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Although Serbia has just declared that it is in no way a financial basketcase, Montenegro has ambled along as usual, the inhabitants seemingly unfazed by the structural collapse of international finance. The Montenegrin economy doesn’t on the face of it seem to have much exposure, and the individual Montenegrin even less than that. There are [...] Montenegro recognises Kosovo, and I take back everything I said previously about the likelihood of this happening. This is of course deeply ironic considering my previous post on Doug Muir’s admission of error regarding the fruits of independence – at least his predictions were good for two years, whereas mine lasted for about two months. What’s [...] Driving rain? 5m visibility? No training? It must be the Montenegro Adventure Race 2008! At the last minute I put together a team to take part in a roller-coaster ride of a race, albeit a roller-coaster that only went down. At least Team Property Styling didn’t have the 20-a-day smoking habit that Team Pluto had, [...] This week, legendary sports journalist Rod Curtis was my guest at the building site that I call home. Rod lives in Tirana, and drives the only car currently available in Albania, a black Merc. It’s been a pleasure having him here, except when he wakes me up at 4 in the morning staggering around the [...] It takes a big man to admit that they were wrong. Doug Muir is a big man. Two years ago Doug was arguing that independence for Montenegro was a bad idea, but this past week he has recanted that heresy and now admits that maybe it wasn’t as much of a bad idea as he [...] Rupert and family are moving from the wilds of London to the far more civilised Vancouver Island in Canada, which I believe used to be part of the British Empire until they had their membership revoked for being too close to the US. (Geography fact: Vancouver Island has a larger population than Montenegro.)
I’m [...] My life: a goat and a bag of cement. Please, no obscene jokes. Whoop-di-do. That’s about the level of euphoria I can muster. As of 11pm this evening, Filip Vujanovic had cleared the 50% threshold required to keep him in the Montenegrin presidency – which of course means that Milo Djukanovic is still the power behind the throne in Montenegro. As I’ve said before, I don’t think that the [...] Transitions Online runs an interesting story on that most familiar of Balkan melodies, the rewriting of history. With its independence last year, Montenegro now has to somehow drag itself out from the shadow of big brother Serbia while making too may people angry, a trick which is hard to pull off: A recent poll suggests that [...] I’m pleased to report that I survived the first Montenegro Adventure Race. Thanks to Croatia Airlines, I got into Herceg Novi at midnight. Having found Hayley and Jack’s place, I crashed on their sofa until I was woken up at 6am by their baby boy. Suitably refreshed, we all pulled on the [...] |
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