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April 3rd 2006

Published: August 11th 2007

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Kotor Bay

Is the bay of Kotor in Montenegro (or Crna Gore as they call it), with at the very end the walled medieval village of Kotor. And I appreciated it more than Dubrovnik which I thought was very commercial and a bit like Disneyland, whereas Kotor is more authentic. Stayed at a private home stay in old man Marco's kitchen... So no problem cooking... Ha, ha, ha... You can climb up to a fortress overlooking the bay and have spectacular views, in fact the whole ride through the fjord was fantastic and the coast of Montenegro is also great... Almost, dare I say it, better than Croatia...

Met an american while climbing down from the fort and we spend the evening drinking because the whole trekking up a mountain bussiness makes one thirsty..

Anyway the next day left for Budva and Cetinje... Didn't stay long in Budva which is another walled town, but over commercialised again, this time for the Serbian clientele... Cetinje on the other hand was charming in a faded kind of way... It used to be the former royal capital of Montenegro (that is pre-WW1) and there are all these crumbling embassies from long gone nations (like

Kotor

View of Kotor from the citadel

the Austro-Hungarian Empire...) and the former royal palace... Stayed the night there and today took several busses to Tirana in Albania... And managed to get ripped off along the way, but not for much... That's travelling for you anyway...

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