Brussels Stories

As promised, our holiday photos of Herceg Novi and surrounding area. The first half of the holiday were were joined by friends from Belgrade, Darko, Jelena and their baby Jana. The second week in was just the two of us. First here are a couple pictures fom Herceg Novi:







From the town to the water......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........from the water to the town.


We arrived on the same day as a regatta.








Me and our friends Darko, Jelena and the back of baby Jana's head.








Racing another tourist boat back to Herceg Novi at the end of the day.







We made a few day trips, including Budva:

The old town in the background on the right, a nice swimming beach is on the left.


A court yard in the old town. This square happened to have an Irish pub too. One thing you can count on any where you go (as far as we can tell) the Irish pub is the only thing you can count on.






An island in the bay.








Reading chair with a heck of a view, and











Old lady bathing suits, not on old ladies.









Here we are travelling to the bay that hosts Zanjice beach*, Fortress Arza**, and Blue Caves***. This required a 35 minute boat trip out of the mouth of the bay into the open Adriatic. A second short boat trip was required to get to the blue caves.






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We were driven in, then we jumped over board for a swim.







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Marching to Fortress Arza for inspection.










Kotor, and Kotor Bay:










The fort from the town (far left), and some old steppe pasture land built by the Romans (left).





















A couple pictures of the fort (above), starting from the moat at the bottom going to the flag at the top. The climb up and back took a couple hours at a Leisurely pace. There were several monuments to view on the way up. This fort has been in almost continual use since its construction began many hundreds of years ago. The Montenegran flag marks the top.

and Dubrovnic, Croatia:
















The view of the old town from the non-tourist part of the old town.











The buildings were very nice and there was some very interesting asrcitecture. But in the tourist part of the old town, the building s were identical and lined up in well planned rows. It was like a 1400's suburbia.