Hotel Max Prestige Budva

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

... those dealings are organized crime. Upon receiving my Euros from the men, I walked away back to see if Bojana was through with the dentist; she was. I excitedly told Darko that I had successfully managed to exchange American dollars for Euros thinking he'd be pleased with me; he wasn't. Darko was always very protective of me. Instead of commending me he immediately got very angry; scolding me he said exchanging money illegally in the streets of Montenegro was both illegal and ...

... and rest stops along the way. Unfortunately the uppermost fort was quite run-down, littered with sheep and cat dung. Not sure when was the last time someone cleaned the mountainside. During the summer tourist season? Maybe that's why they did not collect the regular admission fee. At nightfall I met up with Tony and one of his friends who recently purchased a flat in old town Kotor. It was a good investment as the price of the ...

... 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 ...

... so though, it seems like a pipe-dream today, but the town definitely has a lot of ghosts and faded grandeur lurking about. And at just over an hour's drive from Kotor by bus, it's an easy place to take in while in the area. Thanks to the altitude, it isn't anywhere near as sweltering as Budva or Kotor, just down the mountainside. Even still, the sun was pretty direct and intense, just without the accompanying humidity. First impressions of the town are that it's a ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... I quickly sensed that something was awry, based on the consistency and taste. After another moment, I realized that the entire elaborate "salad" was merely a repository for our butter, which I unceremoniously spat from my mouth with an exclaim of disgust. No harm, no foul, and LJ was quite entertained by the entire episode, especially since she was mere moments from enduring the experience herself. Well, eventually our mussels came, but they came simultaneous to the ...

... 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 ...

... had been living in Belgrade as a teacher since 1956! They were off traveling together! We heard even more perspective on the civil wars in Yugoslavia...This woman also had to leave her home with her family during some of this period. Back home in Canada the news was too damn busy telling us about the latest OJ Simpson episode in those days, probably so we would have an excuse to be uninformed and therefore would just mainly go along with what our governments decided to do or not do.