First Impressions of PODGORICA, Montenegro 🇲🇪 Europe's Most BORING City?!

After spending just over a week sailing croatia, it was time to head to it's neighbour, MONTENEGRO! Starting with supposedly the most boring city in europe...we'll be the judges of that! As it was summer, the population was less than normal, with a lot of people on holiday or working in the coast! We still manage to find some gems and try some fantastic food!
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[@richarda7428]

I went there. It was super quiet and I literally saw no one on the streets during the day. However at night, there were two streets, that were rammed with bars and people. Quite the contrast.

[@dabbleandtravel]

Yes we went to those too! However we got there before it got too crazy!🤣

[@alexandrahass4193]

For a moment there I thought you were in Sofia, but Podgorica looks waaaaaay better, neater and far less people. I love it :)

[@jarrodgill7576]

You guys are on fire. One of the best yet. Visited Kotor on a cruise ship last year. Sailing out was an absolute travel must. And from what we could see the country looked amazing. We plan to return and spend some time. Great vid.

[@justd18]

Perfect for my morning coffee. All the best from a romanian living in the Uk

[@Just_another_Euro_dude]

Hmmm, Podgorica metro area got 250 000 people. I am pretty sure some random city of 20 000 people in any other country of Europe will be waaaay more boring. Most boring capital city of Europe? Don't know. Maybe. I think it's MUCH better than capitals od Kosovo, Moldova, etc. Also it's way richer. Average monthly net salary in Podgorica is getting close to 1000 euros now. Most boring city of Europe? There's 1000 cities all around the Europe that are tiny compared to Podgorica. Places with 10 000, 15 000, 20 000, 25 000, 30 000 people. And even places with 100 000 people are MUCH smaller than Podgorica. Call me crazy but somehow i don't think they are all oh so very interesting. My parents moved to Podgorica(Titograd) from the mountain city in northern Montenegro, back in the 1970s. It's a city of only 30 000 people. And like a horror movie. No jobs, destroyed old communist factories, nothing. People in other parts of Montenegro are literally selling everything just to move to Podgorica. Podgorica got 6 rivers and the biggest lake of the southeastern Europe and just north of Podgorica is one of the deepest canyons of Europe with third highest motorway bridge of Europe. You just need to know the right places and it won't be boring for sure. Adriatic coastline is only 45 minute drive from Podgorica. So that's close too. Summers in Podgorica are almost as hot as Sevilla so most of the citizens of Podgorica are either at the Adriatic coastline or at the cool Montenegrin mountains. Also during the hottest parts of the summer days it's siesta time. Everyone is under the AC or some really strong fans.

[@costasworldofmusicmemories5792]

Harriet and I were there for two many years ago. I Very interesting country. I think what Montenegro needs is an identity . It needs to identify with someone or something. A movie you might check out if it's available on Netflix or Amazon Prime is called " Montenegro " starring Susan Anpach. A little insight into a Yugoslavian Bohemian lifestyle. Hope you enjoyed you time there. Sending you much love❤❤ from our current location at St. Charles (The Chesapeake Bay) Delaware -East side Harriet, Jim and Yuki

[@HeritageCast]

I cannot wait to go. All the stories from my Serbian friends sounds like a fantastic place. Especially since its only an hour from Belgrade. Yall should do a roadtrip in Muerica from Key West and all the way up the coast to Maine... You'll have a blast.. And with all your walking get some Russell Moccasins handmade there...

[@user-se7zm6wj5i]

Thank you for sharing! ! Podgorica is a charming, quiet city. Your video proves that. Just for information: the name of the city during the Yugoslavia period was Titograd.

[@dabbleandtravel]

@@user-se7zm6wj5i thanks so much for watching!

[@andybaker2456]

Independence Square reminds me of the one and only time I visited Crawley town centre! 😄

[@dabbleandtravel]

🤣 never been to Crawley!

