Megayachts, millionaires and mourning Tito: How Montenegro embraces luxury holiday industry while celebrating a …

Adriatic beauty spot has reinvented itself as a five-star holiday destination for super wealthy yacht owners In Tivat, the 287 million Euro Porto Montenegro, 80-foot megayachts moor for up to 40,000 per year But there is plenty for everyone with four national parks, peaceful lakes, glorious beaches and a fascinating history

By Emily Payne for MailOnline

Published: 09:16 EST, 15 January 2015 | Updated: 12:13 EST, 15 January 2015

For Radovan Peric and his family, real life is in the mountain, with their forty goats.

'This is the way my ancestors lived, it's my fate,' he tells me, liberally sloshing more home-distilled grappa into shot glasses.

In the thirty years he has lived with his wife, and later his daughters and granddaughter, in this simple home perched on the hillside above the Kotor old town and the bow-tie shaped southern part of the bay, he has seen cataclysmic change, the landscape pushed and pulled by tradition versus progression.

Once, communist-owned factories chugged below; now, ecology is thriving, Peric grows all his own food and only descends for beer, coffee and sugar.

A view over Kotor Bay from the home of Radovan Peric and his family, who live the simple life away from the modernisation of Montenegro

Apart from the odd horror during the Eurovision Song Contest I knew little about Montenegro, except that it sounded green, but somehow moody and grey, in the shadow of huge mountains and of course, that lots of millionaires live there.

Now, daring to dip a toe into the world of multi-generational holiday, I'm here with my mother, and I see that I was right. But of course, that's just the tip of the post-soviet iceberg.

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