From the UK Daily Telegraph (link: http://bit.ly/fTbYB4) Although I am usually grateful that Montenegro is being covered in the news, I do wish it wasn’t always the same story. “New Riviera, the coast, sunshine, Marilyn Monroe and property values”. In 6 years I must have read versions of this article 30 times, in various publications. It… [Read more…]
At long last! The iconic island of Sveti Stefan will be re-opening in June 2011 as an exclusive Aman resort hotel. In 2010 Aman reopened nearby Vila Milocer but work on the island dragged into its 5th year. The painstaking work was partly delayed by the global recession but also by the difficulties of working… [Read more…]
A gale has been blowing through the Boka Kotorska for the last 2 days. When the wind switches to the NE in winter the result is the Bura. Gusts of up to 200km an hour hammer through the Verige straits and curl around the outer bay. The steep sides of Orijen mountain massif above Herceg… [Read more…]
Montenegro prides itself on being the world’s ‘first ecological state’. Montenegro signed ‘the Declaration of ecological state’ in Zabljak on 20th September 1991. According to the declaration: “by establishing the state relation with the nature, the Montenegrin Assembly committed all generations to refer to nature as to the health source and inspiration for freedom, as… [Read more…]
Through ‘Montenegro Adventures’ I want to share stories and about this amazing country. A country on the verge of Europe but unknown to so many. As recently as 2006, a survey in the UK showed that more than 50% of people questioned, thought that Montenegro was in South America! It’s not. One well known internet mileage… [Read more…]
March 14, 2011
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