Safely through the Albanian/Montenegrin Border, towing the caravan behind us, we realised no-one asked us about Stella and we certainly hadn’t volunteered any information on her or her Spanish Passport. Our goal was to return to Kamp Naluka, stay a couple of nights to sort ourselves out as to what we needed to cross into […]
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Camp Life – Spain / Croatia / Montenegro /Albania
Father, it’s been two weeks since my last confession. Sorry, wrong religion and wrong story! It’s been two weeks since we arrived in Shkoder, Albania. Now in a campsite with a constant stream of neighbours and conversation opportunities for Steve, I’ve been reflecting on our previous campsites, their locations and our lifestyle experiences. Spain – […]
Read MoreGoodbye Montenegro – Hello Albania
We hadn’t realised we’d been in Montenegro eight weeks as our time there had flown so fast staying at camp site Naluka, enjoying touring before the weather got too scorchio and the many interesting people we met whilst there and along the way. Firstly, we’d like to thank Dušan, our campsite owner at Naluka, for his […]
Read MoreBiogradska Gora Forest – At its Heart!
Biogradska Gora is a forest and a national park in Montenegro within the Kolašin municipality, one of UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves and the last of the three remaining large virgin rainforests in Europe. Having driven for most of the day, we thought we would find the entrance to the forest and then look […]
Read MoreDurmitor – Lord of ‘The Ring’
So I thought I’d get my bit in first this time and give you the driver’s “View from the cockpit”. The Durmitor Ring is a 76k circular route through some of the most spectacular mountainous regions of Montenegro. We drove up from the 1450m town of Zabljak, to a maximum height of 1,950 m, which […]
Read MoreTara Canyon White Water Rafting
And Stella came too! Yesterday’s News Strops, Hissy Fits and ugly, ugly Walking boots Today’s News Waking up on our second morning in Žabljak , if I thought yesterday’s body count on the floor was impressive, today’s of varying colours and sizes was darn right revolting. Urghh, yuk, going to buy another can of bug killer […]
Read MoreDurmitor’s Black Lake
Yesterday’s Heat Wobbly is today’s Walking Boots’ Hissy Fits Durmitor National Park comprises 39,000 acres, is surrounded by the two rivers Piva and Tara, has 23 mountain tops over 2300 meters in altitude and 82 km of the Tara Canyon which has an altitude of 1600 meters above river level. Since 1980 both the Park […]
Read MoreOstrog Monastery
This was the beginning of our five day adventure in the north in Montenegro in the Poacher, leaving our caravan in the safe hands of Dušan, campsite owner of Naluka . Ostrog is a Monastery and Church complex dug into the Ostroska Greda Mountain which is 900 meters above sea level. On our travels, at […]
Read MoreWhat the Hell Was That?
A fellow camper reverses into our caravan. We’d arranged for an early start last Monday morning (21st June) to travel to the Ina Garage at Tivat airport, the only place in Montenegro (apparently) to get our portable camping gas recharged. We wanted to get this done before our trip the following day Tuesday (22nd June) […]
Read MoreSustainable Tourism – Kotor Tourist Office
By no means am I expert on recycling, but when I was asked by Ivana (wife of Captain Ivan) who works at the Kotor Tourist Office to help her write an article on sustainable tourism, which included the campsite Autocamp Naluka where we are staying, I was delighted and of course I said ‘yes’. Ivana […]
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