Beautiful Mostar
When we took our trip to Belgrade and Sarajevo, we also stopped in the small town of Mostar in Bosnia-Hercegovina. We took a beautiful train ride from Sarajevo and arrived…
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Balkan Books We Love!
We again combine two favourite things, books and travel, in this roundup of the Balkan books we've enjoyed reading!
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Everything (Else) We Know About Montenegrin History
We continue telling the history of Montenegro and Yugoslavia, from WWI to more or less the present day, in broad strokes.
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Fourteen Things You Didn’t Know about Montenegro
Montenegro is a young country, and there's lots we didn't know when we arrived. We share what we've learned about its geography and people!
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The Best of Belgrade
We've just spent a wee while in Belgrade, a gorgeous city that is not just like any other European capital. It might even be better than most!
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Cats of Kotor: Photo Essay and Love Story
By popular request, here are a whole bunch of pictures of the cats of Kotor. But to make it seemly, we’ve also added some information about them. That way, you…
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Make the Effort to Visit Pretty Perast, Montenegro
Sometimes called ‘the Venice of the Balkans’, Perast is a very short bus ride from Kotor, and well worth the trip. We recently spent a day there, enjoying the palazzi,…
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Kotor’s Old Town: We are Charmed By the Cute
We’re here for the history, frankly: that’s why we chose Kotor over several other pretty Montenegrin places on the water. So what’s so great about Kotor’s Old Town? Walls enclose…
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Risan’s Roman Mosaics and an Illyrian Warrior Queen!
You may recall from our brief history of Montenegro that the area where we live along the Adriatic coast was of interest to the ancient Greeks and Romans. We only…
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Everything We Know About Montenegrin History (And More)
One of the pleasures of traveling to a place we’ve never been is learning its history and culture. For Montenegrin history we had only the haziest sense of the place…