[@andybaker2456]

@@dabbleandtravel Trust me, you're not missing much! 😁

[@hlateikfx]

molly knows very well how to choose her clothes that suit her the robes, bikinis, and shorts

[@dabbleandtravel]

Thank you!

[@dcole9589]

NO people in the square. NOT even pigeons. 😂 Had to put on hip high boots this vlog. 😂😂😂LOL

[@alexhorvath9277]

Guys, I see that you are obsessed with the Balkans but you are looking for "Balakns" in the wrong places. You have to go to southern Serbia. 1st you have to visit Guča festival 2nd you have to visit Roštiljada in Leskovac for famous Leskovački roštilj (Leskovac grilled food)

[@richardcornel9003]

Wow... A very interesting architecture of the church. 😊 Great video. 👍 Cheers and stay safe. ❤

[@dabbleandtravel]

Cheers as always Richard!

[@historicalfacts7609]

​@@dabbleandtravelphysical geography is the branch of natural science

[@RoseGoes-]

Would have loved to see the Cathedral in Podgorica. The pictures look so rich in gold. Next time ✈️

[@egyptianhibiscus9203]

Podgorica can't be boring just due to the fact that in 40min you reach the coast :)

[@dabbleandtravel]

So true!!!

[@egyptianhibiscus9203]

@@dabbleandtravel Eager to see your impressions of Budva and the rest. I love Budva but don't miss Herceg Novi, Perast, the Boka Bay ❤

[@Watfordfc2030]

That church wow wow wow right up my street , this is us just mooching taking in different types of cities and cultures , food beers and a soda water with lime for Matt ? What’s happened to the lad lol . Brilliant video and Thankyou x 👍

[@dabbleandtravel]

It was a quiet but unique city! Can’t beat a beer but yeah a soda water and lime was needed 🤣🤣🤣 cheers mate!🙏🏻👌🏼

[@JackCooky]

Yay another video!! Budva old town is beautiful guys I hope you visit there soon 😄

[@dabbleandtravel]

we really liked Budva! Video is coming!🥰🥰

[@Crystalslade87]

We r in skradin at the moment just been to Sibinek highly recommend the not so touristy spots

[@nedskiechannel3892]

Wow nice and beautiful adventures again beautiful scenery that’s country so beautiful nice and delicious foods and wow what a beautiful church thank you for showing us take care and always be safe 🥰🥰🥰⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍

[@rafikziyani8068]

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[@dabbleandtravel]

Thanks for watching!

[@AleksandarGospic]

Being from Croatia, you were recommended to me because of your Croatia series. I like your style, watched all those Croatia videos, but didn't subscribe yet. Well, this video has finally turned me around, you managed to make Podgorica interesting 😁😂 But seriously, I rarely subscribe to any new channels, it's just impossible to keep up with everything. But both of you are cool personalities, interesting to watch, you respect local customs, you try to learn local stuff and pronounce names and words correctly, you are not uninformed in your videos, so yeah, looks like I'm here to stay 😁 Cheers or should I say živjeli 🍻🙃

[@HeritageCast]

Make some videos on Croatia. Problem with the Balkans to visitors is we only see what Westerns or Random Russians show. Until I went to Serbia and Macedonia myself it was just theory. Trust me people need see the Balkans from your perspective. Maybe talk MIACH and TIA into joinin you lol...

[@alexhorvath9277]

@@HeritageCastCroatia is the 6th most visited country in the EU and 15th in the world. There’s no need to mix Croatia with the Balkans. Thank you!

[@dabbleandtravel]

@@AleksandarGospic thank you so much!! We really appreciate this. Zivjeli!🥰🥰

[@MariaPeake-y9c]

You should come to Old royal capital city Cetinje,so much to see 🤗

[@dabbleandtravel]

Next time!🥰🥰

[@jpford3430]

I was just there a week ago. I love it there

[@jordanhunt4867]

I'd love to go here too, in fact I want to visit all countries of former Yugoslavia, ideally 2025 - 27

[@dabbleandtravel]

Love it! Thanks for watching!

