our bus that would take us to the tour hotel, the Lacroma. While we were doing this Gord picked up a car and then later picked us up for our road trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro. Gord figured this would give us all a few more stamps for our passports. Leaving Croatia at the border was easy but we just about blew through the border into Bosnia-Herzegovina. We were just about past went we heard this loud "Hey" as we kind of forgot about checking into the new country and our lane had no barrier down. The guy wasn't impressed and after many apologies, like a true Canadian, we were on our way. Our only stop in Bosnia-Herzegovina was Trebinje, a beat up city a lot of the old communist era still showing. It was really raining so not a lot of pics. We walked through the local market with way more sellers than buyers. There was lots of homemade cheeses as well as homemade bottled drinks. Just outside the market near a pub they were selling what I assumed to be black market cigarettes.
We visited an ethnographic museum a got a personalized tour because there were no guide books in English. Basic life in Bosnia-Herzegovina and wartimes were the main emphasis. There is a lot of poverty along with a tough life. Our guide was leaving soon to take up residence in Barcelona.
From there we drove into Montenegro where the poverty and socialist times were still evident but less so. We stopped at a quaint roadside restaurant where Mary had a mystery meal. She pointed to something on the menu to ask what it was and the little waiter took that to be her order and left. He was an interesting waiter speaking lots of German with friendly hands for the guys. Mary's meal turned out well.
On we went to Kotor with a quick stop for bijela cava. Kotor is a beautiful city with lots of cats to keep the vermin population under control. The cats even have their own square in the old town. And of course the city has a wall....with lots of stairs.....we almost got to the top. We also met up with 2 couples that were on our cruise. We had an interesting trip back to Dubrovnik, traveling along a very narrow road in the dark to get to a ferry. Good thing Gord was driving!
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Location:Jurja Dalmatinca,Konavle,Croatia
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