Kotor Malibu

We spent a day in Kotor, a small town with Venetian / Dalmatian ancestry and a 13th century Fort on a hill overlooking the largest Fjord in Europe.

Here's a link to a google map.


About 1500 steps lead to the top of the hill, although some of it is just loose rocks, and not really steps. The climb was well worth it, fantastic views, and a good bit of exercise. (We haven't really been doing a lot, but it is a holiday.)

We found a nice bar right on the beach called "Malibu". They had nicely priced large glasses of good local beer for €1. Shailee and Lib decided it might be nice to have a malibu and pineapple.... "Can we have a Malibu and Pineapple?" ... "NO!". They don't have malibu. One of the girls was even wearing a Malibu promo shirt. Quite funny.

Then we went to pay our bill. We couldn't see the waitress who served us, so we took the bill and money to the bar. "Can we pay?" .. "NO!" we had to pay the waitress. We found another waitress... "NO!" ... wrong waitress, back to the bar. The bill was €4.50 so we figured that we'd just leave the fiver note on the bar and walk off. "NO! " They wouldn't let us go without giving us our change.

It seems that "NO!" is a standard response whilst they think of what the rest of the sentence should be. Hilarious...

We stayed in a local house, which is commonly done in these parts... Usually the family has a spare room that they rent out to travelers, but we felt a little uncomfortable in this house as there was no spare room.... the hosts gave us their beds and then proceeded to sleep on the kitchen floor. Oops.

And we didn't sleep all that well due to the road noise - mostly car horns. It seems that Montenegrin drivers think the horn is the best think since sliced bread and use it at any given opportunity.

Now we are relaxing in the coastal town of Budva, where we'll be for a couple of days before heading back to Dubrovnik.

Oh.... and the girls' fashions over here are crazy too. It seems that the general objective is to look as much like a stripper or prostitute at all times. Mums and little girls included.

Take care all,
Matt & Shailee.