Day 71 The Season

Thursday 31/05/2018 Apartment Miles UTJEHA - BUSAT, Utjeha, 85000, Montenegro

A very slow day as we had to find out accomodation for mid Croatia, and this process with both of us looking took all day literally until 3pm... the process of looking for cheap accommodation with all the mod cons we need isn’t easy you would think it is but it’s pure pain....

Maybe we are too fussy, or want too much fir our budget price, we do manage to find what we want but it’s a bit like a needle in a haystack....

Views, aircon, stove with oven if possible, private shower, free wifi, free parking, microwave if possible, fridge, cook top.... and a double bed.... sounds simple but for around $50 a night that’s a challenge.... they are there but so many bits nit quite there.... I use a microwave for breaky and heating left overs, stove for cooking oven fir baking when you have longer than a few days and this is for 2 weeks.... we wanted a pool and there were some but they didn’t have other stuff... views with it being 2 weeks locked up in a unit without views might get us stir crazy... anyway after much deliberation we found one only missing thing the microwave.... can’t have it all... and it was $55.70 a night so just over budget and has sea views very close to the ocean apparently... what they show in the pics isn’t always what you assume it’s going to be.... we have this process to go through for each lot of bookings not as fussy when only for a few days.... and not all websites offer everything in their field search, we have discovered booking.com has the best search engine for finding what we want.. it has an easy way to book and prices are pretty good when you compare and I do....

So tripping it’s tired up with being organised... and as we are chopping and changing our plans as we go pre booking would have locked us in and have no freedom to change our minds...

So after the exhausting marathon effort to find this one we headed to the beach or pebble and rock pools, by the ocean ha ha... beach doesn’t exist here... what we define as beach... the restaurant that opened yesterday was open again so we had a drink and watched the local you men playing by the ocean fir a bit, then headed around to the seals on rocks.... Karen you know what I mean.... to have our swim...

When we did our 2000 European trip our tour guide Voiko told us as we drive past heaps of tourists sunbaking on all the rocks, they were the seals on rocks, cracked us up at the time he had such a child like way of saying things to a big group of mainly Aussies... we all got his funny sense of humour sadly the Americans etc never did... they found him hard to cope with we all loved him he had such a great way of communicating only an Aussie and NZ gets... anyway since then when ever we see people sunbaking on pebble beaches or rocks we refer to the as seals... and funny enough these 2 older ladies did look a bit like plump seals on rocks, I had a Kauai to myself as I looked at them.... but then had to remind myself that was me not that long ago.... reality check hey! Still funny!

So in went John it was very cool for me but did go in only to the waist... we noticed after getting out, we weren’t all sticky like you get at home after a swim in the ocean... you wouldn’t think there would be different salt strengths in ocean water, but we definitely noticed the difference...

Well that was that so off we headed home... up the rough, road that is slowing breaking down you can see the reo coming through...

Past all the houses and units for sale or not finished, unkept unused land, and over grown yards that we gather might be tidied up when they open up for the season as everyone talks about. Even when we asked about the Pizzas on the menu at the seaside restaurant, the little guy there told us oh no only in the season... that we find it doesn’t start until after the 15th June... hence why we were finding booking a unit in Croatia so difficult it was due to the “Season” plus prices skyrocket as well.... triple or more in Season....nothing we can do for from now on until late September when we leave to go to Thailand will be the Season all over Europe, we have done well to dodge it thus far...

Back to a slow arvo made Risotto today yes I can finally do some cooking... we had a Knock on our door about 9pm again Mila the owner all worried, last night he collected our passports they have to register us as tourist to the police and if they don’t we get into trouble but they get into bigger trouble... because we crossed the border in the 27th he wasn’t aware we had stayed 2 days at Pljevlja on the way... he was worried we wanted him to say we had come there from the 27th and didn’t want to risk his license by lying ... like last night he had the Mum from the unit next door come with him as she speaks English he doesn’t she also speaks I think they say Russian is his language we think can’t quite work that one out... anyway he had himself really worked up about it all... when we got it through to him we stayed near the border when we arrived in Montenegro he was a little calmer, but apparently we must have had to get a certificate from the last place to confirm we had stayed there... the young guy there never have us one so what could we do... he left after we explained it all, but we could see he still felt uneasy... it must be a real concern for them... the young guy the other night when we arrived in Pljevlja was all worked up about getting our passport info in His register ASAP.

Every country is so different ...... I remember the first time we went to Thailand they wanted our passports I had a real Mickey fit and wouldn’t let them have it thinking they would take it from us... some do and lock it I. The thief safes... most these days just photocopy it... a real test of trust I can tell you in this day and age when so much identity theft, but it is also very much what has to be done fir them to do what the law expects if them... also because of the refugee issues they are more vigilant. The world we live in now....

Hope he doesn’t have any issues because we didn’t have anything to prove from the other place....Read more