Montenegro

After the cab ride to the border we stopped to get our passports stamped and then continued over on foot. Here is Nate somewhere between Albania and Montenegro. Another crazy cab drive followed.

We stayed overnight in Ulcinj which is fairly close to the Albanian border. The next day we jumped on a 7am bus to Kotor. The roads were pretty windy and a little girl on the bus was throwing up most of the way there. We managed to get stuck in yet another traffic jam but thankfully the stunning coastline made up for it all.

When we got in to Kotor we went straight to our hotel in the old town. The light in our bathroom wasn't working so we got upgraded to a much bigger room with the biggest TV ever! We did do some sight seeing but we managed to catch several interesting shows on German/Austrian MTV. The highlights included "Double Shot of Love" which is a show about two bisexual twins looking for love ('nuff said) and "Rock of Love" which is the one with Bret Michaels from Poison, also trying to find love.

Anyway, enough about TV (we don't see one often - not in English anyway). Here's a pic of a church in the old town with the mountain in the background.

Outside of the old town though it was pretty run down with lots of derelict houses etc which was a huge contrast to the old town where we saw some seriously rich looking people that must have just jumped off the cruise ship or one of the many yachts in the port.

Kotor is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site (there must be a few coz I reckon we've been to at least 15!). It has a city wall that is pretty impressive and the views are just amazing.

Here's a picture of Nate as we were climbing the wall.

They also had quite a few cats, but that was nothing on Croatia but I'll get to that in the next post. I think I'm going to do a special set on Flickr which is just "Cats Around the Globe". Here's one of the Montenegrin variety.