Montenegro Road-trip, Day 2

The second day in beautiful Montenegro started with sun, coffee and planning what to see next. For a country of this size, Montenegro is full of places to see, and picking only few of them may be a challenge. We spent wonderful morning in the café in the same building as our rented apartment, and…

Montenegro Road-trip, Day 1

The idea of visiting Montenegro had been circling in my head since “Casino Royal” was released. I wanted to visit the casino where mr. Bond won over the international criminal, and hopefully sit at the famous table. Imagine my surprise when I learnt that the actual casino, or the building where the casino in the…

Ceylon Tea

You will find the island of Sri Lanka in South Asia, located southeast of India. The documented history of the island goes 3,000 years back. However, some historians point to first evidence of pre-historic settlements from approximately 125,000 years ago. Nowadays, most of the population consist of Sinhalese ethnicity, with Tamilis, Christians, Moors, Burghers, Malays,…

Cats and lemons everywhere

Cyprus is quite an interesting creature, with its location on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea, straddling Europe, Middle East and North Africa underpinning its unique profile. The genealogy of today’s Cypriots stretches all the way back to time preceding the ancient Egypt, dating as far as tenth millennium BC. This is the earliest…