Montenegro

Today we headed out on another excursion. (After this our days become far less active!) this time we traveled 2-1/2 hours south to Kotor in Montenegro.

We passed on the standard/offered boat ride out to visit the little church Our Lady of the Rocks but here is a picture of her sitting in Kotor Bay. Pretty rock  pretty rock.

Unfortunately, even little Kotor is overrun by cruise ship day trippers these days. Crowds were plentiful even at 9:30am. But we toured around with a guide. Learned about the history, the Italian influence, and the Church of Our Lady of Health which is perched on the hillside above town.  The menfolk of the town were sailors and they built the church to honor the fact that they thought divine intervention saved them at sea. Our female guide told us that that the women of the town likewise look to that church to bring them good health. They walk up the hill every Sunday to visit the church…which makes them healthier…so a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Luckily we decided to skip lunch in the area and start back to Dubrovnik. When we approached the border, we stopped with about 15 cars ahead of us to find that the computer system was down. It came back up about thirty minutes later, but it still took us another thirty minutes to get through. Our guide heard later that the system went down again after we passed. 

So lunch in a little village in the valley instead. Then back here to rest up and to head out for a lovely dinner at Art Restaurant Renaissance on a little side street with lots of twinkly lights, great food, and a very pregnant woman singing Tracy Chapman songs and sipping red wine!

Then good night Dubrovnik.