[@jordanhunt4867]

@@dabbleandtravel My pleasure

[@karolygjorgjevic3785]

Drink rakija!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mnogo rakija!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Djevojka je prekrasna.

[@alanduffy6038]

There wasn't much going on when we visited, a national holiday and hardly any tourists (even in July 22). But not boring! Easy place to relax with cheap food and drink around the square and as you did, catch up on work. My only issue was the football shop at the Stadium was never open despite its hours posted on the door and online. Didn't get my souvenir sports top in Montenegro.

[@dejanstanojevic6484]

Hello. Very good video. I suggest you visit the city of Nikšić, which is the second largest in Montenegro and the Ostrog monastery, which is close to Nikšić and is beautiful. I hope that after Montenegro you will return to Serbia and visit places you didn't last time.

[@dabbleandtravel]

Next time!

[@davidostrowski679]

Love Nikšić! I was there a few months ago. Great spomeniks!

[@cardinal8656]

The city is so quiet because most of the approximately 600,000 people work in the tourist resorts (Budva, Tivat, Herceg Novi, Ulcinj etc.) and 5% (official) are in the rest of Europe, also work there, have a second home and some also collect social benefits. It would be nice if Kotor would be so quiet. This Must-See place is overcrowded like Dubrovnik in Croatia.

[@sammayet9002]

Interesting, amazing and splendid ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@dabbleandtravel]

Thank you so much 😀

[@MorganDeshayes]

To the dog : "can you shut up a second?" 🤣

[@dabbleandtravel]

@@MorganDeshayes 🥰🤣🤣🤣

[@joepusic4238]

We don't get up before twelve dammmmmm

[@dabbleandtravel]

12!

[@niallmcdonagh1093]

I think that Moldova claims the title of worlds most boring capital...but Podgorica looks like a close second!!!! That lets Canberra and Kosovo off the hook then....been to both and dispute that!!!! As Dorothy Parker once wrote: ' ...and when he got there, there was no There there.' !!!!!!!

[@ronaldregio]

Yea

[@amersehalic1859]

Matt have you ever not liked any food you tried? 😂 man everytime I see you guys eat and enjoy it so much I instantly want to order Cevapi!

[@dabbleandtravel]

We’re quite clever and only order things we know we’ll like! 🤣🤣

[@scentsoftravelmeditation]

Everything looks exciting to her, that’s how u knw the poor soul grew up Englis 😹

[@dabbleandtravel]

🤣🤣🤣

[@wiljohnallen1]

It seems that the dog would like to join the vlog. 😅

[@dabbleandtravel]

@@wiljohnallen1 literally!🤣

[@scotbownes5627]

Amusing 👍🙂

[@dabbleandtravel]

@@scotbownes5627 thank you for always watching!

[@ionutciprian2409]

Va astept la Maramures 😊

[@dabbleandtravel]

🥰💗

[@Heyyy120]

Love from india 🇮🇳

[@arrore]

come to Albania. We have news.

[@Karan-dq1nm]

Hi guys

[@dabbleandtravel]

🥰🥰🥰

[@bijelimedved2983]

11:48 How can 8 euros be expensive in Croatia if you are form England ?

[@johncowie4976]

You tried guys - it’s a boring old city 😊

[@dabbleandtravel]

Owwwww don’t say that 🤣

[@bijelimedved2983]

And wher are you from ?

[@maspalfiker]

I love your statenent at the start of the video, the nicest thing one can say about Croatia is that "it is not Balkan enough" 😄👍

[@dabbleandtravel]

🤣

[@richlopez5896]

That church looks more like a bunker. I'm amazed the atheistic communists even allowed it to be built in the first place. the Catholic Church was a loud critic of communism.

