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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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