Fjord Hotel Kotor

We arrived in Kotor last night and the weather wasn't so bad. But today it was horrible. It started out with light showers in the morning followed by lightning and thunder for a few hours accompanied with strong winds and then came the rain, and rained and blew all day long.<br><br>Our anchorage was probably as good as it could have possibly have been in the storm, but it still made us rock and roll a lot. Thanks to the ...

Hallo zusammen,<br><br>bin schliesslich weiter gen Norden gefahren, zur Bucht von Kotor, wo mit Kotor das einzige UNESCO Weltkulturerbe von Montenegro liegt. Die Stadt, eine venezianische Kolonie, liegt am Ende eines grossen Fjordes (nun, eigentlich ein geflutetes Tal) inmitten von 1000m hohen Bergen. Die Burg der Stadt ist entlang einer Felswand hinter der Altstadt errichtet worden, die Altstadt ist zwar recht klein aber sehr ...

... the beach towns but with the rain and high degree of uncertainty on getting to Albania, I opt to tour for the day and get to Ulcinj, the town closest to the border. My first loss of the trip happens when I leave my shoulder bag in the bus along with my IPOD. <br><br>Kotor is a gorgeous city with its medieval wall, streets and buildings nestled among the hills and the bay. It feels like stepping back 500 years. It is tiny but with plenty of cafes. As I walk to the center ...

... all the way to the capital. Another crisis was averted and we eventually reached the bus terminal in downtown Ptown. What a beauty that grey concrete shrine to Stalinist architecture was. <br><br>I discovered that I had 11 hours to kill in this Garden of Eden before the night bus to Sarajevo in so I put my bag in storage and dove right in. My dive was more like an abrupt belly flop, and I got so many strange looks from the locals since I ...

... here?<br><br>Country passport stamps-<br><br>Back in the days when the different countries are not friends with each other, you can a stamp for every country you visit. It is a pretty cool souvenir. But now with a huge pressure for every country to be friend (European union), no body really cares where you are from or where you are going! So not too many passport customs stamps lately. We were pleasantly surprise when we went into Montenegro (which I ...

... mates. The conversation mostly consisted of comparisons between Montenegro and England, whether the bar man was gay- I didn't think so, but they were pretty adamant he was- and the quality of prostitutes in Moldova (good to very good apparently). By the time I'd had a few more drinks and tried in vain to buy a round back I remembered I had a train to catch. So I said goodbye and left the pub. To claim I was still sober would ...

... guide for the day. It appeared that we were to have a private tour! As we headed down the coast to the Montenegro border Vladimir explained a bit about what we would be doing over the day. We would first visit Kotor Bay, then travel to the walled city of Kotor itself as we made our way around the largest fiord in Southern Europe, then over the mountains to visit Budva, another walled city, then return via a car ferry. As we approached the border ...

... hotel. When we go to that hotel, it was full. So, we ended back at the first hotel we came across. We checked in (Tammy was embarrassed to re-appear at the first hotel thinking the receptionist will think not to highly of us, but I didn't care, who are they to judge and we'd never see them again anyways) and dropped off our bags. Nice thing is, Niksic has a bit of a nightlife. Besides all the gambling parlors (yes, I said gambling ...

... from whatever had hit me the days before. Not that I saw much of town; in fact, what little I saw really didn't appeal to me that much, being incredibly busy (Montenegran and Serbian tourists mainly, but tourists all the same) and with far too much traffic. The old town was nice enough, a lot like Dubrovnik in miniature, but nothing I hadn't seen before. As far as I could tell, the best thing about Budva were a couple of the bars. Set in coves on the ...

... leave, and we came to the decision, that we had not given the town enough time and that however bad the room/bed was, we would stay and enjoy ourselves. After lunch, we explored every laneway that was in the town. We also climbed the walls, and ended up in someones backyard !!!!! The man who lived there, pointed out that there was another entrance up the mountain wall, one that you did not have to pay for, so we were going up. Crashing ...