[@alexhorvath9277]

What does this have to do with communism? This is about an architectural era called modernism. Also, do you really believe that communists would build churches? 😂😂😂 Educate yourself! Yugoslavia was a socialist federation, not a communist one.

[@gin2x]

Molly ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@dabbleandtravel]

🥰🥰🥰

[@gin2x]

@@dabbleandtravel ☕☕☕🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@darkoscur6628]

Montenegro is nice and price are good for normal people,Croatia have prices to big

[@dabbleandtravel]

Agreed!

[@maximilianpaech1944]

💯

[@dabbleandtravel]

🥰💗

[@prathameshKapde80048]

hey please are you both making vlog videos on next month's all matches and final of women's t20 world cup 2024 and womens big bash league 2024,mens big bash league 2024 - 25, women's ashes series 2025, champions trophy 2025,wtc final 2025, women's odi world cup 2025 and upload it.jai shri krishna.

[@adaazis645]

Love indonsia

[@Legionnaire1992]

I went in May. It is the most boring city I've ever been to

[@dabbleandtravel]

There’s always fun in every city!!

[@bijelimedved2983]

And wher are you form ?

[@Xray21207]

Have to say it was a nice spot when I went there but honestly? It's probably the ugliest place in the country.... hit up Budva or Kotor to see the real beauty and what montenegro has to offer 😊

[@dabbleandtravel]

Next video incoming!🥰💗

[@Xray21207]

@@dabbleandtravel amazing! 😍

[@nebojsa1976]

Perfect decision, travel with car, already done I guess. You're always stuck with "average" food, thinking it's the best food ever, you're scratching surface there in Balkans. Maybe you are hitting 30-40% of what Balkan has to offer in terms of good food. But you can go all the way up to 90%. It's whole another world. But of course, it's hard for you to know. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGrFpZtto916rdk kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4PHgYCdmtqhidU - well this last one you probably won't like hahahha.

[@dabbleandtravel]

Thank you so much! We’ll check it out 🤣

[@nebojsa1976]

@@dabbleandtravel You're welcome. I have list of maybe 150 best restaurants in Balkans (mostly Serbia, Bosnia and some Croatia and Macedonia). They are hitting between 60% and 90% best of everything Balkan has to offer. But it would be massive weight gain haha

[@dardamnit]

I like the vibe in PG, ppl can be on the racist side if you notice

[@dabbleandtravel]

Didn’t see many people! 🤣

[@dardamnit]

I realised my comment maybe sounded misleading. I liked the general vibe, however my friend and I received some strange looks and maybe comments. I want to clarify that i am against all types of racism and bigotry, therefore that was a big negative while i was there.

[@flibu100]

First 🥳🎉

[@dabbleandtravel]

Thank you!🥰🥰🥰

[@m_a_r_k_o_]

🇲🇪🇲🇪🇲🇪😎🇲🇪

[@MultiTrumpetman]

Podgorica is the MOST boring town. Very unfriendly people, who have cery bad behavior in traffic. A lot of garbage everywhere. Just in centre not. Also working and living here is hard. So I'll go back home as soon as possible. Podgorica, really nothin' special.

[@bijelimedved2983]

When are you form ?

[@nenochukich7504]

Montenegro is basically a serbian state,half the population identifies as serbian

[@krstomudrihronicar8112]

Mrs

[@nenochukich7504]

@@krstomudrihronicar8112 sta mrs? To je samo cinjenica

[@krstomudrihronicar8112]

@@nenochukich7504 prtpostavljam da je zato sto je pola, ustvari cijela, sovinisto

[@krstomudrihronicar8112]

@@nenochukich7504 idi na Kosovo pa dokazuj, sta odje mutis?

[@mdbiplobfaraji734]

🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩

[@edLogo]

looks so boring for capital city..

[@dabbleandtravel]

Just quieter than normal!

[@egyptianhibiscus9203]

Sea 40 minutes southwards makes it up

[@bijelimedved2983]

Are where are you from ?