Hotel Vrmac Kotor

... and sister back in Utah. After the conference call be began playing a drinking games. All of the drinks were mixed very lightly since he's not use to drinking. But, even so after awhile he was really feeling it and by about 1 AM, he was ready to go to bed. <br><br>He was a lot of fun and this party in my opinion was one of the best that we have had aboard. He's a good friend and I'm glad I was able to celebrate this day with him.

... Montenegro. As we progressed beyond Herceg Novi, however, the beautiful Bay of Kotor appeared out our bus window and we were treated to impressive views of the near vertical cliffs rising right out of the bay. In many ways the Bay of Kotor does resemble the fjords of Norway &#8211; although from what we hear the geological processes which shaped the Bay of Kotor are not the glacial forces responsible for those fjords.<br><br>The bus ...

The past few days I have felt like I am on some kind of Amazing Race episode trying to get from Lake Ohrid to Sarajevo. So I lingered a little too long at Lake Ohrid (well worth it), and I needed to make up the time to eventually get to Osijek for my 5 Euro Ryanair flight out of the Balkans. I looked at taking the train from Sarajevo to Poland so I could stay down here longer but the cheapest ticket is over $300 for a 26 hour ride from ...

... the back with no view of the oncoming traffic.<br> After we pulled into Kotor I walked into the old city and found my hostel within the labyrinth of narrow alleyways ( pure luck considering I spent the rest of the day trying to find things in this evil maze). <br> I spent a few hours being lost and checking out the waterfront in front of the city, very beautiful yet perhaps a little less appreciated due to my past weeks desensitisation. After lunch I decided to attack the 1300 ...

This morning Gabe had to get up early to go put money in the meter for parking and then get breakfast stuff. I got to sleep in and was totally spoiled as he made breakfast and then cleaned up. Montenegro lies to the south of Dubrovnik and our book had foretold that while the landscape is more rugged the Communist-style architecture is often drab, and, while almost a third of every building was destroyed in Dubrovnik almost nothing was ...

... said proudly, "this is Budva Jill, that's where we are going." It was many times more beautiful that Paris or Manhattan at night and situated in a valley about a mile and a half wide forcing the Montenegrin peninsula farther out. It was a remarkably amazing sight, Budva itself being lit up with a wide variety of bright lights surrounded by an aura of pitch black. By this time Bojana started complaining to Darko to move his car in more because someone may come around the sharp ...

... might see, with its dramatic walls climbing the mountains, appearing hewn from the very rock on which they stand. Vladimir told us that the fortifications include more than 3000 steps and that 'only crazy tourists' climb them. He laughed and said 'look at them' pointing out some tourists far off in the distance, struggling around the walls. Vladimir then took us on a whirlwind tour of the old town of Kotor, showing us the main sites and explaining ...

... Scientific and Cultural Organization, which helped rebuild many of the cities which we visited). Our afternoon plans were to go whitewater rafting Cool....but soon it seemed we weren't whitewater rafting, but just rafting, as the class rapids would only get to about a 1.5 or 2 if you stretch it a bit. Tammy was disappointed that after all the wetsuits, helmets, etc that we didn't have the rush of class 3 or 4 rapids, which we ...

... stops, as we sorely found out; after slogging our burlap rucksacks up burly stone switchbacks for 40 minutes in 35 degree heat, and then a failed attempt at scrambling up a densely wooded cliff below the highway, we found a series of short rides that got us to the beach resort town of Cavtat. By this point C-Beth and I were literally phasing in and out of consciousness ...

... we arrived, there she was, our non-english/german/italian/spanish/fren ch speaking hostess. The room was huge with a fabulous view of the mountains, however memories of south east asia came flooding back when we discovered no running water! What I though was a huge rubbish bin was in fact a huge vessel of water to bucket flush the loo. I thought I'd stick to bottled water to brush my teeth! We walked into town towards the main gate and were disappointed to find a bus load of ...