I'm here at the airport in Podgorica, Montenegro on as layover, and have a few observations.
1. Internet access is free and unsecured here, just as God intended it to be. As free as the air we breathe. The legendary Balkan hospitality strikes! How did we in the overdeveloped West ever allow ourselve to be suckered into paying for internet access at airports?
2. The plane flight from Frankfurt to Montenegro is jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Especially the descent into Podgorica, which takes you over a chain of modest mountains to a lush plain interspersed with modest, attractive cottages and silvery canals.
3. Apparently, you can use the Euro in most Balkan countries.
4. Brownie is spelled 'Brauni' here.
5. Montenegrans smoke a lot, but less than I expected.
That's all for now. But if free, unsecured Internet access turns out to be a Balkan-wide phenomenon, I'll be posting regularly.
1. Internet access is free and unsecured here, just as God intended it to be. As free as the air we breathe. The legendary Balkan hospitality strikes! How did we in the overdeveloped West ever allow ourselve to be suckered into paying for internet access at airports?
2. The plane flight from Frankfurt to Montenegro is jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Especially the descent into Podgorica, which takes you over a chain of modest mountains to a lush plain interspersed with modest, attractive cottages and silvery canals.
3. Apparently, you can use the Euro in most Balkan countries.
4. Brownie is spelled 'Brauni' here.
5. Montenegrans smoke a lot, but less than I expected.
That's all for now. But if free, unsecured Internet access turns out to be a Balkan-wide phenomenon, I'll be posting regularly.
According to wikipedia, Montenegro and Kosovo have unilaterally adopted the euro as their sole currency. I don't think it's accepted nearly as widely in places like Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria etc.
Posted by: psychopompous | February 25, 2010 at 04:33 AM