Boat trip to Sveti Naum monastery

Sveti Naum Monastery I wanted to go to the old monastery Sveti Naum today. It was a 50 min bus ride but I opted for a more pleasant but costlier boat journey on the lake leaving at 1000. It was indeed pleasant in the shade of the top deck cruising past villages and hotels. The […]

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Lakeside town of Ohrid

We went through Albanian exit immigration (perhaps we did) and entered Macedonia around 0400. My passport showed no exit stamp from Montenegro, no Albanian stamps at all and an entry into Macedonia. Go figure!? At around 0530 we pulled into Ohrid station. It was light already. I needed a second layer for the first time […]

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Diving and leaving for Macedonia

Above: Diving Karola wreck in what I consider to be poor visibility. Diving Disappointment As I had a day to kill and didn’t fancy lying on any of Ulcinj’s crowded beaches, I opted to go diving. The attraction was a large wreck but I had to do a check-dive before doing the proper wreck dive. The […]

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Karola Wreck

I had a day to kill in Ulcinj and didn’t fancy lying on any of its crowded beaches. So I opted to dive with D’Olcinium Diving Club.  Little did I know that it would be a complete waste of time and money. Pricing, Options & Equipment They charge EUR25 per dive (up to two dives […]

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Picnic with Ibrahamovic

My host Naser also runs a water taxi and was taking a group of Poles out for a fish picnic. I was invited to join in for EUR25 including wine, raki, drinks etc. I was told to be ready at half-ten. As it turns out, it was half-to-ten (Indonesian style, as I learnt in Papua […]

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Moving down the coast

Above:  I stayed in the old city, high above the crowds (in the background). I left my accommodation at Kotor as late as possible, around 1045, for Ulcinj. I didn’t want to go too early in case the room at Ulcinj wasn’t ready yet. I walked to the bus station and was on the bus […]

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Exploring Kotor, Budva & Perast

Wet Start at Kotor I woke at 0700 to more rain, thunder and lightning. I looked out the door and the weather was like the end of the world. I curled back into bed and wrote the day off. I told myself that the things I had planned are really “more of the same”; not […]

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To the coast

Above:  View of Kotor with cruiseliner; it was very humid with lots of cloud before a long torrential downpour. Buses from Podgorica to Kotor are frequent so I didn’t really need to think about what time I had to go to the station. I went down the road for a coffee and burek for breakfast […]

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St Basil of Ostrog

I had gone to bed around 2130 last night feeling really tired despite a “nothing” day. Hence I woke at 0530 with the sun streaming into my room. I decided to head off early to Ostrog on the 0700 train. As the train pulled away on time, my alarm on my phone rang. I had […]

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Back to the Balkans

Flying with Ryan again The weather changed today. It got cloudy and drizzly with cooler weather; still bearable without a second layer. Kim left about 0700 by metro and train for Brussels’ Zaventem airport bound for Dublin and Chicago. As for me, I’m heading back to the Balkans. I really enjoyed Bosnia Y Herzegovina last […]

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