3 October Kotor Bay – Budva – Bar – Ulcinj

After goodbyes at the hostel, I climb the first hill of today and come to the main coastal road again. I fear the traffic, but today there is much less and certainly a lot fewer trucks. I pass some places, like Sveti Stevan, a pure Russian enclave I have been told.

I stop for some bicyclist’ food, dried mixed fruits and peanuts in an old Monastery. It’s Orthodox and 30 priests live here. It is beautiful, dates back to early 1300 and breaths solemnity. Listen to a prayer (link) to get an idea. The sounds in the background are from workmen repairing some of the brickwork.

Then further to Bar, where I lunch big and receive some tips where to go in Albania. An English lady, enjoying her pizza next to my table, tells me she has stayed at Mario Mallo in Koman. She calls it: “a beautiful end of the world”.

I talk myself on the bike again and head for Vladimir and Shkoder (Albania). But I make a mistake and end up on the road to Ulzinj. After all not so bad, because it would have been very late when I would have arrived in Shkoder. So after informing at the Touristic Info in Ulcinj, totally disinterested, I end up in a far too expensive hotel, ran by the all deciding typical arse licking, fat and sweating hotel manager. Of course he wears the very appropriate outfit, a cheap but shining suit with a non-fitting tie. Maybe he was once sacked by John Cleese and decided to start his own hotel. I am too tired to look for something else.

Anyway the bed is good and the hot shower – from which the two doors drop out - helps for my sore legs.