Villa Bono Budva

... we walked out of the bathroom, we noticed a feral cat really different than regular feral cats- this one reminded me of my cousin Tracey’s- with really long back legs, no tail, and a different build. (I think they are Egyptian cats?) The cat’s back feet were even much larger than normal. I’m sure he could jump really high. We tried to pet him but he wouldn’t let us. After this we knew we were ...

... is a long walk. Hostels are pot luck. Even the computer room is down in the owner's living room and the TV doesn't work. What the Hell, it's only one night and they give me coffee and baklava on arrival, so I can't complain. They aren't getting rich off me either. He gives me books to read, including a travel book by Henry Rollins in which he's hanging with Black Sabbath during their reunion ...

... teaching as a professor at a university. In retrospect, I now feel tremendous guilt and shame because of my advances towards Darko owing to Bojana my best friend sitting there with me vis-à-vis. Feeling a bit tipsy from drinking, Mladic continued making sexual advances towards urging me to go home with him. Darko laughed seemingly thinking Mladic's advances towards me were cute stating, "go ahead Jill, spend the night with Sharko, it's fine...Sharko's a good friend of mine...don ...

... I really missed having a normal sandwich and soup lunch. After we drove to Sveti Stefan Island which is really not much more than a hotel on a nice island. It was THE hotel for the rich and famous many years ago but over the years it lost it's appeal. Unfortunately the island/hotel is closed for renovation so we couldnt go. Good thing we didnt pay the $10Euro parking fee to find out it was closed!

So we may have walked into Albania but we exited in style. After taking bus to the border town a nice man approached us with a good deal to drive us to Montenegro in his Mercedes (the most popular car in Albania)! This guys was really nice..'Americans super' he exclaimed a few times during the journey!! Montenegro is gorgeous! I would say it looks just like out of 'Casino ...

... I try the hotel Rendez Vous, just in case. Didn't really want to stay in a hotel as everything is so expensive already, but didnt see what other option I had. Cue me getting lost again. Its only a tiny town I dont know I managed it! Finally got there, and was told that there was 1 room left, for 40 Euros, and that it wouldnt be ready for another hour. So I dumped my bag, and wandered around the town getting my bearings for an hour. Curiously, when I ...

... a double kayak moving easily over the waves. And the Kiwi who had joined our group was ahead of me. Everyone was to my left. It seemed no matter how hard I paddled, my kayak made little forward progress but constantly drifted to the right and away from the island. After what seemed like a very long time the island was upon us. We went out around the large rock, which jutted out, into the sea. I will not lie: those brief moments as I paddled around ...

... time lost, in a city otherwise devoid of information for tourists. I was in Albania, after all. This was one nice turn among many other turns. The road from Podgorica (Montenegro's capital) to Kotor is rife with switchbacks. It doesn't leave one disposed to find out that the price of one's accomodation has risen by sixty percent. It was either Bro's indignation or the fact that we were the only guests interested in staying the night at the hotel that ...

... the quaint, quiet, sunbaked village in our camera. Later, we wandered the turrets of the town fortifications, heavy and ponderous and at the ready with cannons poised to fire. We made our way to the local Romanesque style Greek Orthodox Church, undergoing touch-ups to the ochre and azure colors of its brilliant religious murals. To finish out the night, we grabbed dinner in a cafe on a broad square of the plaza, slurping down pasta with seafood while watching the beautiful ...

... je vyumyvany a skvelo zrekonstruovany. Je to asi tym, ze v zime roku 1991 ho takmer cely znicila Juhoslovanska armada. Na mapach mesta pri branach hradieb je mozne si pozriet rozsah znicenia Dubrovniku v tom case a takmer kazda budova mala poskodenu strechu a fasadu. Prave preto su vsetky strechy Dubrovnika take nove a ziaria cistotou. Cele stare ...