Getting from Dubrovnik to Kotor is a straightforward journey on paper. It’s roughly 90 kilometers down the Adriatic coast. But the reality of the Croatia-Montenegro border crossing changes everything. You can do this trip by bus, ferry, private transfer, or rental car. Each option has a different price point, a different level of comfort, and
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Belgrade food is grilled, baked and generous. Expect pork, beef, cheese, cabbage and bread at almost every table, and portions that make a second course look optional. Twelve dishes cover what a first visit needs, and a river-fish specialty in Zemun rounds out the list. Each one below comes with a place that public guides
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You have seen the photos. The massive limestone cliffs dropping straight into the deep blue water. The red-tiled roofs of the walled city sitting at the edge of the bay. Kotor is the crown jewel of Montenegro. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site, a major cruise ship port, and a playground for hikers and
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You are trying to figure out where to stay in Kotor. You have seen the photos of the dramatic mountains meeting the Adriatic Sea. You want the postcard experience. Now you just have to pick a basecamp. Most people automatically book a hotel inside the walled Old Town of Kotor. It is famous. It is
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Novi Sad sits about 80 to 95 km north of Belgrade, and the fast train gets you there in around 35 minutes. One detail changes the plan. Novi Sad’s main railway station has been closed since November 2024, so trains from Belgrade stop at Petrovaradin, across the Danube from the old town. A free shuttle
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Moving to Europe from the USA comes down to one decision and ten tasks. The decision is how you earn money. Each income type leads to a different visa, and the wrong visa costs you months. Spain’s non-lucrative visa, for example, bans all work, remote work included. The ten tasks are paperwork, insurance, housing, taxes
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Let me save you some time: the single cheapest country in Europe is somewhere like Albania, Bulgaria or Romania. I’ll point you to those near the end. This guide covers four others, Portugal, Croatia, Slovenia and Malta, and they share something the cheapest places often lack. All four use the euro and sit inside the
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Three days is the right amount of time for a first visit to Belgrade. Two days gets you the headline sights and leaves you hungry for more. Four days starts to feel like a city holiday. Three lets you see the fortress, the big museums and a couple of neighborhoods, and still leaves room for
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Belgrade is loud, a little scruffy and very hard to dislike. The city sits where the Sava river runs into the Danube, and its name means “White City.” A bakery on Nemanjina street, Pekara Trpković, is reportedly open around the clock and has been selling burek for over 100 years. That’s Belgrade in one fact.
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Peniche is a pretty town by the sea in Portugal, about 80 kilometers to the northwest of Lisbon. The town has existed for a long time, even before people can remember it. Some of the best things to see in Peniche are a 16th-century fortress-turned-museum, UNESCO World Heritage Site with stunning natural beauty for swimming,
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