Tag: Adriatic Sea
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Piran
Endless day, endless sun. Time stood still. magic happened. The world was on my side. Morning run along the coast, through a quiet, sleepy city. Past the resorts and then the fishermen. Dining alone on the waterfront, a local breeze, a local white wine, and a fishplatter for one. Wander for photos, wander accidentally, find…
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Piran
What I want to remember most about that first night in Piran is how the fresh, sweet, floral-sea smell hit me when I exited the car and made me instantly forget the knots in my stomach that had hurt me all week leading up to that moment, far from home, alone on the Adriatic. And…
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Sveti Stefan & Skadar
Departure. Rising before the sun. The clocks sprang ahead an hour overnight and at 6:00 am, all is quiet. I sneak away as the seven bells chime. No one is out, but me. One last breath of the bay, and I’m off. The winding, coastal roads are exclusively mine. Flying free, me & the local…
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Budva & Jaz
I read that Budva is known as the “Cancun of the Balkans,” that it’s impossible to get a chair at Jaz Beach in the summer. Maybe those facts are true; I didn’t experience those parts of town. For all that I had heard of Jaz’ energy, it was pleasantly deserted, abandoned even, in the March…
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Perast
Perast, blues & breeze. I woke up intending on taking a cab or a bus to this little town, which is more of a strip of harbor than a town proper. I was afraid to lose my parking spot and a bit nervous of returning to those windy, mountain Montenegrin roads. But then I saw…
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Bay of Kotor
Cats and palms by the sea. A sunset obscured by the mountains and the bluest, blue sea. I left Old Town in the evening to walk along a seaside path that I had run earlier in the morning. I wanted to take pictures, and I found myself sitting on the beach, toes in the bay,…
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