06-05-2025
Why yacht owners are setting sail for Montenegro
F ourteen years ago, a chance visit to Montenegro changed Edward Daniell's life. 'I arrived when the first phase of Porto Montenegro Marina was being built,' he says. 'I was so struck by the beauty of the country and the potential of the marina development that I returned to the UK, packed my Freelander with all my worldly possessions and drove back to Montenegro. I've lived here full-time ever since.'
Montenegro was carved out of the former Yugoslavia and only won its independence in 2006. When Daniell visited, the Balkan state was in the early days of a meteoric rise in tourism numbers, the 1.3 million visitors in 2011 doubling to reach 2.6 million last year. Daniell swapped his Cotswolds home for a property in Tivat
