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...

The only thing that comes to mind when I think of Kosovo is war. And it's debatable if it's even a country since its independence is agreed by only a bit more than half of the nations in the UN. Serbia still sees Kosovo as it's territory and right before me and my friend Michael went there for a road trip Serbia sent a train to Kosovo with a loud message about this on the outside of the train. "Kosovo Is Serbia" was written in 21 languages on the train and I was afraid that this was a start of a new war between the countries. Me and Michael came from Macedonia by car and already in the customs to Kosovo I was both excited and scared of what was waiting for us. The roads were very poor and since they were falling apart on the sides you had to drive close to the oncoming traffic to still stay on the road. It's not often that you get happy that you survived every encounter with a car heading in the different direction. One time we went the wrong way and drove o...