Montenegro

After Albania, we headed to Montenegro.  Our destination was the Bay of Kotor, but I didn't know for sure if we were going to make it that day. One reason: JG was agressively driving through the mountains and the rain; two, there were lots of narrow roads, some of which were under construction; three, it was so beautiful that we kept stopping along the way to look (and take pictures, of course).   

above: the coast on our left; below: mountains on our right 

short detour: Orthodox monastery on the coast near Petrovac



Above: Orthodox icon at the entrance of Budva...it's a little fuzzy because of the heavy rain. Thanks to the weather, though, we had the old town of Budva to ourselves!

Three of us were on this road trip, and all three of us had Montenegro as one of the highlights of the trip. That's pretty amazing considering it rained about 75% of the time we were there. Maybe it was because we had more time to relax there than any of the other places (we were in Montenegro for TWO days!), or maybe it was just that the whole country looked like a postcard. 

 view of the Bay of Kotor from our balcony in Muo

old town Kotor; at night the fortress in the mountains is lit up

more clouds than tourists in old town Kotor

On our way out of Montenegro, we still kept stopping to look. One place we stopped to look at more than once was Perast and its man-made island, Lady of the Rock.

above: town of Perast; below Lady of the Rock island, created in the 15th century