May 23, 2023 - Perast, Montenegro

 Tonight is our second and final night in Perast, Montenegro on the Bay of Kotor.  It's a beautiful location and we have a nice little apartment with a view of the water.  The only challenge is that motor vehicles are not allowed in Perast so we had to park at a small parking area above our apartment and carry our bags down several levels of winding, stone, narrow steps most of which had not railings.  I'm not sure my knees will ever be the same especially after I carry them back up those same steps tomorrow.

Today, we took a short cab ride to the Old Town of Kotor.  People have been building forts here since the 500s.  Kotor has one of the best preserved medieval old towns in the Adriatic and is a double Unesco World Heritage Site.  Kotor has a large population of cats that have become a symbol of the city. The city has several cat stores and a cat museum, as well as the Cats' Square.

We had a very nice lunch in the Old Town and met a wonderful couple from one of the cruise ships in port.  Their names were Bill and Andrea, originally from the UK and now living in Australia.  We must have spoken with them for over one solid hour before they had to return to their ship to sail off to Sicily.

Tomorrow, we cross the border from Montenegro to Croatia for 3 nights in Dubrovnik.  

This is Sooz just after we parked the bike in Perast, looking down at the Bay of Kotor.  She is smiling because she knows her sore back will mean that I will carry our bags down the many stone steps to our apartment.

Looking out at the Bay of Kotor from the pedestrian-only streets of Perast.

Ice cream even makes Perast look better.

Various views of Kotor Bay from our apartment.

Various shots from the Old Town of Kotor including one of the famous Kotor Cats, a cruise ship in port, Susie at Lunch and a nice selection of GSs from an Italian motorcycle tour company.