Podgorica is one world capital in which I never stepped foot on public transportation.
Hiking from Podgorica to Duklja My excitement level was at a 10. I was boarding my Montenegro Airlines flight to Podgorica, a city I love, and I was soon to be reunited with Mladen and Kokolo, two awesome guys I met on my previous stay at Montenegro Hostel.…
I was given some the worst travel advice I ever received while researching my trip to Podgorica. I started a thread on a travel forum asking where I could find the best modern and contemporary art in Podgorica/Montenegro and the answers were rather disheartening.
The juxtaposition of the old and the new has always fascinated me while traveling. In the United States, especially in New York, everything feels new, and by new I mean nothing feels more than 100 years old. This is partly due to the fact that anything related to the Native Americans, who inhabited this land before European immigrants arrived, has been systematically removed from the landscape.
Podgorica became the capital of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro (a state within Yugoslavia) on July 13, 1946; the city at that time had been renamed Titograd in honor of the Yugoslav President Josip Tito. Before Titograd/Podgorica had been named the capital city the title had been bestowed…
There’s a lot more to do in Cetinje than hunt down former embassies (link to previous post); it really is a marvel that this erstwhile capital has remained under the radar from the hordes of tourists on the Montenegrin coast. The city is small enough to walk…
There’s no denying it: Podgorica has a bad rap. As one of the least visited European capitals, I read travel blogs that dubbed it a “shithole” and “the most boring capital in Europe.” A visit to TripAdvisor had people scratching their heads why I even wanted to go…
That Will Have You Asking for Second Helpings I was recently reading one of my favorites travel blogger’s posts on the decline in quality of Lonely Planet guidebooks over at Nomadic Matt and I found myself agreeing wholeheartedly. As a vegetarian of over two decades I find their…