Hiking the Hills of Podgorica
Hiking from Podgorica to Duklja

Hiking the Hills of Podgorica

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.…

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Modern & Contemporary Art in Podgorica
Works by Vesko Gagović at the Muzeji i Galerije Podgorice (Museums and Galleries of Podgorica

Modern & Contemporary Art in Podgorica

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.

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The Old and New Collide in Podgorica

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.

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Day Trip to Cetinje Part I:Embassy Scavenger Hunt

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…

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In Defense of Podgorica

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…

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10 Vegetarian/Vegan Restaurants in Eastern Europe and The Balkans

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…

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