Tom and Noel Cruise Aboard The New Seven Seas Explorer: Kotor, Montenegro April 16, 2017

It was a two hour sail into Kotor from the Adriatic. They have a name for it, but it is similar to a fjord. The scenery was quite striking with mountains down to the water and quant houses along the way. Our tour began with a bus ride over the mountains and through a long tunnel to the city of Budva. This city dates to medieval times and has high stone walls right to the sea. We were told that it is very busy as a summer resort beginning this month and lasting until November. Many Russians have homes here that they only visit for a week or two every year. We saw many unfinished buildings that appeared to be abandoned. The unemployment rate here is 40% and it shows. We had a walk through the old city and visited the outside of a few churches then we had free time before taking the bus back over the mountain to Kotor. We were then supposed to take walking tour of the old city of Kotor but it started to rain so we just left the tour and went back on the ship. It was a good decision as there was a lot of thunder and lightning along with some heavy rain.
Being Easter Sunday the ship was decorated with large displays made of chocolate. They were in front of every restaurant along with a large one in the atrium. The whole ship smelled like chocolate!