Hotel Albatros Cavtat

... the waterfront where there are lots of restaurants. I think the city would look very beautiful at night. We headed back to the ship and sat up by the pool until dinnertime. We loved the food but were glad that dinner, unlike lunch, was not a buffet, otherwise we probably would have felt sick all the time.
(Steve)

Being on the cruise ship was like being a kid in a candy store.. except instead of a kid it was me and instead ...

... to keep those crumbling buildings standing so it just goes to show that home can be anywhere you make it.

I did make it back in time for my overnight bus on to Sarajevo, and I will let you know what I find in Bosnia and Hercegovina and its country in a country Republika Srpska. Srpska thinks it is a country but isn't recognized by anyone. The name means Serbian Republic, not to be confused with the real Serbia.

... around the Bay of Kotor which is inscribed in the UNESCO Natural World Heritage. It is really beautiful and of such a weird shape. At one spot, there are two islands in the middle of the bay, one with what seems to be a Catholic Monastery, the other with what seems to be an Orthodox Monastery. Once again, coexisting, living side by side in harmony. I stopped in the little town of Perast to visit and take in the feel of this little ...

... and carried several very sharp ones right passed JFK security inspection inside my purse on board out of my own ignorance of new flight rules. It was not until I arrived on my stopover in Paris, France that I was boarding onto a JAT (Yugoslav Air Travel) flight for Belgrade that the security officer of JAT told me that he had to confiscate the aforementioned items owing to new security precautions implemented post 9/11. I informed him upon boarding my initial flight at JFK in New ...

On our second day in Dubrovnik we went on a day trip tot he bordering country, Montenegro. Montenegro is the newest country in the world only gaining independence in 2006. We went in a little mini bus driven by a friend of Nicolas with a Canadian couple and a Slovakian couple we had met in Nicola's car the day before. It was a 2.5 hour drive to our first stop in the city of Kotor. It was similar to Dubrovik but even more impressive, a ...

... another (female) academic teacher that I used to have some classes with. I thought I`d pee in my pants. This world is so small! After a small meal, me and Marcin climbed up a fortress there. The thing is that we took a wrong way there, which was steep and dangerous. After we got to the top, I was completely wet, but it was well worth it - the view ...

... day by listening to Dubrovnik Woodwind Trio (a basoonist, flutist, and clarinetist) go through the classical Mozart, Chopin, etc like cake. I even moved next to the flutist to get a peek of her music sheets. There were so many notes all jumbled together, it became a blur. I guess that dashed my notion of practicing my flute so I would be as good as she is. Even a quick toot on my flute nowadays makes me dizzy. Maybe that ...

She says: I think Mitch liked Budva (next entry) better than Kotor, but Mitch is crazy. Kotor rocked. We miraculously arrived there on the day we planned, despite being surprised by recent changes to the bus schedule from Bosnia to Montenegro (as in, the bus that supposedly left daily wasn't leaving until five days after we were due to depart). I liked it immediately - I mean, just look at the pictures. It's stunning. But in addition to its physical beauty, Kotor had Marco ...

... of which are extremely simple and borderline austere in their design. All along in between on the main streets are small, simple houses, decorated in varying bright shades of color. It makes for a fascinating wander and a pleasant surprise given the relative obscurity of the town elsewhere in the world. Seeing the lot of what Cetinje had to offer only wound up taking an afternoon, so it made for a perfect daytrip. I also managed to find a hilltop mausoleum that ...

... to how the other half live. And for $5-7 Euro you can actually go in and see how they live, although I was unamused when I work out afterwards that I was actually paying to visit a hotel. Still, the charge probably keeps the tourist masses out. Seeing some of the swanky bungalows and expansive views you realise why. There are a number of other ...