Showers in the black mountains

Crna Gora or the Italian spelling that we use of Montenegro must surely be the most correctly descriptive name of a country. Immediately over the border there they are, black mountains. Only staying for a night, most travellers head to the nice seaside town of Budva or the stunning (better even than Lakes Como, Garda and Ioannina) Kotor. We though stayed in the rather plain but clean capital of Podgorica. A fairly late discovery that a Euro 2012 qualification match was to be played against England right on our time of being there anyway meant that a few beers in the sun with the England fans and €90 later two tickets were in hand to watch from the Montenegrin end what was actually a crucial game with both teams requiring points in order to qualify for next year’s tournament. I should confess to not exactly being England’s most passionate supporter after having (like many it seems) become tired of the under achieving, over paid and over rated players. Still at 2-0 up things seemed to be ticking along nicely until a combination of being out fought and out thought meant that the home side with what I think was the last piece of action of the night snatched a well deserved 2-2 draw. Our almost double price seats were though near the front of the stand that of course became involved in the biggest downpour since we left the UK, a real heavy one, thunder and all. So as we battled to remain even slightly dry once again the shower of (mis)hit strolled around the park only this time in a simply dreadful pale blue third kit. An observation that I’ve observed from many of these relatively new countries is that they feel far more passionate and full of energy than good old creaking England ever will in my lifetime. Oh hang on...I’m forgetting the Olympics aren’t I? That’ll make everything better I’m sure...
Something that did cheer me up though was the discovery of the many off licences here that are suitably named Diskont Pića or 'Discount Drinks' in English or...'Discount (first letter two down from Aunt) in Czech!!' I didn't realise that such a thing existed?