As I don't see any evidence of a rough guide to Montenegro (Crna Gora to you !) in the offing, can anyone recommend a suitable up-to-date travel guide to the country ?
I did visit in the early eighties when it still formed part of a unified Yugoslavia and have vivid memories of stunning mountain and seascapes, wonderful old walled towns like Kotor, Budva and Ulcinj, the beaches that Croatia doesn't have and a white-knuckle busride from Kotor to the ancient mountain capital Cetinje with breathtaking views of the Boka Kotorska below.
I understand that some cross-border buses now run from Dubrovnik and that bus travel along the coast from Herceg Novi to Ulcinj is reasonably reliable........but how safe is the interior in terms of stray ordnance etc. And are daytrips to the Tara Canyon feasible from the coast ?
It's worth noting that, since independence,the local currency is now the Euro (!) which unfortunately has facilitated wholesale coastal property acquisition by (mainly) entrepreneurial Brits. This is of course reflected in apartment/room rental rates where sites in English can cost more than double those advertised through local agents or independent sites. Search for "sobe" (the Serbo-Croat equivalent of zimmer) and one can find peak-season rates as low as 5 Euro per person. Or just arrive and be swamped by the "sobe women" at the bus stations of the major resort towns - well, that's how it was 20 years ago and I assume that practice lives on !