Visiting Tivat, Montenegro isn’t on most traveller’s “must do” lists. Tivat doesn’t have a beautifully preserved Old Town like Budva, and its downtown isn’t remarkable. But Justin and I have a real soft spot for Tivat, which served as our home-away-from-home for three months last year (and a month and a half the year previous). For […]
Memory’s a funny thing. A large chunk of my PhD work was spent analyzing how and why people remember what they remember. And thinking back over the places Justin and I journeyed in 2016, I find myself marveling at the clarity with which I can recall this past year. Maybe the reason is something like Nabokov’s […]
Hillary and I had already joined Green Visions for a hiking tour of the Highlands and Lukomir Village in Bosnia and Herzegovina and had been impressed, not only with the scenery and cultural insight, but, with the service, the attitude, and the attention to detail of the guides. So, we were ready to see if […]
I’ll be the first to confess, I’ve got a classic introvert’s dislike for crowds of strangers. Which is maybe why I have such a soft place in my heart for off-season and shoulder season travel. Some people would lament the fact that they were in Montenegro in December, when it was too cold to lounge on the […]
In Montenegro, where the population of the capital city, Podgorica, is less than half that of our hometown, Long Beach, California (roughly 500,000 people), finding certain amenities can, occasionally, prove challenging. No, I’m not talking about 24 hour pharmacies or grocery stores the size of baseball fields. I’m talking about something that really matters…I’m sure you guessed it: movie theaters. Yes, […]
Montenegro is an unbelievably beautiful country, but its capital city, Podgorica, doesn’t get much love. Most visitors don’t bother to spend time looking for things to see and do in Podgorica in the first place. They just head straight from the airport to the coast or the UNESCO city of Kotor. And as for those […]
