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Over one year ago, for various reasons, I decided to buy the car of a friend of mine in the city of Bar, in Southern Montenegro. This used to be the biggest harvour of Yugoslavia, and today is the third largest city of Montenegro, a country which is still not yet 10 years old.
One of the conditions for buying the car was returning each January to renew all the documentation of the car. No-one knew how long it would take. So on Jan 22nd I left early from Moscow to Bar, driving through Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia and Bosnia. They were 3100km (about 2000 miles), which I did in 4 days, spending nights in Daugavpils (LV), Rzeszów (PL) and Belgrade (SRB).
Bar is a lovely city, where I have many friends. I rented a small place in next to the Adriatic Place. Imagine any resort town in January. Is boring as hell.
In the following five days, I finished all the paperwork of my car, but didn’t recieve the documentation back: had to wait 10 more days for it. I could drive as much as I wanted inside Montenegro, but wasn’t allow to take my car out of the country.
I planned waiting there 10 days, but on saturday (6 days after having arrived to Bar), rain made me feel bored and left to the capital city, Podgorica.
Podgorica is neither a nice nor an interesting city, and having been there a few times, there is nothing much to see in more than 3 hours. The beauty of this country is the rural áreas and the seaside. I met a british guy in my hotel there, and he offered me to share expenses doing a road trip to different points of the small Montenegrin map.
Starting on monday, we drove almost 1000km, visiting 22 of the 23 Municipalities of the country, just avoiding Bijelo Polje which I had visited before. Here, a few images from this trip. We spent the first night in Šavnik, the second in Andrijevica, the third in Cetinje and the fourth in Herceg Novi.
01 Montenegrin Road Map
02 Important Orthodox Monastery, outside Danilovgrad, in the road towards Nikšić
03 Northern Mountains, close to Plužine
04 Sometimes you need a bigger 4WD car, or sometimes you are lucky enough to find a tractor willing to help you. Municipality of Šavnik
05 Durmitor National Park and amazing Tara River, by Žabljak
06 Turkish coffee in the bridge over the Tara River Canyon, in Pljevlja (Most na Đurđevića Tari). Coffees to remember
07 Island of Saint Stephan, next to Budva
08 Church of Saint Elijah (Црква Светог Илије), Zagora, Municipality of Kotor
On the last day, in Kotor, I got an e-mail asking me to return back to work on monday. As the car documents were not ready, I decided to fly to Moscow for a week and return later for my car.
Montenegro has three airports: Podgorica (TGD/LYPG), Tivat (TIV/LYTV) and Berane (IVG/LYBR). The last one has no flights.
TGD has no flight to Moscow, as YM suspended the flight YM600/1 to DME replacing it just for the YM610/1 on the route TIV-DME-TIV.
Options leaving TGD were JU, AZ, TK or OS.
TIV has a daily flight to SVO (SU), 6 weekly to DME (S7), 1 weekly (U6) and 5 weekly (YM). Besides, also 6 weekly to BEG by JU and 10 weekly by YM. SU flights are in S95, S7 in 738, U6 in 321 and YM in 195.
By prices, the best option was JU on the TIV-BEG-SVO route. I bought the flight in no time on airserbia.com and 12 hours later, I was in Kotor bus station taking a bus to Tivat City, and the driver droped me on the E80 route just outisde the airport.
Other options I also checked were BEG, DBV, SPU, OMO and SJJ, even TIA. TIV was the cheapest and the shortest connection.
Flight: Air Serbia JU-183
Route: Tivat – Belgrade “Nikola Tesla” (TIV-BEG)
Date: 06FEB2016
Scheduled Time: 1510-1615. Schedule duration: 1h05m
Real real departure: 1505 (departure LYTV RWY 32).
Real real arrival: 1549 (landing LYBG RWY 12). Real duration: 0h54m
Aircraft: ATR 72-202(MSN 180). Constructed for JAT Airways in June 1990, added to Air Serbia in 2013
Reg: YU-ALN (oldest aircraft on JU fleet, over 25 years old)
Seat: 03A – Economy (no Business offered)
LF: 40%
Check in was fast. The lady told me not to got through departure until YM and S7 flights had already departed (both were leaving at 14:30). So I spent some time on my computer. TIV offers free wifi.
09 Tivat Airport , Municipality Tivat
10 Tivat Airport Entrance. Passengers of YM and S7
11 Check In area. 12 desks: 1 and 2 for JU, 4 and 5 for YM, 7, 8 and 9 for S7 and 10, 11 and 12 for SU.
12 Ticket agencies, SU and S7
13 Boarding Pass to Moscow, with the logo of Aerodromi Crne Gore (Montenegrin Airports).
14 Passport stamp, and security check. No time here.
15 Empty terminal. Duty Free (Dufry), where I was last year, and bought also the same perfume for myself.
16 Boring FIDS. No flights scheduled till the following morning.
17 No jetways as well. Just walk to the airport.
18 Another ATR72 from Air Serbia (YU-ALP) with crew practicing take off and landings.
19 and 20 Our aircraft, YU-ALN. ATR72-200 are only accessed by the back door in the left
One of the conditions for buying the car was returning each January to renew all the documentation of the car. No-one knew how long it would take. So on Jan 22nd I left early from Moscow to Bar, driving through Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia and Bosnia. They were 3100km (about 2000 miles), which I did in 4 days, spending nights in Daugavpils (LV), Rzeszów (PL) and Belgrade (SRB).
