CLICK. Church bells!
Flori was going to be late so we headed out on our own and found Tina and John.
Amphitheater in Durres.
Finally found a mountain goat. …..but it wasn’t up a mountain!
Here is skanderbeg again. He’s famous everywhere.
Another drive up the mountain for this view. I must admit it is beautiful.
I didn’t have to deal with many of these, but today I did. The pitcher was there to dip into the bucket of water to pour down the hole. Gross.
Well Tom had his spaghetti and meat sauce, I had French fries and an Albanian wine for dinner.
Very interesting room you can see one side was mirrored but the other side was clear glass and you looked right into the bathroom. It wasn’t bad if you had your own room — but if you were sharing it there was no privacy.
I guess this is a thing in the United states also. You can get a Coca-Cola with your personal name on it. Cool.
Flory was very proud of the bridge; and Tom was very proud to be pointing to the half marathon bridge walk he did in San Francisco shown on his T-shirt.
We were supposed to get a lunch lakeside and then take a boat ride on that lake but they closed for the season. So I guess Flori thought letting us walk on a beach was an equivalent — which we all agreed was not. I took my shoes off and almost died of pain on those giant pebbles.
I took this photo from above and then it turned out we drove all the way to the bottom and went to this beach so I got a close up of the building. It has been closed since COVID and is not able to be entered. We just looked at it.
click. sky-diver.
CLICK. more sky-divers. The clouds were just crazy that day.
Such cute bathroom signs.
This is Budva, Montenegro. The first 3 pictures were demonstrations of the fight for freedom of speech.
Yup ducks.
I had my laundry done for €10 — as much as could be squeezed into a washing machine and was surprised to find this is what was returned to me. Apparently they wash and dry but they don’t fold.
When Flori picked us up he mentioned he had been run into and the back window was smashed. Upon viewing the back bumper it did not appear to be damaged which leads me to think something just hit the window that smashed it. It happened after he left us yesterday. And all the shards of glass were left in the back. It turns out Flori has to pay for this out of his pocket which is a sad thing.
click.
We were so excited about coming to Montenegro because we had a walking tour with a guide. She was fabulous and it lasted an hour and a half and she was filled with lots of information. She was actually in a third story building that she pointed to when the earthquake happened when she was a young girl and she has never been able to go back to that building. It was her grandmother’s and her grandmottherr sold it for two smaller apartments outside the city for her two sons. We also went into a store that used all its funds to feed the local cats. I bought a deck of cards. This clock tower actually leans and the 4th generation clock workman still comes to work everyday.
There were 37 churches all at once one time a couple 100 years ago.
I like a juxtaposition of an old fortress wall and a flying helicopter.
Coca-Cola gets everywhere.
Here are all the cats I was talking about.
We had lunch behind this tree without Flori. Flori pulled up to drop us off for our walking tour and got $150.00 parking ticket. He tried to argue saying he always does this; but they told him the rules had changed and they wrote him up. Poor guy.
Note the new colors of Coca-Cola it’s black and brown instead of the red that I’m used to.
I’m always excited to see wedding pictures.
This was a German cruise ship and was the cause of the crowds we encountered.
More pictures of canals, rocks and castles.
To get here we parked up a hill and it was so steep getting to the water that Flori had a hold Tom’s hand all the way to the bottom. Then we walked forever and finally got to these boats where we got to the Church of Our Lady of rocks. I recognized I had been there before on my cruise to Greece.
It was in this room I realized I had already been there with Cornell and and Larry and Anne in 2019.
The legend was fishermen saw an icon out in the water and they decided to build a church. So every time they went out to go fishing they threw a rock in the water until there were so many rocks it became an island and then they built the church. I even saw women from the cruise ships carrying bags of rocks to the island. I have no idea what they did with them once they were on the little island.
By this time in the day I had had it with Flori and I am wondering if this was just seconds before I may have flipped him off. Of course I’m just kidding.
Found this when I had my headphones on and I was searching Facebook so I wouldn’t have to deal with florie’s driving — but I found it so apropos. I have my own adage which says you don’t have to get revenge the universe will take care of it for you.
HILARIOUS!!
