Category Archives: Montenegro

The Millionaire Translators of Montenegro

Posted on 2018-02-13 by Andreas Moser

Zur deutschen Fassung dieser Geschichte. Tivat is different from the rest of Montenegro: more glitzy, more shiny, more expensive, more show-off. All the things I don’t like. I only go there regularly because I am trying to visit the Maritime … Continue reading →

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Turn left at the Cat

Posted on 2018-01-24 by Andreas Moser

In Montenegro, hiking trails are not only marked with colors (always red and white, but I am not sure if that means that all the trails are connected). In addition, wherever the path forks, cats are positioned whose job is … Continue reading →

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Good evening from Kotor

Posted on 2018-01-19 by Andreas Moser

I have already described one way for the people of Kotor to witness the sunset: to climb up Mount Vrmac, the mountain that stretches into the Bay of Kotor from the left in the first two photos. The other possibility … Continue reading →

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All paths lead to Lovćen

Posted on 2018-01-18 by Andreas Moser

Photographed during the hike on Vrmac.

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Video: A Chapel in the Mountains

Posted on 2018-01-17 by Andreas Moser

Hiking in Montenegro, there is always something to discover, even deep in the mountains. But more often than not, the places have long been deserted. Did you notice how perfectly I synchronized the music to the action? On my first … Continue reading →

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Breakfast for Birds

Posted on 2018-01-14 by Andreas Moser

Photographed in Kotor, Montenegro.

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Red Star

Posted on 2018-01-12 by Andreas Moser

“OK, we’ll tear down the old houses, put up a high-rise building and sell expensive apartments. Long live capitalism! But don’t touch the monument with the Red Star, comrades!” (Photographed in Tivat, Montenegro.)

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Random Thoughts (20)

Posted on 2018-01-11 by Andreas Moser

If you care neither about the deficit, nor about providing public services, it’s actually quite easy to cut taxes. When I saw books by Džon Grišam at the bookshop in Montenegro, I was happy that my name wouldn’t have to be … Continue reading →

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The Cross and the Star

Posted on 2018-01-10 by Andreas Moser

In Yugoslavia, the Socialist star and the Christian cross got along quite well, it seems. (Photographed in the cemetery of Velji Zalazi near Kotor, Montenegro.)

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Vrmac – where you get drunk from hiking

Posted on 2018-01-06 by Andreas Moser

Zur deutschen Fassung dieses Artikels. The only disadvantage about Kotor is its location in a fjord, surrounded by steep mountains, which to cross takes the sun a few cumbersome hours every morning while it already warms people and spirits elsewhere … Continue reading →

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