"I'm loving Hollywood!"

We took a two hour bus to Kotor, Montenegro, which was an amazingly beautiful city with a Lord of the Rings-esque fortress on the top of a mountain. You had to climb stairs for a half hour to get to the top, and seeing how it was 106 degrees outside, we opted out. The downside of Kotor was that the infrastructure of this newly independent, formerly communist nation is lacking. The city, while staggeringly beautiful, smelled pretty bad and the water looked kinda gross. The food and beer was delicious and cheap, and we got a killer room for very, very cheap. The hosts didn't speak a word of English, except for saying "Mr. Bush" with a big thumbs down. Haha. Smart folks.

Here is the view from our room:



Our house from the front. The open window was our room.



Here is the Stari Grad at night. This is the most impressive fortress we've seen yet, and we've seen dozens.



We decided to only stay one night in search of greener pastures. Here are some highlights though:

We went to a restaurant where nobody spoke English, and there was no pictures or English words on the menu. Amazingly, this is the first time we've run into this. The server basically knew how to say "hamburger" and pointed at a word in the menu. Needless to say, we had two of those.

Our server at dinner asked us if we were Australian. We said American, and his face lit up. He said "I'm loving Hollywood. Sharon Stone, Tom Cruise, Micheal Douglas. Very good!" Haha...awesome.

Oh...and our little neighbor here...total dude:






Next stop, a short trip down the road to Budva, Montenegro.