How to Eat All the Seafood in Montenegro
As you may have been able to tell from all the pictures, we’re right by the shore in Kotor. And that means tons and tons of fresh seafood. Which we…
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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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Bowled Over By Balkan Booze!
As you may remember, we are fond of the occasional tipple. And the Balkans are full of them, with enough variety to suit every taste. We’ll cover the basics, in…
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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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Grocery Shopping in Kotor: We Find the Goods
If you’ve read some of our previous posts, you know that one of us grew up working in a grocery store. So one of his great pleasures is to inspect…
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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…
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First Impressions of Kotor (the Other City by the Bay)
We spent much of the ninety minute ride from Podgorica (the capital of Montenegro) learning how to pronounce Podgorica (PUHD-gehr-it-seh, more or less). And oohing and aahing about the mountains…
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We Live Here Now: Kotor, Montenegro
We’re in Kotor, Montenegro for two months, during what turns out to be the low season. And that’s fine by us: restaurants are not crowded, people are friendlier, and the…
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We’re Back! (and More Meandering Than Ever)
We’re back, refreshed and rested from our time in Oxford – where we caught up with friends, read, wrote, ate meat pies, and enjoyed the Thames Valley miasma. It was…
