Hotel Mogren Budva

... smoke until our next shower.<br><br>In our 4 months of traveling over the last year, this was the first time we took a train ride in a real sleeper cabin. It was a tiny room (6&#8217;L x 6&#8217;W x maybe 8&#8217; H) with two triple bunk beds. We had the middle two bunks on each side. Two other men had the bunks below us and no one was on the very top. It was cool because the cabin provides us all sheets, pillows with pillow ...

... to be with all the cobblestones and narrow streets.<br><br>When we finally got back to Podgorica at 9, we decided to hit up one of the best restaurants in the country for some traditional Lamb and Popeci. I had the Lamb, which was amazing, but i also tried the Popeci, which was also very good. Oh and of course, no dinner is without tasty Montenegrin wine! :P<br><br>By the time we got home from our excursion, all i could really to is find my way to my bed and sleep! <br>

... of homeless ethnic Albanians being ethnically cleansed to Albania, I did not see one ethnic Albanian or Roma homeless on the streets anywhere. All seemed normal only ten meters from the Kosovo border. After a day of swimming and partially nude sunbathing, we returned to the hotel. Insofar as sequence of events, at this junction in time it was the last few days I spent in Montenegro; it's difficult now to remember the exact timeline of events. In other words, I remember visiting Old ...

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 ...

... reason there is a ton of rebar all around this beach, both on shore and in the water so it required extreme caution and water shoes. I finished Harlan Coben's Tell No One which was another good mystery from him. 8/9 I wanted to see more of Croatia that just the touristy beach towns so I took an excursion to a couple of towns inland from Budva. I was the only English speaker on board the bus but the guide gave me a brief explanation of what we were seeing. Most of the crowd ...

... it was recognized as the official capital of an independent Montenegro, until its absorption by the Central Powers in World War I. It obviously flourished during that short period as the population shot up and new elegant constructions went up all over town. The most interesting are probably its old embassies, which run the gamut from humble and compact to ostentatious and elaborate. The latter are in direct contrast with the town's old churches and hillside monastery ...

... out over the blue Adriatic and disappeared with an ignominious plop. I swam to the shore and made my way back up there. During that process, the Kiwi had shamed both Travis and I by running and jumping off as if the height were nothing. When I reached the cliff, Daniel was trying to talk Travis into jumping again. I stood there, listening to their conversation, most likely chiming in with my opinion every now and then. Finally, in a resigned ...

... randomness of sleeping at a place run by a Cal guy who attracts EPers in a city I'd never heard of in a country I didn't realize existed, we played 8-bit Nintendo baseball, watched Anchorman, and tool the international crew out to a Eastern European dance club right out of Eurotrip , with a full 2L of something strong for only a euro and a half! Late the next morning I had a walk into town on the beat of my iPod to exchange our thousands of Serbian dinars for about ...

... settled in our new table, where the climate was better. Of course, by this time, our mussels were cold, due both to the length of time they'd been sitting, and the fact that they'd been sitting outside. We asked to have them heated up, and got a whole lot of attitude in return. Eventually, our request was filled, and the mussels were fantastic (as the prawns had been as well). Before the other dishes (risotto and gnocchi) were delivered, the woman tried to remove the remnants of ...

... faithfully replicated the style of the original structures, and it now basically serves as a tourist attraction. They did an excellent job of making the old town seem authentic. If I hadn't read that, I would never have guessed. The scenery in the whole region is amazing, and the town definitely has a resort type vibe. There are lots of beer gardens along the beachfront. It is a lot cheaper than Croatia, but just as lovely. One minor problem for us...it ...