Sleep was a little rough as the street was really noisy and I swear I heard a dog getting strangled to death last night? Worse, our room was off the stairs so people walking up and down the stairs were noisy, and violating when 1 kid tried to open our door. Plus there was a balcony outside and someone leaned over it to look inside our room - wtf!??
Anyway we made brekky, cleaned up then checked out. Our bus wasn't until 2.30pm so we slowly walked over to the Old Town area and visited the museum (boring because they had no info boards about any of the artefacts!), had a coffee and walked back down to the promenade for a choco crepe, sandwich and some milkshakes. The owners of the hotel kindly drove us to the bus terminal and turns out Montenegro buses are way more organised than those in Turkey or Albania. There was a ticket office plus a TV screen with all the destinations, bus companies and times of departure. Not used to such clearly laid out information re travel. We were lucky and grabbed an earlier bus so arrived in Budva around 3.30pm. Funny to think we went across the entire country in 2 hours.
We hadn't booked anywhere to stay so it was a bit of effort to find a place. But after an unsuccessful attempt to find one place (where we had to walk through a rather shifty looking courtyard with all this graffiti) we walked to another place and the neighbours helped us contact the owner, so we got a nice room in the end.
With at least 4 more hours of sunlight we walked over to the harbour and strolled along the promenade all the way to the Budva Old Town. There were lots of cute little alleyways and a stunning view from the citadel, but obviously a tourist area so all the shops, bars and restaurants were quite exxy, selling handbags, diamonds and clothes (interesting that they all target women lol).
We grabbed some dinner (gulash and spag bol) before heading to the supermarket and back home. Now chilling after a long day.
So far the impression of Montenegro is that it's very built up, not many unspoiled areas. Ulcinq wasn't really a city but then not a seaside retreat either because all the streets felt really cramped with buildings and tourists. Budva is not much different, in fact it's bigger so more buildings and many many tourists all driving crazy.
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