2025 Feb 25-26: Kotor

Took a bus to Kotor, at the end of the bay. It’s a UNESCO world heritage site with a rich history, what is here today seemingly most influenced by the Venetians in the 15th-18th century.

There’s a walled ‘old town’, wedged between the bay and a steep mountain. Up the mountain is a fortress.

We arrived in the AM, poked around ‘til 1 when we were able to check into our hotel: the Kotor Nest (excellent, highly recommended):

Climbed to the fort, about 1000 ft just about straight up, in a gathering storm:

Made it down, poked around in the dark after a good dinner at Resto Bar Teraca:

Next AM the storm had fully arrived, it rained hard pretty much all day. Narrow streets like inches-deep rivers. Spent most of the day in this patisserie. They have apartments upstairs, called ‘apartments wine house old town’ https://wine-house.me.

The morning shift:

An hour in St Tryphon Cathedral:

…which houses a museum of sorts upstairs:

A walk along the harbor:

And back into the old town, to the maritime museum, housed in a Venetian villa:

The afternoon shift at the patisserie:

Time to retrieve the backpack from the Kotor Nest and head for dinner and the bus back to Herceg Novi. Had the most elegant dinner of the trip at Galion, a restaurant with glass walls built out over the water at the end of the harbor. Very good and surprisingly inexpensive; highly recommended: