Montenegro is cheap. I spent a fortune in Italy. Although Montenegro is de facto in the euro zone, its economy is not tied to the other euro zone nations; it simply adopted the euro unilaterally. This goes a small way to explaining why a half litre of beer in Montenegro costs €1.20 and three or four times that in Italy.
At a bar in Bar, I ordered an omelette. I just got off the ferry from Bari, Italy, and wanted some breakfast while waiting for the train to Podgorica. The waiter indicated in Serbian that they had no eggs. I really only ordered it because the word for omelette is omlet, one of only two words on the menu I could understand. Since the other was hamburger, I ordered that. He indicated they had no hamburgers. Off to a rollicking start, this breakfast. He recommended pljeskavica instead. "What's pljeskavica?" I asked, and he rattled off something in Serbian and made a shape with his hands. I shrugged and said, "okay." I was just hungry. When travelling, it makes things a lot easier to eat adventurously, and I'm not by nature a fussy eater. I was ready to try whatever Montenegrin cuisine had to throw at me.
The waiter brought me my pljeskavica. It was a hamburger.
At a bar in Bar, I ordered an omelette. I just got off the ferry from Bari, Italy, and wanted some breakfast while waiting for the train to Podgorica. The waiter indicated in Serbian that they had no eggs. I really only ordered it because the word for omelette is omlet, one of only two words on the menu I could understand. Since the other was hamburger, I ordered that. He indicated they had no hamburgers. Off to a rollicking start, this breakfast. He recommended pljeskavica instead. "What's pljeskavica?" I asked, and he rattled off something in Serbian and made a shape with his hands. I shrugged and said, "okay." I was just hungry. When travelling, it makes things a lot easier to eat adventurously, and I'm not by nature a fussy eater. I was ready to try whatever Montenegrin cuisine had to throw at me.
The waiter brought me my pljeskavica. It was a hamburger.
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