54 Days on the Moon

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La Terraza for dinner tonight. Their menu really only has minor changes throughout the cruise. As always an antipasti platter served first.


Italian wines are always offered and this was the red for the night.



Mrsdrron started with the carpaccio and I had their vegetable soup. Always a favourite.


For mains Mrsdrron had the pappardelle with duck ragu. and I had the chicken parmigano.



The chicken dish was no different from that served in most pubs in Australia.
For desserts Mrsdrron had coconut ice cream. I had a plate of Gorgonzola. Both of those had to be sourced downstairs but that was no problem. I really love Italian gorgonzola.

 

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Night lights of Bari.

 

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Thursday morning and we are steaming in to Kotor























The Wind surf follows us in.

 

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An MSC ship already at anchor.

 

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We had been here 6 months ago so decided togo ashore and just wander the old town. A good decision as we found many parts we hadn't been to before. First a tiny Noble Caledonia ship had pinched our place at the pier so it wasatender to shore.

 

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Lots of these animals.

 

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Leaving the old town.

 

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The ruins of a Monastery.


Went into a supermarket.

 

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Always like to wander a local supermarket. Fruit, veggies and meat looked pretty good.







Cheap alcohol.








This BBQ restaurant was recommended to us by @Flashback

 

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Then we visited the market.




Mrsdrron was now getting tired and went back to the ship. I wanted a local lunch so headed back into the old town. Now I had picked out a restaurant for further consideration but do think I could find it? Not a chance. Went into a church that we didn't see previousy.

 

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However I found a little restaurant in a back street which was a fair bit cheaper han those in the larger lanes and squares. Here is the menu. Not in order.

 

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I originally ordered fried sardines to start but they were unavailable so I settled for the marinated Anchovies.

They were absolutely delicious and cost 8 euros. In Dubrovnik the next day for the exact same size dish the cheapest price was 18.5 euros.
I then had the mussels. They weren't the greatest mussels as they were small but it was sold by weight and was 13 euros for 800 gms. Most of the other restaurants were the same price for 500 gms.





Ended up with 106 mussels. Also a basket of bread for 1 euro.


And a 250 ml bottle of the dearest Montenegran wine was 6 euros.


Service was excellent.

The view of the laneway.


And if you do want to find it if you come in the main gate walk across the Square and if you see this sign turn left. The lane does take a couple of turns.

 

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Now I did mention there are a lot of cats. Eating seafood naturally attracted them. In the pecking order this was the lowest.


Notice the cork. all 3 cats attracted had a lot of fun playing with it.
The number 2 cat tried a different tack. This was my seat.


And here it is playing.


But they both deferred to this cat.


However it was the smartest and quickly knew I wasn't a cat lover. The most adventurous turned out to be the white cat who stood on his hind legs with his paws on the table longingly looking at the fish. It was out of luck.

 

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After lunch another quick look at the markets.

Lots of dried mushrooms.








The apricots and loquats looked nice and I was tempted but thought better of it.





Then off to get the tender back to the ship.

 

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More of the new flower arrangements.

 

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Some more views from our balcony.