Bar is a lovely city, where I have many friends. I rented a small place in next to the Adriatic Place. Imagine any resort town in January. Is boring as hell.
In the following five days, I finished all the paperwork of my car, but didn’t recieve the documentation back: had to wait 10 more days for it. I could drive as much as I wanted inside Montenegro, but wasn’t allow to take my car out of the country.
I planned waiting there 10 days, but on saturday (6 days after having arrived to Bar), rain made me feel bored and left to the capital city, Podgorica.
Podgorica is neither a nice nor an interesting city, and having been there a few times, there is nothing much to see in more than 3 hours. The beauty of this country is the rural áreas and the seaside. I met a british guy in my hotel there, and he offered me to share expenses doing a road trip to different points of the small Montenegrin map.
Starting on monday, we drove almost 1000km, visiting 22 of the 23 Municipalities of the country, just avoiding Bijelo Polje which I had visited before. Here, a few images from this trip. We spent the first night in Šavnik, the second in Andrijevica, the third in Cetinje and the fourth in Herceg Novi.
01 Montenegrin Road Map
02 Important Orthodox Monastery, outside Danilovgrad, in the road towards Nikšić
03 Northern Mountains, close to Plužine
04 Sometimes you need a bigger 4WD car, or sometimes you are lucky enough to find a tractor willing to help you. Municipality of Šavnik
05 Durmitor National Park and amazing Tara River, by Žabljak
06 Turkish coffee in the bridge over the Tara River Canyon, in Pljevlja (Most na Đurđevića Tari). Coffees to remember
07 Island of Saint Stephan, next to Budva
08 Church of Saint Elijah (Црква Светог Илије), Zagora, Municipality of Kotor
On the last day, in Kotor, I got an e-mail asking me to return back to work on monday. As the car documents were not ready, I decided to fly to Moscow for a week and return later for my car.
Montenegro has three airports: Podgorica (TGD/LYPG), Tivat (TIV/LYTV) and Berane (IVG/LYBR). The last one has no flights.
TGD has no flight to Moscow, as YM suspended the flight YM600/1 to DME replacing it just for the YM610/1 on the route TIV-DME-TIV.
Options leaving TGD were JU, AZ, TK or OS.
TIV has a daily flight to SVO (SU), 6 weekly to DME (S7), 1 weekly (U6) and 5 weekly (YM). Besides, also 6 weekly to BEG by JU and 10 weekly by YM. SU flights are in S95, S7 in 738, U6 in 321 and YM in 195.
By prices, the best option was JU on the TIV-BEG-SVO route. I bought the flight in no time on airserbia.com and 12 hours later, I was in Kotor bus station taking a bus to Tivat City, and the driver droped me on the E80 route just outisde the airport.
Other options I also checked were BEG, DBV, SPU, OMO and SJJ, even TIA. TIV was the cheapest and the shortest connection.
Flight: Air Serbia JU-183
Route: Tivat – Belgrade “Nikola Tesla” (TIV-BEG)
Date: 06FEB2016
Scheduled Time: 1510-1615. Schedule duration: 1h05m
Real real departure: 1505 (departure LYTV RWY 32).
Real real arrival: 1549 (landing LYBG RWY 12). Real duration: 0h54m
Aircraft: ATR 72-202(MSN 180). Constructed for JAT Airways in June 1990, added to Air Serbia in 2013
Reg: YU-ALN (oldest aircraft on JU fleet, over 25 years old)
Seat: 03A – Economy (no Business offered)
LF: 40%
Check in was fast. The lady told me not to got through departure until YM and S7 flights had already departed (both were leaving at 14:30). So I spent some time on my computer. TIV offers free wifi.
09 Tivat Airport , Municipality Tivat
10 Tivat Airport Entrance. Passengers of YM and S7
11 Check In area. 12 desks: 1 and 2 for JU, 4 and 5 for YM, 7, 8 and 9 for S7 and 10, 11 and 12 for SU.
12 Ticket agencies, SU and S7
13 Boarding Pass to Moscow, with the logo of Aerodromi Crne Gore (Montenegrin Airports).
14 Passport stamp, and security check. No time here.
15 Empty terminal. Duty Free (Dufry), where I was last year, and bought also the same perfume for myself.
16 Boring FIDS. No flights scheduled till the following morning.
17 No jetways as well. Just walk to the airport.
18 Another ATR72 from Air Serbia (YU-ALP) with crew practicing take off and landings.
19 and 20 Our aircraft, YU-ALN. ATR72-200 are only accessed by the back door in the left
