Today I went to Montenegro, a small country to the South of Croatia. We woke up incredibly early to start our drive. It turned out that we really saw the majority of the country through our driving. We began by leaving Croatia and passing through Montenegro’s customs. We drove for about 1 ½ hours to the town of Kotor, a lovely walled-city on a bay. We had a guided tour and then some free time. We had to switch back over from the Kuna to Euro, because they use the Euro in Montenegro, then we sat down and had a coffee. It was already hot so we had an iced-coffee. The gypsies and beggars in Kotor were really bad. We had several children come up to us while we drank our coffee and just put their hands out for money. They would stand there, too, for 5 minutes. It’s really sad but it is a business there and you cannot support their use of children to get peoples money.
From Kotor, we climbed a huge mountain, 3000 meters to be precise. It was really scary and many of us were having trouble with the heights. Not only was the mountain high, but there were 25 sharp turns to get to the small town we were visiting. At everyone of these turns a portion of the bus would be hanging over the cliff, our tour guide said this was normal—I don’t believe her. After a very long and scary ride, we reached a small ( and I mean very small) village called Cindjurie. It was really cute and they served us sandwiches of ham and cheese. We had some free time to walk around and my friend, Catherine, and I found a little stand selling homemade baked goods. We bought these cookies that were like Mexican Wedding Cake cookies and jam between them. Delicious, they practically melted in your mouth.
We left Cindjurie, for another long drive to Budva, a town that James Bond, “Casino Royale,” was filmed in. We had more food, supposedly lunch although I would argue what we ate in Cindjurie was lunch. We had a short amount of time to walk around too. This was a very touristy place, and reminded me a little of Mexico. We left Budva and took a 2 ½ hour drive back to the boat.
Once back on the boat, Catherine and I went into Old town for dinner. We found a great place, Mea Culpa, for dinner. Suprisingly, Croatia has had the best pizza of my whole trip (even Naples)!!! We had a ham, bacon, and gorgonzola pizza. It was incredible. We also had our fair share of wine since it was only 10 Kuna a glass, that means only $2. After dinner, we met some friends to go to a local night club, Fuego. It was really fun and we danced until 3 in the morning. As we were walking home from the club, Dubrovnik is incredibly safe, it began to pour, so we hailed a cab and rode home.
What a wonderful day exploring both Montenegro and Croatia!!
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