Wonderful country
My husband and I rested for two weeks in Montenegro, lived in Budva. This was our third trip (were before in 2014.2016). There has never been such a warm Adriatic Sea, we even started to worry about the flora and fauna, has global warming really reached here. We rested, as always, richly - we are not beachgoers, but we were happy to find time both in the early morning and in the late evening to swim for an hour and a half. The country remains as comfortable and hospitable as in our previous visits. I want to share not very pleasant changes. The fare went up: we traveled by bus to Ulcinj, Kotor and Tivat, and only spent 60 euros on travel for two. I very rarely heard the Serbian speech of the locals - at every step, in markets, in transport, the raised tone of tourists from Russia cut my ear, who for some reason do not want to raise the economy of "their" Crimea. I have nothing against this mass character, but the behavior of Russian citizens who are visiting a foreign country finished off even such a cosmopolitan and tolerant person like me: they proudly entered cafes, markets in bathing trunks, as in three-piece suits, aunts - in parero over swimsuits, and at the same time I heard how many indignations that in Montenegro every resident is simply obliged to know the international Russian language! To learn by yourself (so, just in case, out of respect for the country) at least two words: a greeting, or words of gratitude (in Serbian: healthy and praise, respectively) is a lot of backbreaking work, I understand. People behave as if the whole world owes them something! It’s good that we didn’t have much, only out of necessity, and then we weren’t in crowded places for long, so we didn’t get hung up on negative emotions. Fruits, vegetables and dry-cured meat have also become more expensive - this year, probably due to the large number of us, the prosciutto did not stand in time as it should, and they did not clean the thick layers of fat over the meat, as they always did, as well as heavily overdone. But sour milk remained the same tasty and high quality. . We saw deer, turtles and mushrooms in the mountains, these were new discoveries for us, because we saw mountain violets and crocuses blooming in September on previous trips. Montenegro is beautiful, the sea is clean, clear and warm (25-26 degrees), the locals are friendly and not fussy people, and therefore centenarians. And the city of Kotor and its fortress still impresses us more every visit than Dubrovnik! Montenegro becomes our home as much as Crimea used to be: every year you dream of a trip!