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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 2. 06. 2024
- Travel with us from Tirana, Albania to Podgorica, Montenegro. This capital city is not known as one of the highlights of Montenegro. Join us on our travel there, walk around in Podgorica with us and see what we think of this city.
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Glad your enjoying it!
Yeah we have another video coming out today about Podgorica. We have moved along to the seaside already and working on some videos here as well. It's much nicer by the water!
Albania used to have that same problem with the betting and gambling shops everywhere but Edi Rama outlawed them some years back. Actually the guy that used to be the major owner of those disappeared last year. They think he was murdered but they donât have a body yet.
Now casinos are only allowed in major hotels.
I was really shocked how much of it is in Podgorica. I don't see that as a good thing.
@@JayandSarah I think James Bond made gambling really glitzy in the movie Casino Royalđ
Thanks for the video. I'll be in Montenegro in a couple of weeks.
Nice! We like it here for sure.
@@JayandSarah I'm glad to hear it. I've been in Croatia for over a year. My residency is expiring in a few days, so I must leave Schengen. I'm considering residency in either Montenegro or Albania, while I pop in and out to work on my house in Croatia for the next few years. Croatia residency is complicated if you don't work or have family here.
@@tangocharlie77 yes I had read that. I would pick Albania over Montenegro personally.
Thanks for the introduction to Podgorica. You made it sound better than I was expecting it to be.
It would not be on my list to ever stay in again unless I was transiting through. But it's not as bad as many other people have described it.
3:20 Hey jay, Iâve been watching some famous travelers over the years in CZcams, and what Iâve learned is that in these cases itâs best to ask beforehand. A âHow much money would you take me for over there?â would help in this case. In South American countries most taxis donât have meters from what Iâve seen in other vloggers. So what they do is ask beforehand to avoid being ripped off. They will still try to rip you off anyway but at least in that way you can negotiate down the price if itâs reasonable for your budget.
We did ask before hand the price, from 3 different guys - who were obviously all in cahoots to fix the price and not negotiate. We should have walked from the bus terminal a couple blocks but at thet point we were so exhausted I didn't have the energy to deal with that. But thank you for pointing it out the best options in future, we will be sure to be more vigilant. It's only the first time this has happened to us, we've always had or negotiated fair prices in other situations. Thanks for watching!!!
Another great video. You make me laugh Jay. Great dry sense of humour. I would like Sarah to get more involved. Im guessing she is generally a reserved person. Both of you are great people. I really like the parks in towns and cities. Those parks were all well maintained and clean. Thanks for a good honest video. Big fan of supermarket vids too. đ
I will try to get her more involved. I am more the extrovert, she is not. We gave it a good honest review. We have 1 more about Podgorica before our next video where we arrive in Biljena near Kotor. Stay tuned and thanks for watching!
I tried to do a supermarket video yesterday in Bijela but they had posted signs about no photos or video on the door. Have not seen that in a while.
Will you be going to two of the cities on the coast, especially budva?
We passed through Budva on our bus. We are staying just outside of Herceg Novi but will spend some time in Tivat, Kotor and Herceg Novi.
Actually the tallest people are in the Netherlands, followed by Bosnia and Herzegovina. But nice to know they're tall in Montenegro too!
Loving traveling along "with" you guys, we'll get there eventually. đ
If you asked me 2 years ago if we would be doing this, I'd have never have thought it. We have zero regrets. It is lots of fun. It's not without some challenges and problems, but it's also rewarding when you somehow manage to navigate all the things you need to do.
@@JayandSarah Anything worth doing has it's ups and downs! And you won't know until you try it. I'm so proud of you guys for doing it when you're younger! I was 57 when we moved to Ecuador, now I'm ready to see what else is out there. â€ïž
@@conniecrew2585 there is a lot to see in this world, that we are sure of! We've already seen some crazy stuff!
â@@conniecrew2585 Montenegrin men are the tallest after Dutch. Montenegrin women might be the tallest.
