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…
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We Take a Little Break
We've been blogging for eighteen months, so we' re taking a little break to come up with a few new things we think you'll love!
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Our Six Picks for Best Tourist Attractions in Vienna
We report on the best of the best in Vienna, a gorgeous city with an impressive art scene and nearly-as-impressive food traditions.
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We Leave Our Hearts in Beautiful Bratislava
We are blown away by Bratislava, a small city on the Danube that has everything you could want in a destination!
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Fighting on the Road: Five Tips
We don't fight often, but when we do, we always fight fair. Here are our five tips to preserve the relationship, even when we're really mad!
