“Montenegro and Still Searching for Castles”

• July 29, 2020
• By Daryl
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The morning has come, and it is time to roll, and time for a spin. Down  the road we go, Just around the bend. We look good, we’re feeling fine we both feel that warm fuzzy feeling, from doing what we do, together. We pass villages with history, hanging on the ridge. Passing vineyards and tall cypress trees. This is the “Tuscany of Montenegro.”

Now we were getting closer to the coast. The villages have vineyards behind precision stacked rock retaining walls. A lost art that holds up to the ticking clocks of the ages. The North sides are full of moss and small ferns.  A small detour takes us through a small community including a church and cemetery. Not big enough for a community gathering spot, other than than the church and a stone circle with a plastic pool. 

We saw a sign for another church and another village but the church was not exciting. There was a grand home of stone that must have been a wealthy lord’s villa. Another road we traveled through, had a tunnel of vegetation and trees enveloping our route. We were searching for a church from 1233. It was in the process of restoration but it looked as if it was never damaged from the war. 

We went to an area we had been before called “The Lady of the Rock,” on Bunny’s Blog post, she shared links to photos from our first visit). We went to a small castle, nearby. We are done with Monasteries and small castles. We were driving next to the Adriatic Sea with water so clear you can see the mermaids, if they were there. We stopped at an island that is a hotel. They stopped us from going in. The rooms start at 1500 Euro a night. 

Kotor was in our sites, we have been here before, but we only saw a portion of the fort as time, as were restrained with a tour schedule. Almost every hotel and apartment was closed down, with the pandemic causing little to no tourism. We found a hotel way out of town that was open.