Sailing in Montenegro

We are back from our recent sailing trip along the coast of Montenegro!

It was a fantastic trip and after flying to Dubrovnik, Croatia we made our way to Herceg Novi across the Montenegro border.

From there we travelled to Tivat in order to meet up with our crew (and our boat Rumba) and then set off stopping off at places like Risan, Rosa, Kotor, Bar, Bigova & Budva.

There was so much to see all along the spectacular coast and I was particularly impressed by the walled cities of Kotor and Budva.

In Kotor, cats are king!

Breakfast and lunch was generally had onboard with dinner on land. The seafood was great and we enjoyed tuna, seabass, seabream and delicious swordfish.

As I mentioned in a previous blog post Ciaran did a competent radio operator licence so he was on duty as we approached marinas where he notified our arrival.

One unique experience we had was that we saw submarine bunkers built by Yugoslavia in perhaps the 1950's. So hauntingly erie and very scary but also a lot like visiting a James Bond film set!

I'll probably post a few more pics and memories of this trip over the next few days but I will mention what is always a trip highlight - dolphins. And yes we did see some on what was our last day as we headed in to dock in Herceg Novi. So exciting!

All in all a great sailing trip and when we left the crew (who are staying on for another week and will possibly head to Albania) we headed back to Croatia stopping off in Cavtat before flying back to Dublin from Dubrovnik.