Villa Maki Tivat

... and wool blankets. So we all got to sleep during the ride. (Well, Andre and the two guys got to sleep.) The train was really loud for some reason (between the tunnels we went through and the loud rail itself) so I didn’t get to much sleep. Also, we got woken up by police once at the Montenegro border for customs and then twice more at the Serbian border for passport checks and visa stamps and customs. It was a long night.

... tower for fine views across Perast and the Bay of Kotor. <br><br>The main draw for Perast are the 2 little islands sitting out in the bay. The first is Lady of the Rock Island, which is man-made (more on that below), and the other is the Island of St. George. Both have churches on them, and Lady of the Rock Island is open to tourists. To get there, you must hire a boater to whisk you out there. For 5 euro/person, we got a ride to the island ...

... Perhaps unfortunately, this is not a difficult task, but it had the result that I was not in the least interested in heading to bed at the designated time. Fortunately, I was able to round up some likeminded companions and we investigated ...

... next morning we all got into Darko's blue Audi (car) and left for his Father's house. I remember arguing with Darko about wanting to bring lots of luggage with me and he replied I didn't need all that stuff and I could only bring one normal sized bag with me and I had to leave the rest of my things at his apartment; I did. On the way to his father's, Darko made a few important stops for the purpose of giving me the grand tour. We only stopped briefly at some military installations ...

... buying up all the nice houses on the coast, he then returned to my question "But some while ago, Ireland play Montenegro here, and you can imagine what happened. A thousand Irish people want beer." No wonder he wasn't doing any work, he didn't have to. Once you've had a thousand Irish football fans visit your pub, you never really need to work again (once you've cleared up the blood and vomit). "It was good" Constantine ...

... to the fortress and Castle of St. John. Again, we really enjoyed this because it helps you take in all the surroundings. Oh, and we are back to cheaper living...the entrance to the climb was only 2 Euro! Nice! After a well-deserved shower and cooling off, we had dinner in the old town. The old town is not very big and easy to just roam around to see really old churches and old mansions that are now cool hotels. This city has a nice vibe. The only drawback to our time ...

... of the city is the fortress ruins on the mountainside at night, when they are all lit up forming an arch of light on the dark mountain. My main goal on Wednesday was to hike up and down the ruins on the mountainside. It was a nice hike, taking about 3 hours total to go up, down, and explore the ruins a bit. Though on the way down, I'm pretty sure I inadvertently veered off the path since it wasn't exactly as clear or well laid out as the path up. At one ...

... company, of which noone spoke a lick of english, which made me wonder how he would guide us around the rapids and instruct us on what stroke to do... my concerns were eventually put aside, not because of the guide's ability or improvment of communication, but because after 30 minutes on the river, Alex and I started to wonder if we had signed up for "whitewater rafting" or just "rafting". Basically, the river we were on had nothing over a class 1 ...

... travelling 5 weeks ago, so in keeping with that, we met a bunch of people at our hostel and started up the drinking games with a ripper game called King's Cup. Following this, we headed to a Canadian-run bar called Fresh with terrific "beer towers" - three litres of beer in a tower with a tap down the bottom, the idea being that you place it in the middle of the table and pour your own beers. They even put a column of ice in the beer when it's half gone, to keep it cold. Good night.

... pictures). After spending an hour at the top (getting a feel for the place, apparently, he was probably just exhausted from the climb up!) he did some exploring on the way down and ended up at some turrets. He saw some black and white fur through one of the archers windows and crept up to it (probably hoping it was some wild animal). When he was about 2m away, the 'furred thing' jumped and seemed to disappear off the edge of the mountain. Frightened the ...