Here are pictures from various trips I have taken to faraway (and not-so-faraway) places.

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A map of the area (a UNESCO World Heritage Site; we lost count of how many of those we visited (and lived in!) on this sabbatical year).

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A quick stop in Morinj.

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Kat looks across the bay.

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The artificial island (left) we would be visiting later, and the natural island (right) owned by the Catholic Church and closed to visitors.

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Some nice flowers during our stop.

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Among the bees, this quite large black insect also enjoyed the flowers. Some kind of beetle, perhaps?

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We drove around the bay to Perast, where we took this tiny boat to the "Our Lady of the Rock" artificial island. The island was constructed over the course of a century after fishermen found a painting of the Virgin Mary on a tiny outcropping of rock in 20–30 metres of water. After constructing an island for a century by dumping more rocks there (as well as captured ships laden with rocks), they spent another century constructing the church on the island.

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Said church.

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The nearby (natural) island of St. George.

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The island is itself shaped like a boat.

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More around the bay to Kotor. The old city of Kotor is nestled between water and a very large mountain. It is surrounded by a large wall that goes a substantial way up the mountain.

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Kotor kitty ("mačka", pronounced "muchka")

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Just outside the walls

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You can see the walls in the foreground, of course, but also going up the mountain.

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You can walk these walls as well, but it's something like 1300 steps, so it's far more exerting than the Dubrovnik walls.

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Our final stop in Montenegro was Budva. Lots of beaches here.

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A zoom out on that same spot, showing the Adriatic.

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Ruins (of a church?) in Budva

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Kat and some pretty big bells at the ruin site

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OK, now Kat stands with a big bell!

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The ramp-shaped Sveti Nikola island near Budva.

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The old city of Budva, as seen from the nearby beaches.

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Some people preferred the rocks to the beaches.

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A bunch of little fish near the shore in Budva

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Two beaches with a cave between them

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Kat and Tom, on the ferry across the bay on our way back to Croatia.

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