Last Sights Around Podgorica
Sunday 12/27/2009 8:34 AM
We've already made it back from Montnegro and are recovering from jetlag at Peter's place in Tallahassee. But that means I keep waking up at 4 am, ready to start my day. Yesterday, that allowed me to hit a couple of post-Christmas sales at the mall here, and I've spent my extra hours this morning editing photos of our final days in Podgorica. Despite the constant rain on our last full day there, we had several small errands to run as we finished packing up. First, we stopped at the American Corner to say our goodbyes to Milena and to drop off the printer we'd bought a few months earlier.
Next we made our final trip to a museum in the center -- I'd read that there was a gift shop there offering unique Montenegrin souvenirs. We'd been to the museum several times, but they always seemed to be closed, so we thought we'd give it one more try. As it turns out, the museum was open on this day, but there was no gift shop in sight. On our way there, though, we stopped by the bakery across the street from the American Corner for drinks and to get a photo of the fish tank on their patio:
We ended up taking a slightly different route to the library and "discovered" this monument on the backside of the Montenegro National Bank:
The metal platform underneath the "bomb" says that the monument is in memory of the innocent victims of the Podgorica bombings in the first and second world wars. Podgorica was pretty much destroyed in the second world war, in particular, so the entire city has been rebuilt since then. If you don't know it's there, the monument is pretty easy to miss: it's set quite a way back from the road in this courtyard, and the grass is pretty overgrown, so what actually caught my eye from the street, though, was this graffiti:
When I mentioned this monument at our farewell dinner later in the night, Jill asked if I'd seen the sculpture of a bird made out of guns, and I hadn't ... though I obviously wish I had. She posted this photo of it on Facebook, though, so I'll share it here. It looks like the benches near the statue/sculpture might be made of guns, too.
But don't worry: we didn't actually leave Podgorica with wars and devestation on our minds. After this outing, we returned to the apartment to finish up our packing before heading to Maestro for our farewell pizza bash.
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