't deliberate โ€” I'm not trying to be disrespectful โ€” it just so happens that my best guess is usually laughably inaccurate. So far people have just been gently correcting me with a smile and I [...]

Montenegro 8: Tara Canyon & Black Lake

We need to talk about burek. I could eat this shit all day. It's a flaky pastry stuffed with meat, or spinach, or cheese, or whatever. We first had it in Virpazar, little cheese and spinach triangles and tiny cheese spirals. But this morning our host baked a massive cheese spiral for breakfast and it [...]

Montenegro 7: Onwards To Tara Canyon

The reason I wanted us to camp here within the Biogradska Gora National Park was because I knew it'd be chaos when the day trippers were here. I wanted us to experience the calm when they left which I'm sure Tarrant did but I was too busy with my head down the toilet. At least [...]

Montenegro 6: Heading North To Biogradska Gora

I'm really enjoying Montenegro but I feel like learning road etiquette would be so much less stressful if other drivers weren't so impatient. You can take the calmest, most rational person in the world but as soon as you put them behind the wheel of a car they become filled with the Rage of a [...]

Montenegro 5: Lake Skadar

We booked our lake cruise on Get Your Guide before arriving in Montenegro because I wanted to make sure we got one. I needn't have worried, this place consists entirely of people trying to sell you a boat tour. You've got everything from one-man bands who don't really speak English to full outfits with staff [...]

Montenegro 4: Bar To Virpazar

The plan this morning was to go for a swim in a nearby river followed by a little jaunt up to a waterfall for more swimming. Possibly the kind of swimming that would cryogenically freeze all of your organs but the days were sticky and hot so we'd probably relish these few minutes of cold. [...]

Montenegro 3: Bar & Around

Today we'd be driving to Bar. Or I'd be driving, Tarrant would be sitting in the passenger seat periodically reminding me that we're meant to be driving on the right and also I have a whole car to the right of me and she'd thank me to remember that when considering my road positioning. We [...]

Montenegro 2: Obligatory Beach Day

We got a relatively early start on Monday on account of The Chores. Supermarkets don't open on Sundays in Montenegro (convenience shops do so don't panic, you can still buy beers) so we wanted to get some grocery shopping done in the morning, plus we needed some camping gas for the few nights we'd planned [...]