Hotel Blue Star Budva

... Okazalo sie jednak, ze ten koniec... to dopiero poczatek!
Nadchodzil wieczor, a my bez noclegu... Po pieknej wycieczce po Kotorze szukamy noclegow - apartament potrzebny od zaraz :))
Mijajac Budve / nie chcemy noclegu w tak duzym miescie / dojezdzamy do miasta Bar. Tam ponoc obowiazkowo nalezy zwiedzic Stary Bar.
Jedziemy i... nagle znajdujemy sie w Palermo - atmosfera, typy - wziete prosto z " Ojca Chrzestnego"!!
Niemniej jednak, pouczeni ...

... the North/West and Albania on the South East. In fact, some of the photos show Albanian Mountains. Well, Pete kinda got on a roll... and before we knew it, we were heading over the western mountains heading to Budva! And when i mentioned over the mountain... we really went over the bloody mountain! Talk about even higher and narrower then a lot of the roads i have been on in Canada!

We did stop for a couple Photo Ops... but the best part was catching the first ...

... it was only for my benefit he parked there at all. Darko wanted to show me Old Town; he already knew what the beautiful cobble stone streets looked like. We also went to the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica. I really don't remember much of Podgorica except for walking around the streets one night. Since we didn't swim there so it wasn't a high point for me. When our ten day stay in Montenegro was finished we all packed and returned the way we came in Darko's car. The day before ...

... B339, first come first served, will make a good home for a domestic animal no bigger than a rabbit. A local barman was our savior, making a couple of calls and leading us into the mountains above the city. We were introduced to the family, showed our room, where the bathroom was, and left to it. It didn't feel like any apartment we had stayed in before, the cupboards full of clothes were a give away sign that we were sleeping in someones spare room. Maybe Grandma had... gone ...

... cross between the Houston Rodeo, Sixth Street in Austin, a rave party, New Years Eve in Times Square and a Cher look-a-like contest. Pictures just would not have done it justice! 8/8 I decided to try a different beach today so I went to Jaz Beach. I asked several people how to get there and the best answer I could get was somewhere between needing a car and taking a taxi. I opted for the taxi at 12E only to find out later that it is only 1.50E by bus which run every 30 minutes ...

... he splashed water up at us. "You're the ones that wanted to come out here! One of you jump!" Shaking my head I walked up to the edge and jumped. The wind rushed past me, as the sea seemed to be approaching at extraordinary speeds. That was when I realized the cliff was much higher than I thought it was because I actually had time to reflect on how long it was taking me to hit the water. And then I was deep in the Adriatic, wrapped in a soft embrace ...

... to the one day cricket back home, it was still good to get a bit of sport into me. Once it was over I was ready to call it a night though, wanting to get a good nights sleep in before an early morning bus to Herceg Novi, where we would change to cross the border into Croatia and travel on up to Dubrovnik. Three days was enough time to get a taste of the Montenegrin coast, however I knew there was a lot more to the tiny nation I hadn't seen. Perhaps there would come another time.

... was to realize 3 minutes later that, in fact, the bus that we just watched roll away was the "only to Dubrovnik" that day. After a brief flirtation with the notion of hitchhiking to Croatia with Frankie the vagabond Scot who had only 25 euro, 50 unexchangeable bits of Romanian currency, and 2 weeks to get to and survive in Budapest, we had a good and needed chat to clear the air, settle on a plan, and set on a quest for Hippo Hostel, the only in Budva , in the ...

... we reached the top of Srd Hill. Phew!!! But the views were definitely worth the effort. On one side was the great views of Dubrovnik and its suburbs. On the other, we were able to see into Bosnia. The rest of Tuesday consisted of relaxing and people watching. On Wednesday morning, we tackled the walk around the Old Town wall. The entire trip, with numerous photo stops, took about 2 hours. The views from the wall into the city as well ...

... I would end up in Yugoslavia on this trip. It is surprisingly normal though, it feels just as European as anywhere else we've been. I had half expected the buildings to be riddled with bullet holes, and the economy to be in ruins, but the reality, at least here in the south, is nothing like that. I'm sure it would be another story if we were to visit Kosovo. My understanding is that currently, Montenegro and Serbia are both republics of Yugoslavia, but they ...