Blogs from Kotor, Montenegro, Europe - page 11

Guess what! Yes its raining again. But this isn't going to dampen our spirits, so after breakfast we start our journey of driving round the bay. "Hope the roads are better the other side." The roads were flooded as we drove through Koto it hard to believe they started building this place around 800 BC but never got round to building drains We drove round to Perast, which is a very pretty coastal village. And has some very interesting architecture. The whole area has plenty of architecturaly interesting buildings Once there we headed for the museum for a little insght of the area but came away non the wiser and headed for lunch. A small restaurant with seating on a pier leading out into the sea. Will finish this one too... read more

Saturated Souls After a good night sleep we wake up to what is reminiscent of the weather in old blighty. Cloudy and overcast, but we have breakfast and put our lives in the hands of the gods and drive to Kotor. We had been in Kotor for no more than an hour when we were enticed into the Citadella roof top restaurant for pizza' due to the yummy smell coming from there. The Citadella Hotel has a great roof top restaurant that is well worth a visit if only for the views. But a cool beer and pizza makes the venture all the more pleasurable. Not that a cool beer is needed, more like a hot chocolate. After our lunch we decided to head for them hills' and tackle the fortress wall. On the way to ... read more

Leonardo Di Caprio is lost on the backpacker trail in Bangkok when he hears word of a magical Beach located off the Southern coast of Thailand. Like most backpackers without a plan would, he follows this secret advice and is justly rewarded for his search. And though he narrowly escapes death, gets chased by a shark, is exiled from the hippy commune and is driven mad, it makes for a good story. Such were our hopes when we heard word of beautiful fjord and medieval town located 3 hours bus journey away from Dubrovnik in the newly established Republic of Montenegro. The advice given by a fellow traveller, was equally as cryptic as the map given to Leo by the heroine junky, ‘Daffy’, in The Beach. We were to take an early morning bus into ... read more

We managed to drag ourselves out of bed this morning only with the promise of our included breakfast. Despite knowing full well that hotel breakfast are always disappointing we still had high hopes. We got a cup of tea and an omlette that was swimming in grease. I couldn't stomach mine so early in the morning so Rob had mine as well. We sat and waited for the plate of cheese/meat to come that we had seen other people eating but it never did. We eventually figured out that it was either or but not both. Utterly disappointed we left to gather our things. We checked out, paid and had our passports returned. (they are the only place that have kept our passports the entire time we've been traveling.) we asked if we could leave our ... read more

Montenegro formaba parte de la antigua Yugoslavia y siguió siendo parte de ésta, junto con Serbia, después de la Guerra de los Balcanes en la que Croacia, Eslovenia y Bosnia-Herzogobina obtuvieron su independencia...Posteriormente formó con Serbia la Unión de Serbia y Montenegro hasta que en junio del 2006 obtuvo la independencia...gran parte de su territorio es montañoso y con unos paisajes de gran belleza.... read more