Rozafa Hotel Shkoder

... nach wurde eine Frau (Rozafa war ihr Name, so heisst die Burg auch heute noch) lebend in die Befestigung eingemauert als Opfergabe an die Goetter. Sie bat darum, ihre Brueste nicht einzumauern, so dass sie weiterhin ihr Kind stillen konnte.<br><br>Inzwischen ist das Wetter sehr dunstig aber schwuel und warm.<br><br>Gruss<br>Ralf<br>

... Montenegro not be a tourist destination??<br><br>Other than that, we explored Budva - the old town and the beach front, met up with our friend Kylie for a little while, and hung out at her hostel with some other tourists. Right as we were leaving, there was a massive storm that came thought, thunder, lightening, the works. It carried us all the way through 3 buses to Tirana, Albania. But at least it wasn't cold. :)<br>

... we didn't get out of the car. We drove up to the gates and Darko pointed out, "look Jill, this is an important military facility." Darko always sarcastically smirked as he pointed out these places to me. The only place we got out was in front of the bombed out Chinese embassy in Beograd. There were Serbian military officers in front of the embassy. I was amazed owing to I always had thought bombed out buildings were totally demolished. But standing in front of the Chinese embassy ...

... the bridge?" "Not yet" "We have the bridge" Ok...it looked like I was going to have to see that bridge. I said goodbye and headed up the street, turned left at the top and got my first sight of the bridge. It was a huge thing, glistening white like the sail of a ship beneath the blue skies and October sun. That really is about all there is to say about the Millennium Bridge. I walked across it, and that's about it- bridges ...

So, from Therese and Jovica's we nursed a hangover by a little bay 10km up the road on Day 1, then got back into it, taking this road built by the Austrians in the 1880s that switchbacked up to the top of the mountain (1700m high). Check out the picture we took from a postcard of the road. The van did us proud - most of it was first gear stuff, passing cars and buses with an inch to spare and an abyss to ...

... on a bus with 43 people heading to places like Prague, Budapest, war torn Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia. Somewhere in the Czech Republic a pair of brothers asked the group if anybody would be interested in driving to Albania later in the trip. Nobody really took them seriously at the time. Not even the tour guide who probably thought it was just the crazy talk of some hung over youngsters. I must admit I was intrigued with the opportunity and ...

We left Dubrovnik and drove towards the border, Astro and Suse had left earlier than us, and gave us a phone call to tell us to expect some issues at the border with insurance. After our earlier Bosnia experience we thought that all the country's we had to buy insurance for would be that easy. Unfortunately Montenegro don't seem to like vans, and tried to charge Astro 138 euros for insurance. He ...

... and if you are familiar with rafting, rapids are classed in categories 1 - 6, with 6 being sooo dangerous it's unraftable. A "1" is more like a ripple, something fun to tube down. So here we were, all excited and prepped to hit some high rapids, with wetsuits and helmits on, adrenaline rushing at the anticipation, and the further and further we went down the river, the more we began to realize that this was it. There were no big rapids, no adventure, no ...

... from the ruined battlements makes up for that. Final stop walking northwards was the micro-pebbled beach of Mogren - a much better option for swimming, cliff diving or just lolling about in the sunshine under thickly-layered cliffs. Further up the coast is the fjord and town of Kotor. After missing Norway this trip I wasn't expecting to see a fjord ...

... of Albert a bit and he raced to the window to see what had happened.......turned out to be just a bunch of mountain goats! One of them had decided to climb around and jump from rock to rock...as they do! The old town in Kotor has city walls that go from the top of the mountain straight into the sea. The only drawback to this place is that the bay receives no new water because of the tiny mouth a few kilometres away so the water isn't that desirable for swimming.