Swedish Nerd Vs. The World

Since Montenegro is one of those places that are hard to reach with flights with reasonable prices from Sweden, I was thinking of doing a road trip instead from Macedonia via Kosovo and Albania. My friend Lisa who had been living in Macedonia told me to go to the coast of Montenegro where she had been and not to the boring capital called Podgorica. When I googled the map of Montenegro I saw a small village called Ulcinj near the border of Albania on the coast. The next step was to search for images of Ulcinj and boom I was sold, Ulcinj was definitely the place to go to in Montenegro. The water was crystal clear blue and the old castle by the sea looked amazing as the contrast. It had everything I look for in a destination. To make it even more appealing I found the perfect hotel called Continental which almost literally was placed on the beach with the fantastic sea view from the balcony of the room. The road trip with my friend Michael to get to Ulcinj wasn't the easiest one, wi...

When I was a kid I had a classmate called Mario who came from Croatia and he spawned my interest for the country. We played football together and I loved the unique design of their national football team's shirts so I always cheered for them secondly to Sweden. Fast forward the time about 20 years from that and I found an extremely cheap flight ticket to the country that I had always been interested in visiting. I had been very close to my girlfriend Felicia before, and I usually have one best friend instead of many friends, but now we had broken up even if it seemed like we were going to find back to each other soon. So who would I go to Croatia with, because I couldn't let this opportunity slip away? I thought it would be nice to get to know my drinking buddy Andreas more, it would be fun to find out if we could have a good time without the alcohol too. And to my surprise he was up for it and to Croatia we went! Since the flight to Zadar on the coast of Croatia was so che...