Twenty-SomethingTravel

Serbia in Pictures

So wow, I guess my post on Belgrade last week was kind of dark. Everything I wrote was genuine, but there were also a lot of things I saw in Serbia that were downright charming.  Here are some of the neat things I saw there: The Cathedral of St. Sava. The Belgradians have been slowly building [...]

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Notes from the Homefront: How much is Too Much (Planning)? Plus! My Itinerary

So I’ve been planning to take this round-the-world trip since last June, but it only occurred to me around January that I should probably start PLANNING this round-the-world trip.  I was then faced with a decision: how much of this trip needs to be planned out? And how? Obviously I will need to plan ahead of [...]

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Bombs Over Belgrade

If I were to sum up Belgrade in one word, it would be “gritty.” After an amazing couple of weeks in elegant Bosnia and relaxing Montenegro it was a shock to the system to be dropped in the center of hot, urban Belgrade. Also a shock: I’d encountered my fair share of bombed out buildings in Bosnia, and [...]

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Montenegro in Pictures

After a lovely week in Bosnia I took the bus down to Montenegro, one of the world’s newest countries. We headed straight for the stunning Adriatic coast and the charming town of Budva. Tiny Montenegro has been an independent country for less that four years. It was the last of the former Yugoslavian nations to break [...]

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Man versus Hill in Montenegro

As soon as I saw the fortress I began to regret my decision. Whoever had named this a “hill” was a master of understatement. Thick snakes of rock winded ominously around the steep, rocky crag. Built in 535 by the Romans, the rocky fortress must have been bed-wettingly terrifying for any would-be conquerors. Now I’d talked some [...]

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