It all started with my nature loving girl saying:
"Hey, why not go to the mountains this week?"
I , being the one who usually takes walks only to work and back, immediately said:
"What? Mountains? Climbing? No thanks."
I know, I know, I'm a lazy pig. But before you judge me, the next day I found out I had some free time I could use, so I decided to make her happy and told her to plan out the weekend mountain trip (she LOVES planning, sometimes I think, even more then she loves me).
Two days later, we were on a bus to Nikšić, a small student town in Montenegro, 3 hours drive from home. I must say, just driving away from hard concrete streets, pale stone walls of boring office spaces, stressed tempo and even more stressed out people, made me feel a lot... calmer... centered.
NOT SO BAD WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT
For all the under appreciation Montenegro gets it really is a beautifull country. Even if you don't count the SECOND largest, deepest and biggest canyon in the world Nevidio, the OLDEST still intact european rainforest Perućica (or virgin forest, not sure about the english language technical difference), or the monumental magnificent monastery Ostrog built inside a rock formation, there is still a whole other range of nature and history you could visit. Not to mention that a liter of their famous šljivovica, homemade plum brandy costs 5 euros, and a half liter beer costs only 1 euro (or in STEEM 0.2053388090349076). Sweet brewy goddess of happiness!!!
BACK TO THE TRIP
From Nikšić we took a shuttle bus to the Pivska mountain where we stayed in a comfy mountain home which is being kept in working order by the village folk living in the houses scattered around it. During WWII it was used by the Yugoslav army as a hospital and it even contains letters from Tito himself, who was once one of the most globaly and localy influental communist leaders.
We spent 2 nights and 3 days there with food three times a day, warm beds and hot showers surrounded by the most beautiful, calming nature that just makes you forget everything except breathing.
Going through the autumn colored fields and snow covered forests gives an unforgettable sense of place that rests not on any ideological, religious, national or racial foundation, but on a feeling of connectedness with LIFE itself. We are too hasty in defining ourselves by the symbols, institutions and borders that surround us in everyday life - we are focused on our own creations (religion, state, profession) so much that we forget the one thing that created us, Nature.
NEVER FORGET - nature is a mother, a teacher, a friend and a child. Nature is life.
FUNFACT - these kids believe in the Iluminati conspiracy and one of them even has his own drawn Iluminati called Bill who protects him from other Iluminatis. Trust me I'm not lying, I could never be so creative.
