One of the highlights of our journey through Romania last summer was the area of Bucovina with its painted monasteries built in the 15th and 16th century, which have earned their place as UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites since 1993. What make these monasteries unique in the world are their painted murals – on both the […]
AUSTRALIA: EXPLORING THE WEST MACDONNELL RANGES
Our big round trip through the central, eastern and southern part of Australia started from Adelaide where we hired an Apollo 2-berth camper that would be our home for the next 67 days. The first part of our journey was a real adventure in this time of the year: traveling through the outback to the […]
CHERNOBYL – 26 YEARS AFTER
During our stay in Ukraine this summer, we also visited the Chernobyl museum in Kyiv, where we learned more about the catastrophic nuclear accident that happened on April 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. As this place is not far away from Kyiv, we decided to book an excursion and visit the “Chernobyl Exclusion […]
KIEV, UKRAINE: CITY OF GOLDEN DOMES AND GREEN PARKS
During our tour through Eastern Europe this summer, we also visited Kiev (in Ukrainian called Kyiv), the capital of Ukraine. Kiev has around three million inhabitants and is situated on the right bank of the Dnjepr river. The best way to explore the city is the metro with its beautiful underground stations in Socialist Realistic design. […]
PODGORICA WALKING TOUR
Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, is not the most beautiful place in the country, but the city is definitely worth a visit, due to its interesting mix of old and new, its café culture and nightlife and its Mediterranean atmosphere. I have often acted as a guide for my foreign guests and in order to […]
PARKING IN PODGORICA
In Podgorica, traffic is chaotic, the streets are overcrowded and traffic jams are frequent. Pedestrians pass the streets wherever they can and don’t pay regard to the traffic lights (which is quite understandable, as at some places the green light lasts only 10 seconds or so). Drivers do not obey the regulations, jump the red […]
INDIAN SUMMER ON MOUNT LOVĆEN
The last weekend, warm and sunny, was an excellent opportunity to make a tour around the Lovćen National Park and enjoy the beautiful autumn colours of the beech forests and the spectacular view from the rotunda of Njegoš’s mausoleum on the summit of Jezerski Vrh. We took the road from Cetinje to Ivanova Korita and then […]
BIRDWATCHING IN THE DANUBE DELTA
One of the highlights of my journey through Eastern Europe this summer was a birdwatching tour in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, which is situated in the eastern part of Romania. This area has the third largest biodiversity in the world (over 5,500 flora and fauna species) and is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage […]
PODGORICA: SHADOWS OF GREY
Prefabricated buildings are perhaps one of the most widespread legacies of communism. Entering or leaving any city from Tirana to St. Petersburg, from Podgorica to Kyev and Odessa, visitors have to make their way through suburbs filled with unattractive grey concrete housing blocks. After World War II, panel factories were built everywhere in the East European […]
JEGOR’S PATH: A HIKING TOUR ON THE COAST
After the long hot summer season, October is a good time to make a hiking tour through the coastal mountains of Paštrovačka Gora and enjoy the panorama of the Budva Riviera. We made the tour from the monastery of Praskvica to Čelobrdo along the path called “Jegorov put”, which was hand-made by the one-armed Russian […]