Day 3: Kotor in the rain

We awoke this morning to be met with the spectacular views of the Montenegran fjord in which the medieval town of "Kotor" is situated. No I didn't realise there were fjords anywhere other than Norway either, but one learns new stuff all the time when your traveling! We stood on our balcony in our dressing gowns enjoying the view and supping our mugs of tea - a grand start to the day.

 

This is the great thing about cruising we've decided, you visit interesting places, go to bed, and you're at another interesting place in the morning!

To get to the town of Kotor we had to travel by "tender", basically it's what they call the lifeboats when they're not being used in emergencies. These boats shuttle to and fro all day taking eager tourists ashore, if they travel in pairs there is one tender in front and a tender behind...

We arrived and began exploring, there is an "old town" area with lots of narrow streets, cobbled squares and plenty of atmosphere, it was lovely, only spoilt by the fact that it began to pour down, and no one was prepared for it - the promised weather had been "hot and sunny". We sheltered in a cafe and drank several gorgeous strong coffees. (At this point I want to experiment with my first video link, http://youtu.be/qi1ctYmtJfY - "click" for evidence).

When the rain eased a bit we continued to explore, but soon it began raining heavily again and we once more sort refuge in a cafe. This time it was beer o'clock and time for lunch!

Pizza and salad, and a cool lager.

 

Finally admitting defeat with the elements we returned to the ship, the visit had been brief but we were both definitely impressed with what we saw. The area's scenery is fantastic, and as the ship left for the open sea once more - in beautiful warm weather, we toasted the views from our balcony once again. This time with the complimentary Champagne.

An overnight sail south will find us at Corfu in the morning, it's a hard life but I suppose someone has to do it.