Hotel Azimut Budva

... unerschwinglich fuer die Einheimischen. Nun, ueber die Albaner hatten meine Gastgeber auch nicht viel Gutes zu sagen, es sei doch so viel Geld in den Kosovo geflossen und all die Millionen sind verschwunden. Nur korrupte Politiker dort (Montenegriner sind ja Serben, in fact, die Bombardierung von Dubrovnik wurde von den Montenegrinern durchgefuehrt).<br><br>Gruss<br>Ralf<br >

... buy neither lunch nor anything else and we all possessed a ravenous hunger for lunch. Ignoring Darko's warnings not to go wondering myself, I left the dentist office under the pretense of going for a walk while Bojana had her dental work completed. Before Darko could catch me I was gone. I walked up the main street about one mile and began asking people in English where I could exchange United States currency for Euros. I came upon a well dressed ethnic Albanian high school student ...

Whilst other mediterranean cities like St Tropez and Monaco have been experiencing a cut in half in the amount of yachts arriving there over the summer of 2008 due to the economic slow-down, the small marina of Budva is relatively packed with multi-million euro costing pleasure boats ...

... that string. But no nibbles. It made me remember the family off Newport Beach fishing with day-old bread who was pulling up bigger fish than Mr. I and me with our fancy fishing rod/squid baits. There were no private boats going out to Lady of the Rocks. But I gazed at it from the restaurant. Tried their fish soup. While I was washing my hands in the restroom, the once hourly minibus passed by. Bad timing. I had to hike back to ...

... down and I saw that I was standing on his toes (he was in flip flops)! I felt horrible and apologized profusely. Not having feeling in my right foot, I had no idea. Whooops! Sveti Stefan Island is very famous since a small sandbar connects the island to the mainland. The sandbar is only about 100 meters but the island has old buildings and makes for a great photo. Unfortunately the island is closed now because it has been sold to a private developer. San Nicolas Island ...

... that the sun was still relatively low, so I was in the shade for most of the hike. All the same, I was soaked with sweat by the time I got to the top (about 45 minutes later). Kotor ultimately being a beach resort town though, that meant it was perfectly ok for me to strip off my shirt and chill out while taking in the view from there. I feel for the poor sods that chose to come up an hour later. I saw a total of four other people on the way up, but there were loads ...

... times. "This is it." He said as we finally reached the top. I peered over the edge. We were much higher than I had thought the jump would be. I took a quick step back. I had jumped from cliffs before: in Arizona I jumped off a cliff in Havasupai and into the green Havasu creek that runs through the canyon. In Croatia I had jumped off a cliff into the Adriatic from a similar island near Dubrovnik. But though both of those cliffs had been high, they ...

... the tickets, we headed into town where Ryan, true to his duty, got a pizza in him (Bulgaria didn't count on his quest because he never left the train). We walked back in a hurry beneath the light rain to catch the train that doesn't exist to Bar on an imaginary rail like that is made of moonbeams and powered by unicorns. Scheduled for 8:50pm, it predictably didn't leave until 11:00, probably because they were still building the tracks. Striking gold with an empty ...

... It was all very good. The service, on the other hand, was indescribably bad, but I shall try. Things were weird right from the start. We arrived and asked for a table. We were told by a seemingly moody woman that we could eat outside. It was a bit cool out, and we saw empty tables inside, but she said they were reserved. We asked about waiting for one, and her response was not helpful, but also betrayed weak command of English, to the extent that I did not hesitate to say aloud ...

... about the upcoming vote on independence as things could change for the worse... Their hatred towards Muslims amazed me. Alot of their troubles are blamed on the Muslim populations around them. But, I must say, that they don't have alot of sympathy towards the US or it's present 'war on terror' as the NATO bombings upon Belgrade in 1999 are still quite fresh in their minds. Nada said it was a horrible 72 days, as the jet planes rocketed by overhead toward Belgrade. We found ...