Meet our Montenegro yoga retreat instructor, Fiona Morris

Are you coming to find your zen on our Montenegro yoga retreat next year? Or considering it? Get a taste of what’s to come as we catch up with our lead yogi Fiona Morris. Fiona is a yoga & pilates instructor and personal trainer based in Nottingham, UK. She turned to yoga after her corporate

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The making of our unique kayaking & bushcraft holiday in Montenegro

Kayaking holiday Montenegro

Often considered Montenegro’s answer to Lake Como, the glorious Lake Skadar in the south has no shortage of epic views, stunning wildlife and intrepid adventures to experience. That’s why so many of our holidays are based here. With our first Kayaking and Bushcraft trip of the season around the corner, we caught up with co-founder

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Undiscovered Tastes #4 – a recipe for priganice doughballs from Montenegro

Hungry hikers dipping their priganice dough balls into organic honey at a private home in Montenegro

This recipe for priganice dough balls is delicious! Unexpected, delicious new foods  are one of the best bits of travelling. One dish which continually delights and surprises our guests is ‘priganice’ (that’s the name for these dough balls in Montenegro, but every country in the Western Balkans has their equivalent, from uštipci in Serbia to

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Villa Miela’s winter projects

If you’re reading this, you know what we usually get up to when we have a tourist season – but you might not be aware that Emma and I tend to be just as busy during the winters. It’s not all skiing and cricket (yes, really!), finding new waterfalls, routes and locals to include in

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Undiscovered Tastes #3 – the perfect “peka/sač” recipe

A peka or sac dish being cooked outside by the fire at Villa Miela in Montenegro

Despite the success of our yoga and sound healing retreat the other weekend, it’s not all vegan raw food experiences at Villa Miela! Sometimes, you have to swing in the opposite direction and embrace the best dish to come out of the Balkans – peka – or sač as we call it in Montenegro. Ever

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Hiking the Accursed Mountains: the end, and the beginning, of the world…

A valley in Montenegro's Accursed mountains with a blue river running through, grassy meadow filled with yellow wild flowers and behind, the dramatic rocky peaks rising up of the Karanfili massif

There is a special place I like to take people who are in Montenegro’s mountains for the first time . One girl told me it reminds her of the end of the world. Are you familiar with a feeling when you wake up from a deep dream, and find yourself back in “reality”? For a

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Undiscovered Tastes #2 – Wild Asparagus 3 Ways (salad, omelette, quiche)

Wild asparagus and wild rose garlic flowers foraged from woodland near Lake Skadar in Montenegro

As the pandemic has forced us all to slow down and take stock, more of us are beginning to consider the food we eat, our supply chains and how we can produce and make things at home. Learning how to identify and harvest wild asparagus with our friend Ilija in woodland by Lake Skadar connected

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Undiscovered Tastes #1 | Foraging for food in Montenegro

A freshly baked filo pastry pie stuffed with wild greens which Montenegrins call Zelena Pita, placed on the outdoor table of Villa Miela's terrace with a backdrop of rocky mountains at Lake Skadar National Park

How we’ve started ‘foodie foraging’ and a recipe for Wild Greens Pie Foraging for wild edible food is a huge and popular tradition here in Montenegro! So many of our local friends know exactly where and what to pick in nearby woods and fields, from wild leafy greens like nettle and garlic to serve in

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Zoom with a view from Undiscovered Montenegro!

With so many people working from home these days, we decided to create some special backgrounds for Zoom which you can download and use to maybe even fool your colleagues into thinking you’re on holiday with us! After all, Montenegro’s tight lockdown has ended and borders are rumoured to be opening in time for summer.

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Get on your bike with Vuk!

In Montenegro we like to say we’re more resistant to living in crisis than the rest of the world – and I’m only half joking! For those of us who remember the 90s, this mess we’re in regarding Covid-19 doesn’t register on the same scale at all. There’s no question, though, that social distancing has

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