TOP-12 facts about Montenegro you want to know

Montenegrins love to sing in the streets, but stand a pillar at discos, prefer the holiday to any work, meat dishes - sea, celebrate the birthday of the male heir with a pistol. In our article we will talk about the most unusual traditions and habits of the inhabitants of Montenegro.

1. Residents of the country use natural coffee beans, but it is not customary to tea here, they sell tea only in Russian stores. If you order a cup of drink in the cafeteria or other point of catering, you are likely to bring a kind of set against acute respiratory infections: a tea bag, a mug of boiling water, a circle of lemon and a mini jar of honey. In this country, it is not customary to drink tea for no reason, it is considered a medicinal drink. This has been the case since the ottoman empire: coffee from Yemen or Muscat was cheap and affordable, and tea was grown in distant India, it was simply not affordable for most locals.
2. This is the most smoking European country: without a cigarette, 47% of adults do not imagine life here. Despite the restrictions and prohibitions, tar here are accustomed to cafes, transport, restaurants and even hospitals. The World Health Organization claims that the country is on the first line in the ranking of the most smokers (on the second and third - Russians and Serbs).
3. The homes of these people are devoid of gas supply, hot water and district heating – they heat water and housing with electricity, so the bills can be frightening. To save money, washing and washing occur either at night or on Sundays - then the tariff is reduced.
4. There are no restaurants in Ronald MacDonald's empire. In the early noughties, they were still in Budva and the capital's Podgorica, but quickly closed, despite the high interest of residents. Rumor has it that the reason for the fall of the network is in the prohibitions of local authorities, which at that time were under the control of nationalists: they believed that the fight against globalization was a war for the future.
5. Lent it hurt for McDuck, Montenegrins cook a hell of a good meal. Instead of eateries, they have bakers selling rolls with nut paste, croissants and pastries stuffed with minced meat, cheese and herbs. You can have a snack more thoroughly in one of the hundreds of family taverns and taverns.
6. Montenegrins of the male sex are not in a hurry to acquire the second half and are not fans to remain faithful to their spouse. In the northern part of this tiny state there is a village full of principled "unmarried" - it is called Konyshi. There are 74 men who do not want to marry.
7. Otherwise, the foundations of families here are patriarchal: from the morning men tend to read newspapers or talk to neighbors about politics in a cafe nearby, while their spouses tinker around the house, collect offspring to school and go to work. Paradoxically, the appearance of a girl is considered an unkind sign; some women prefer to terminate a pregnancy so as not to give birth to their own kind (although such ridiculous superstition still goes into the past).
8. Business and career issues are not among the priorities for the inhabitants of the country, who are much more valuable home and friendly environment. They are not characterized by haste and haste, and laziness is manifested in everything from everyday life to the famous Ten Commandments of the Montenegrin, the main and first of which is "a person's life is given to rest, because he is born tired."
9. But they have fun for glory: in addition to the New Year holidays and Independence Day, Christmas, Easter holidays and a large number of days that do not have official status, but interesting days are also celebrated. For example, the Blueberry Festival, the Days of Summer Send-off, Camellias, Mimosas, Chicken Christmas and the like.
10. Every family has at least one cat or dog. In general, the tailed population exceeds the human population by 2.7 times! They love not only their own: on the street you can often find a feeder or a bowl for cats or birds. And cafes, restaurants and even hotels are very friendly in relation to guests with an animal.
11. There is no other country in the world, with the exception of India, where most of the inhabitants would not care about the rules of behavior on the road. Despite the fact that the country has severe traffic rules, driving at a red traffic light, spontaneous parking, smoking and chatter behind the wheel, not to mention street racing on mountain roads are ordinary events.
12. As in neighboring Serbia, Russians in Montenegro are loved and waited: the resort staff speaks the language, and in the restaurant there is a menu for Russian. In the time of Joseph Broz Tito, this language was an indispensable element of the school curriculum, so the problem of the language barrier is almost absent. You can get drunk and together with sedobrovye aksakals and saxauls to remember the old money and loudly read Pushkin or Lermontov lines to birds.