Into Europe's Newest Country

Leaving Sarajevo, we had mostly a travel day. We stopped for about an hour and a half in Mostar on the way back. I was so happy to be back haha. It's amazing how quickly you learn to love a place. We took a quick walk back down the “front line” in the daytime, then did a bit of wandering.

Then it was back onto the suffocatingly hot van... easily the worst part of the entire tour. Who uses a van that doesn't have air conditioning when it's over 30 degrees and you're basically in the bloody desert?! It was a long, long ride.

We eventually make it to Kotor in Montenegro. I knew very little about Montenegro to be honest. It's Europe's newest country... only separating from Serbia in 2006. My first impression of Kotor was... rich! Big yachts out in the harbour. Kind of Monaco-ish.

I was feeling extremely ill (possibly the Sarajevo Special) so I actually tucked into bed and skipped dinner.

After a quick morning walking tour of Kotor, we headed to Budva... beach and party capital of Montenegro and a bit fancier than some of the other Adriatic hotspots it seems. It was a very lowkey day... we (Sheryl, Regan, Kristy, Dave and I) grabbed some lunch and then hit the beach. Or rather the sea. It was so gorgeous... perfect turquoise, clear, incredibly warm... perfection. Except for the fish. I'm a little... paranoid about fish. But anyways. It was an enjoyable couple of hours in the water.

We headed back to Kotor and decided to hike the city walls. Or at least half way. It took major self-convincing for the girls to drag ourselves up haha. We were tired and mostly sick. One of the guys was actually struck down by the Sarajevo Special the previous night. But we made it... hot trek that it was. It actually wasn't that bad, and the view was pretty nice. We had a bit of fun trying to self-time five or six cameras to take a group photo. Eventually we got some passerbys to take them haha.

We straggled down to the apartments and discovered the water was out. :/ Yikes. Not good after a day at the beach and then a sweaty walk. It did start semi-working, at least enough for me to shower haha. We met up for dinner, which was again, fairly average. I had an awesome mojito though. At dinner Armel informed us that we'd have to be on the road at SIX the next morning, to better deal with the ever difficult Croatian border. At that the girls decided to call it an early night while the boys decided to head back to Budva to party it up.