Hotel Marija Kotor

... 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 ...

... as well as the Serbian Orthodox Churches at St. Luke’s Square. After lunch we decided it was time for our usual “hike to the top”. Kotor has probably the most amazing fortification walls we’ve ever seen. They aren’t as massively thick as Dubrovnik’s, but they climb up the side of the very steep hills and zigzag at incredible angles. For 2 euro we gained access to these walls and started our ...

... on to Shkodra. I just needed to find how to get there and was just relying on my gut feelings how to go about it.

Finding someone who speaks English early on a Sunday is like finding a needle in a haystack, but guess what, I found that needle. I would walk up to random people and ask, "Shkodra?" I would get a sympathetic look most of the time but no help. Thing is in Tirana there are no official bus stops and the "stops" are ...

... again. Listening to the 80s classics, well into my second pint now everything is peaceful and I am hoping to go white water rafting in the mountains tomorrow. Not sure whether I am happy to be travelling solo again I have realised that this trip is very much different to the one I had a little under two years ago in Centro America. Yes the setting is quite different but most surprisingly I think I have changed a lot since than, how so I’m still trying to figure out. Stay tuned.

... This particular spot had been a military strategic point for whatever empire was ruling Montenegro. The Venetians actually paid them to stand guard, and act as protectors of this point and when the Venetians fell the town there was left with little money as it was their sole source of income. Neither Gabe nor I had ever seen a fjord and I was excited; but when we arrived it didn't look as wildly different as I had imagined ...

... and parked. I couldn't believe it! It was like a dream, We walked down around Budva, Darko pointing out everything. We stopped to have a drink at one of the many outdoor bar/café's and listened to the live entertainment while we sipped our drinks. Then I went to buy another bathing suit at a small shop when Darko told me to follow him and Bojana into the most amazing bar I've ever seen, anywhere in the world. The bar itself was actually a small island rocky island; to reach it one ...

... service in Ukraine and were taking a month to travel around the Balkans before heading home. Kotor is a beautiful town set in a fjord and surrounded by mountains. The main attraction is the old fortress that was built up into the mountainside. The part on the relatively flat ground, the Old Town, is still in working condition with lots of restaurants, shops, and apartments, while the part built up on the hill is now a collection of ruins. My favorite ...

... for a very affordable price). A sit down, very pleasant multi course meal, all for less than 15 Euro for both of us. Can't beat that, a wonderful little ending to a very long and interesting day. Next morning, we got up very earlier and scurried back to the bus station to take a small van up to Zagljak, the town that sits alongside Durmitor National Park. Very much like the ride in southern Bosnia, the roads were narrow and windy ...

... mussels, in their delicious tomato-based sauce. We explained that we wanted to keep the sauce for the gnocchi, however, and she seemed to understand. Moments later, our risotto was delivered, along with... an entire additional order of the mussels. Mind you, we could hardly finish the first round. We asked her what this was about and she confidently informed us that we had ordered a second round of the mussels. We told her with equal confidence that this was assuredly not the ...

... pension at a great seafood place overlooking old town and the bay...the seafood here was fantastic...the oysters we tried were very different...but very good... Today we took a boat to a nerby island and realxed on the beaches all day...all the beaches are rock however...so its a bit differnet from sand...just another expiereince...but we have gotten some great sun and are enojying the relaxation... We are going to slowly move up the coast of Croatia and eventually make it ...