Another summer another vacation. This year on the list for vacation was Montenegro because of two reasons. First, I haven’t been there since 1996 (10 years) and second to explore the newest independent country in region. So together the “travel team” Me, Agne, Dovile and Jeton decided to start the engine of Volkswagen Golf II and start the journey.

First impressions sent me 10 years back when I saw the border in Montenegro, the border police didn’t even check anything and just let us proceed with our way. So nothing changed!

But, wait a minute, there is one thing that really changed, the New Montenegro Tunnel build in very European Standards which cost 2.5 EUR to pass was really impressive and also save you plenty of time on travel around 44 KM.

This time we decided that first target will be Budva, a well known place for having vacation, on the way to Budva we stopped to St. Stefan old coty very very busy but very nice, we spent some time there, turned the engine again and on the way to Budva again.

Budva needs improvements, need more roads and need some infrastructure to manage all tourists, we stayed for 2 hours in car queue, too much traffic, too busy, at the end we found a way to escape which leads you to Kotor and Herceg Novi cities. We stopped for a drink in Kotor, the place was good except the small beach they have, so we told ourselves to stop in Budva on the way back.

We got back to Budva, and spent time there, in the mean time we spent time also in other places called Ulcinj (Ulqin) and St.Stefan.

Beaches and accomodation were ok, not that good as we had last year in Saranda. Ok, since I didn’t check on internet for more regarding Montenegro, I was fooled by BBC and CNN advertisements on Montenegro, but it weren’t that English that we expected. You get stock if you only speak English, so with our Serbo-Croatian language skills we managed to communicate, Albanian language is not welcomed there yet, a friend of mine from Podgorica told me that Montenegro bar owners made a criteria for waiters to know English, Serbo-Croatian and Albanian language, well it wasn’t like that at all or maybe we were into a wrong place.

What really disturbed me in the beach (even was private) was people trying to get money photographing kids with large snakes and other animals, such as pony with jeans (Diesel) and monkeys.
I saw lifeguards passing around monitoring the sea, why they don’t demonstrate how they would act if someone is in troubles. Probably they need a creative manager :) maybe I was so much influenced by reading 5 issues of Wired Magazine that I took with me.

But, the vacation was great since I was with people i like so much; thanks to Agne my vacation was excellent. Even if it was raining all the time I would enjoy. Thanks to Jeton and Dovile for controversy discussions we had. It was more brain releasing thing.

When I got back to Prishtina I’ve got a book I’ve ordered early from Amazon.co.uk, “Fast Company’s Greatest Hits: Ten Years of the Most Innovative Ideas in Business” waiting for me, so I will enjoy reading it now.

Apart for being in Montenegro, we also spent one day in Prizren and around. Most of the time I was away from internet and I was accessible only through my Pocket PC, but phone system was disabled until yesterday.

Vacation was nice
Nice is Good