Budva Montenegro

After another frustrating week of very little electricity I'm going to attempt to update the blog. Here are a couple of photographs of Budva where we stayed for a week earlier in the month. The first photo was taken from the top of the wall surrounding Old Town Budva and looks toward the mountains that we had to travel over to get to the coast. The other photo was taken of a garden inside Old Town. There are not only lots of little shops, coffee houses, bakeries, and restaurants inside Old Town, but a few people actually live there, too. This garden amazed me. It had figs, grapes, lemons, pomegranetes and avocados growing in it. You just about can't ask for much more, can you? Oh, it had flowers, too.
I would strongly urge anyone looking for a new place to explore to tour the Dalmatian Coast from Montenegro up through Croatia. The people here are very friendly and welcoming. The accomodations are comfortable and more than reasonably priced. Food is excellent and the scenery is breathtaking. If you've never traveled to the Balkans, though, I would advise you to just keep an open mind and don't expect to find the full blown "tourist" experience you find in most of the famous European destinations. This area is very laid back in most respects, although in some places such as Budva, you do get a very lively beach scene complete with lots of discos right on the beach, amusement park rides, and they even have an internet cafe in a big tent. The internet cafe was always completely packed and I could never get in while I was there. That was okay, though...there was too much other stuff to see and do.