My host Naser also runs a water taxi and was taking a group of Poles out for a fish picnic. I was invited to join in for EUR25 including wine, raki, drinks etc. I was told to be ready at half-ten. As it turns out, it was half-to-ten (Indonesian style, as I learnt in Papua […]

Above:  I stayed in the old city, high above the crowds (in the background). I left my accommodation at Kotor as late as possible, around 1045, for Ulcinj. I didn’t want to go too early in case the room at Ulcinj wasn’t ready yet. I walked to the bus station and was on the bus […]

Wet Start at Kotor I woke at 0700 to more rain, thunder and lightning. I looked out the door and the weather was like the end of the world. I curled back into bed and wrote the day off. I told myself that the things I had planned are really “more of the same”; not […]

Above:  View of Kotor with cruiseliner; it was very humid with lots of cloud before a long torrential downpour. Buses from Podgorica to Kotor are frequent so I didn’t really need to think about what time I had to go to the station. I went down the road for a coffee and burek for breakfast […]

I had gone to bed around 2130 last night feeling really tired despite a “nothing” day. Hence I woke at 0530 with the sun streaming into my room. I decided to head off early to Ostrog on the 0700 train. As the train pulled away on time, my alarm on my phone rang. I had […]