The Bay of Kotor is spectacular, but we did not spend more than a night there. We caught a local bus that took us to our Airbnb, very nice, where we stayed the evening so that the next morning we could catch a bus across the border into Albania and its capital city, Tirana. It was way out of the way but the only part that would get us to Corfu Greece and farther south. These are the perils of traveling never by jet.

We arrived in Herceg Novi by bus after a long haul from Dubrovnik involving two border crossings. It was pouring rain and we had very little idea where our hotel was. An angel appeared, a young Montenegrin woman who spoke perfect English and had spent time in the United States helped us find a cab and locate the hotel that we had booked, which was nearby but very difficult to get to. At last we did (and it was quite nice — The Stanica Hotel) and nearby found an excellent seafood restaurant and then, returning in the rain, put ourselves to sleep.