The Newest Country in the World

Montenegro just last month declared independence from Serbia so I think it is the newest country in the world. We didn't spend as much time in Montenegro as we had planned but we have plans to return before the summer is over. We spent the first night in Budva right on the coast but we got there late and just grabbed the first room we could get. We thought it would cool off as the night progressed and figured the room would be fine even though it had no air conditioning. Big mistake!
We got up the next morning and walked about a block to a cafe but it was blistering hot so we decided to walk another couple of blocks to the beach and get a swimming suit for me and other beach stuff. There were dozens of vendors all over and we had no trouble finding what we needed. We bought beach mats, a hat, etc. But by the time we got all that we were dying of heatstroke so decided that the air conditioning in our in Peh-zhoe would be preferable to broiling on the beach. Mind you, it was only about 10:00 in the morning at this point and I think it was already close to 100 degrees F. We slogged our way back to our rooming house, threw our stuff in the car and took off driving up the coast toward Croatia.
Checking our map we found that we could take a short ferry ride across an inlet or drive all the way around. We decided to explore and drive the route around the inlet and boy, were we glad we did. It was so beautiful I was begging Tom to consider buying a house there. But it didn't have anything resembling decent beaches. People just threw their bodies on any old slab on concrete or pile of rocks they could make room on and called it good.
We stopped in Kotor and walked around but again, the heat got to us. We saw a sign for a restaurant that claimed it was air conditioned. That sounded good to us so we went inside and thought at first it seemed a little cooler. We were seated and within one minute we were dying. We asked about the air conditioning and the waiter said, "the front door is open", as if that was the only explanation needed. We left. Kotor really was beautiful and I would love to go back someday but I think I'll wait until maybe October!
Here are a couple of photos. The first one is just a shot of the countryside up in the mountains we had to drive through before arriving at the coast. The second one is in Kotor. There are lots of websites you could go to if you want to see better photos than mine of the area.