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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

Outboard Motor, Shopping, Bends, Views and Wild Horses Shortly after arriving in Montenegro, Steve and I went out in Teddy to the edge of the Bay as we wanted to collect live mussels to use as fishing bait.  No sooner had we gotten out of our islet to hug the shore between us and the […]

Having spent an amazing couple of days and nights at Virpazar, staying at Marko’s Country House, packed two bottles of his Prevalis red wine into our luggage, been spoilt with yet another outstanding delicious Montenegrin typical breakfast and filled our water bottles from the fresh spring, it was time to return to base camp Naluka. […]

After our first night’s sleep at the beautiful Country House Djurisic, we both woke up feeling a little bit itchy.  During the afternoon of check-in, Marko asked if we would like a blanket for our bed as there was just a sheet. Worried about temperature dropping at night we said we would. After attending to […]