Day 39 Tirana Albania to Kotor Montenegro

The bus to Kotor was leaving at 8am but luckily it was only a five minute walk from our accommodation. The bus backtracked via Shkoder where we had been yesterday, and collected an English couple we had met on the ferry a couple of days before. The border crossings were taken care of by the driver and the police coming onto the bus, it was very easy for us, they were only interested in the Albanians, questioning them on how much money they had. Our bus driver spent a lot of time on his mobile even though there was a sign on his window of a mobile with a red cross through it.

When we eventually reached Kotor it was an easy walk from the bus station through the arched gate into the walled old town, then up a few stone steps to our cute Airbnb apartment. The apartment was on two levels and very authentic with the old stone work right down to the musty smell, we are happy that we have a washing machine, which was an important filter for us.

Kotor is amazing, its all old stone, cobbled roads, walls, shops, accommodation and no motorised traffic inside the city walls. We turned a corner and found ourselves in a square with hordes of tour groups, and a cruise ship could be seen out the gate. Just as we were despairing at the crowds there was a mass exodus and by about 4pm there was only a sprinkling of people left. 

We found a bar on one of the many squares but once again experienced the total lack of interest in us or serving us that has dogged us throughout most of this trip, don't think we will ever complain about service in Melbourne again. We moved on pretty fast and purely by accident came across a tiny little hole in the wall, we were served cheap drinks by an old man on a cute street, this was more our style.