What better way to spend the last morning of our honeymoon than walking up about 1300 steps to a ruin? Tarrant had opinions about pretty much every aspect of this endeavour as did my leg muscles after yesterday's impromptu climb up a bell tower. We got up early to start climbing at 8am to beat [...]
I love public buses. No, wait, that's a complete lie. I love public buses in countries that aren't the UK. I get a lot of joy out of using public transport whilst travelling but if I've got to do it back home I find it overpriced and unreliable. Y'know, all those things I don't give [...]
We had a bit of time to kill this morning on account of the fact the car didn't need to be back until 2pm. We'd planned to drive the utterly batshit Serpentine road into Kotor but we'd done that the previous day to beat the weather and fuck me, I am so glad we did. [...]
I like to get up early on holiday to go and Do The Things. It took a while for Tarrant to get used to this but, after some initial protesting in the early days of our relationship, I brought her round to it. A little gentle coffee-related coaxing and we're generally on our way before [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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