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Making it to Mostar
Kotor may well be one of the most beautiful towns we have yet visited on this trip but it isn’t all perfect. It’s really hard to leave, and I’m not referring here to the fact that you want to stay longer. I’m referring to the fact that Kotor, for all its beauty, puts the hiking well and truly into hitch-hiking. Read the rest of this entry »
Kotor
Montenegro has a fjord, steep mountains with their marbled rocks studded green with pine trees and bushes rising above the clear azure water. And at the end one of the bays of this fjord, where the land is steepest and easiest to defend, the Montenegrins built a small but heavily fortified walled town. Once they’d done this, they built a network of walls up the impossibly steep mountain behind it and then, to cap it all off, they constructed a fortress on the top of this with views that would give any estate agent a heart attack. They called it Kotor. Read the rest of this entry »
Into Montenegro…
As I said, we were put onto a little minibus in Tirana by a driver from Roger and Nikki’s school and this took us to the northern town of Shkoder which I’ve probably spelled wrong because it seems to be different on every map I look at. Anyway, we got there without incident and were determined to hitch from then on. We did, but it took us a while to figure out how… Read the rest of this entry »
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