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Kotor!!
... if I hadn't already spent a week in Croatia I would've loved it here, except I had, so I didn't really think it was anything special so to speak, but still incredibly beautiful. It was the first time I had really come across the use of district numbering rather than street. So it took me a while to walk around the maze of the old town trying to find my B&B. I had no idea at first then figured out that you kind of have to ...
Loving Montenegro
... escape. At first I wasn't sure if it was the people or Molly's very southern English accent and goofy way of being, but we had enough interactions to know that it was the people. It was a nice change of pace from very often rude-seeming and disinterested other Balkans locals we'd met. We got to our hostel and were showed up to our room on the attic floor with 8 comfy beds. Molly and I went to find food and then headed back to the room to have a read ...
Has anyone seen James Bond?
Day 12
Kotor, Montenegro
I first became aware of Montenegro while watching the James Bond movie Casino Royal. Since then, it has shown up in several spy-related programs as an area of intrigue.
Kotor was all I had envisioned, and more. We got up early, and were on deck by 7AM to watch our entry into the spectacular fjord that provides sheltered access to the harbor. Because of the early hour, photos did not do justice to ...
A hiccup in time
... him.....the General. Our day started on was it literally some extremely winding roads that Danny our hostel guide explained to us were actually used for rally car circuits. It was easy to see why. We left Kotor, but it seemed to take over an hour to even get the city out of our sights. It just kept getting smaller and smaller, but was always in sight. Our tour was basically taking us to the main areas of interest within the country, such ...
The bay, the cow, some goats, and a little snow
... for a restaurant mentioned in our guidebook just outside the city when we came across an enormous car park. The entrance and exit barriers were up so we drove in and headed for a building at the far end to see where we were. The building was a tourist information office, but it was closed. We may have been beside a park but couldn’t see much at this point. We asked some people who were talking in the car park if it was OK to park there and one of them, ...


