Hotel Platani Trebinje

... only club in town, Maximus, which according to wikipedia is the largest in Montenegro. It was packed, so I can only believe that nearly half the country and every tourist was there. Here is what I learned: when a place is dark & ...

... Almost missed the 2nd bus because the cooking took quite a while. The trip to Kotor was probably the highlight of whole trip. You go around some beautiful bays, past some man made islands and huge mountains in the back ground. The dirty windows on the bus didnt help picture taking so we hoped that on the way back it would be better. The town was small but beautiful. We mostly walked around the harbour, and rivers ...

... the Medieval Walled Town dates back to the 12th century. There is a trail of over 1500 steps going up to an old fortress at the top, passing many shrines on the way, and no we did not climb it! Montenegro is a small country, about the size of Connecticut, surrounded by Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania. Population of 620,000. It has a 5-6 month swimming season and the mean sea temp is above 18 degrees C with 2700 hours of sun per year-but for us it ...

... Kotor was that there was a forest fire up in the mountains, so it was pretty hazy for our 2 days in the beautiful setting of a town. RANDOM Do you know what Montenegro gets excited about during the Olympics? WATER POLO! So much so, that the National team is on billboards around the country for advertisements, and it is the lead story when the National team plays. Layton sat with a group of locals in the bus station at Niksic and watched both the semi-finals games ...

... I had to hoist myself over this massive boulder blocking the way. But I eventually met up with the real path and made my way back to the bottom. Throughout most of the hike I was the only person I could see on the ruins, but there were plenty of goats around. At first I was a bit apprehensive with all the goats there, but as soon as I realized they'd run away from me as I walked near them I eased up. It was rather smelly at points with all the goat **** there.

... wrong when there are only 2 people coming into Trebinje. I roamed around the dirt 20x20' for a bus schedule or information...nothing. There were 2 closed offices. I asked the magazine kiosk and though she didn't understand English, she gesticulated there were no written bus schedules. They didn't need bus station personnel because everyone knew the bus schedules through telepathy. That bit of info took about 20 minutes to extract ...

... so it's a great place to use as a base. Myself, I'm here for a couple nights, with the intention of starting early tomorrow. There's a fortress up on the cliffs overlooking town - a hike that's a little too much for a midday walk in the summer sun - so I'm hitting that first thing. Then I'll pass the day in Cetinje, Montenegro's old historic capital. I would actually spend a couple more nights beyond that, but there's one negative to my visit here: my ...

... back to trying to eat their dinner... unsuccessfully and somewhat messily! Arrived in Split next morning where we spent a few hours wandering around the cool markets, buying cheap sunnies while waiting for our ferry to Hvar Island... We were pretty tired and jaded when we finally walked off the boat at hvar only to be inundated with crazy Croats yelling at us to come stay at their place... luckily a pretty blue eyed girl caught ...

... qu'un ancien pays cree un peu artificiellement et dont le nom rappelle de lourdes souffrances, allait faire de moi quelqu'un de diplomate. Erreur. Beaucoup de Croates ont tellement ete touches par la guerre qu'ils ne veulent plus rien savoir de tout ce qui pourrait les lier a leur voisin, surtout Serbes. Mais il ne faut pas en vouloir a Mirko. Il vient de Zadar, une ville sauvagement detruite par les Serbes. Pas que ceux-ci soient les seuls a avoir commis ...

... the old city today. There are these walls that protect the city and we walked about 2 km around the darn thing, so we basically walked all around the city. the views were trippy, but it was more of a trip when we went cliff diving off of these rocks. Fricken scary i tell you, but it was nice hitting warm water!! aaahhhhh! nice! It looks like that's about it that has happened thus far. I will be spending half a day in dubrovnik ...