A Visit to Montenegro

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  03.28.06 | 1:19 PM ET

imageFriends didn’t know what to think when David Farley told them he was heading to Montenegro. “Back home, I received mostly blank stares when I announced I was headed to Montenegro for my vacation, stares that evolved into looks of concern when I said that the country is in a union with Serbia, as the last remnants of what used to be called Yugoslavia,” he writes in Sunday’s Washington Post. “But when I mentioned that Montenegro’s beaches make up the southern section of the Dalmatian Coast and that, in fact, the country is already being dubbed the ‘next Croatia,’ I had a list of people who suddenly wanted to come with me.’” Farley wrote the World Hum story The Pasta Nazi.