and there it was - some real vacation for us. we slept till noon and spent the rest od the day on the beach outside of Budva. in the evening Vuk went to see a football match with his friends and Anna, Ivana and I had a little of a girls’ night out. we went to some fancy bar and had Cosmopolitans and other crazy expensive girlish drinks.

after that we all met in Hacjenda Club. there was a Cuban music concert that night. we started with a few shots of rakija and the next thing I remember was dancing salsa with a black man. I must admit that guy was a great dancer, so I didn’t mind he was twice my age and I didn’t even know his name.

on the next day we overslept. we were supposed to go to Kotor in the morning, ‘cos Vuk had something to be done there, and then furter in the direction of Podgorica. but it was noon when we woke up and so we started our journey around 2 pm. after visiting Kotor, Vuk and Ivana took us on the road in the clouds. it was the old route from Kotor to Cetinje and then Podgorica, so narrow that it was sometimes impossible for two cars to pass. but the view was worth all the adrenalin.

it was like seeing the whole Montenegro from the top of the world. I was running around with my camera taking pictures of everything I saw. but it was getting darker and darker, so eventually we had to move forth. we stopped once again on the way to have a delicious sandwich with kajmak and some Montenegrian ham. we alsko had a bottle of home-made wine. we reached Cetinje in complete darkness.

to be true, it didn’t really matter, ‘cos there was not much to see in the former capital of Montenegro. Anna and I were doing a bit of sightseeing, during which I fell down the big unprotected hole in the pavement and we really weren’t stunned by the views anyway…

so after half of an hour in Cetinje we set up for Podgorica. we didn’t have a slightest idea of where were we going to sleep that night, but Vuk and Ivana helped us and one of their friends agreed to host us for one night. she had a beautiful black cat and we got an enormous and very comfortable bed. I slept like a baby.

sleeping in the shop has one real disadvantage - you don’t have any shower included. but fortunately Dubravko’s shop was placed close to the beach and he told us there are some showers near by. as I discovered later - none of them was working. anyway, there was still some water in the sea, and so my hair were salty for the next week… but who cares.

Anna adopt two cactuses and we spent some time having fun in the purest water of Adriatic sea, but we eventually had to get back to Magistrala and continue our journey. when we got to the centre, we had no more Croatian money (kn). but the bus driver was so nice to take us to Magistrala for free. at 1 pm we were sitting on the wrong side of the road naming Anna’s cactuses (Wilhelm and Enrique) in the burning sun.

after changing sides and an hour of waiting a young guy in a nice car stopped. he told us in the beginning that he was only going to the Dubrovnik’s airport, but he actually took us straight to the Montenegrian border. and then we had to walk for 2 km to reach the second border station… we were going down, but anyway I remember to be damn tired. I thought taking a guitar to be the worst idea ever.

fortunately, on the other side of the border we met a couple from Warsaw. they took us all the way to Kotor, following the beautiful road around the Kotor’s Bay. in Kotor we made some local discoveries. first of all, never order the Serbian salad, ‘cos it’s way too spicy. second of all, hallelujah! the cigarettes cost almost nothing. and third of all, everything else costs a lot, ‘cos they’re using euro as a local currency.

around 9 pm we catched a car going straight to Budva, where our host Vuk was supposed to wait for us. in the car there travelled a man with his daughter. she was dressed in her pijamas and her father told us that she demanded to sleep in Budva that night, so he was taking her to one of their two houses. soon the little girl fell asleep on Anna and she was really disappointed when her pillow disappeared.

Vuk met us on a parking and took us to his house, where we also met his girlfriend Ivana. the idea for the evening was to buy some rakija and get wasted. in result, we spent almost two hours looking for a decent rakija, then we drank two glasses and fell asleep on a very stangely profiled sofa.