Saturday 5th September - Shopping Kotor is full of shops and little restaurants for a coffee, beer and lunch mostly eaten at tables outside in the street or courtyard. We saw lovely "Faberge" eggs that are copies and not the real thing and some are made from duck or goose eggs. They were very intricate and so lovely and locally made. There were lots of galleries and some lovely art. Wood carvings, woollen garments, lace embroidery, hand painted pottery. Y...

Saturday 5th September - Kotor We went and had breakfast and then prepared to go ashore. Problem 1 was that Jane's card wouldn't work in her door and that's the third time. Problem 2 is that our safe wouldn't open and we had to get the purser to come and open it so that we could get my wallet out. We made our way down to the 1st deck to get a launch ashore. There was a heck of a queue and we had to wait for ages for a space on the launch. We had a 5 minut...

Saturday 5th September - Early Rise We got up this morning at 6.00am to watch the ship come into Kotor Harbour. Kotor is in Montenegro and is at the end of a type of fjord although it's not a fjord as they are carved out by glacial movement and the Bay of Kotor is the result of an old river running from the interior to the Adriatic Sea. The mountains rise up from the sea on both sides of a long thin bay that leads to the walled town of Kotor. It was very ...

Friday 4th September - Lunch Back at the dock we moved from the boat to a cafe for a sandwich and a salad and of course a beer. Under the umbrellas it wasn't too bad but we had to use the bathroom inside the cafe and out the back and the heat were awful. Soon we were sticky messes with sweat running down our arms. We walked back up passed various churches, a Franciscan Monastery and Museum and although they were lovely we were too hot to go inside. The si...

Friday 4th September - Streets of Dubrovnik Right at the bottom of the wall steps there is the tall dome of Onofrios Fountain that people were filling water bottles at the numerous spouts. The water flows into the city via an aqueduct from the Dubrovnik River 12kms away. The Fountain was completed in 1444 and was destroyed by an earthquake in 1667. The fountain was also used extensively during the siege in 1991-92 when the city was in lockdown. We walked ...