Saw your second video where you went to pay the tourist tax In Podgorica, where did you go to pay the tourist tax?
You pay in a tourist info office in the city centre. You can google this or also check it is right near the Burger King.
Thank you.
Welcome!!!
Montenegro is the country with the tallest population in the world actually. So no surprise about the tall women đ
Good to know! Very tall that is the first thing that really stuck out to us.
If you go to Ulcinj, thatâs a city with and Albanian majority. Podgorica has too just not majority.
We have now moved on to the Herceg Novi area, but thanks for the info, maybe next time through Montenegro we will stay there for a week instead.
@@JayandSarahUlcinj is absolutely lovely with beautiful beaches, restaurants and a fun night life. We will be there for the month of July if you want to meet up with some fellow Canadians. We have a place there and would love to host youâ
@@DulcignoCambridge oh wow amazing, thanks for the offer. We've already left that area and moved over to seaside near Herceg Novi, otherwise we would have totally taken you up on that! Would have been great to meat with you!!!!
Was flying from Corfu to Montenegro an option you considered?
We hadn't considered that. Adding ferry costs and plane tickets for what amounted to not that bad of a bus ride for low cost, just not really justifiable.
You seem to jump into conclusions a bit. About being busy, cleanliness, quiet ... It is not the best of logics to see a lot of cafes and say the town is not busy just because you're not in the "right" time of the day, for instance midday.
Podgoritsa is a dull place tourist-wise.
Yes I know it is dull tourist wise. When you make a vlog, you call it as you see it. We were there for a week, it was never that busy even in the evenings. Thanks for watching.
During the summer MOST of the CITIZENS of Podgorica are on our Adriatic seaside! It's close! And few degrees colder than in Podgorica. And summers in Podgorica are on par with Sevilla, Zaragoza, Florence, Athens, Madrid, Mostar, Skoplje, Tirana etc. Very hot! So we in Podgorica during the summer are either on the coastline OR on some of our BEAUTIFUL mountains. Or if we can't go anywhere then we are under the ACs during the hottest part of the day. Even during the summer there's beautiful buzz in the evenings in Podgorica. Most of us have our cousins living there in the mountains of Montenegro. For example i have 2 uncles living in northern Montenegro, in the fantastic mountain village on 1500 meters above the sea level. Village that literally looks like you are in Switzerland and they cover themselves during the nights when sleeping like it's winter, even during the July and August, while in Podgorica even the nights are too hot sometimes during the summer!
But all these talks how there's not a lot of people about in Podgorica, in the middle of the hot summer day, on Sunday. đ I am thinking to myself, come back in October, November, December, etc. and walk a bit in the early evening or early morning when people go to work. You would have to deal with tens of thousands people and crazy traffic. There's like 100 000 cars in Podgorica. Podgorica is much bigger than second biggest city of Croatia Split, and 2,5 times bigger than Mostar in Bosnia and Hercegovina. Podgorica metro area is 250 000 people now. Split is like 170 000. Mostar is like barely above the 100 000.
@@JayandSarah I have relatives living in Podgoritsa. They say the traffic is crazy in the rush hours and it is near impossible to find a parking space downtown during business hours and in the evenings. I somehow believe them since it is similar throughout the Balkans.
Evenings might be in different time there, say after 9, or 10 pm.
Anyway, if there are a lot of cafes, somehow there should be a lot of people around who enjoy them. And in Podgoritsa they are locals, not tourists.
@@BelgradeArch for sure they would be locals, Podgorica does not seem to have much tourist interest in it. Agreed, probably at 10pm on sunny nights the pedestrian zone would be busy with people just like in many places. Crazy traffic.. through the central city... guess that depends what your definition of crazy traffic is. It was busy for sure.
@@Just_another_Euro_dude great reply thanks for sharing some facts and interesting story about your relatives!! Thanks for watching.