Goodbye Croatia! Hello Porto Montenegro in Tivat, Montenegro

The Croatian Flag...Going Away Nicely Frayed

 After a not so quick stop at Gruz to check out of Croatia, because they wouldn’t do it for us in Dubrovnik…who knows why, keeping everyone working I suppose…we left Croatia with mixed feelings and headed for Montenegro. We loved Croatia for what we experienced here, but have some misgivings about “having” to be here for the length of time we stayed. Anyway…happy to be moving on!


The Boardwalk to the Docks



WOW. WOW. WOW. Porto Montenegro is a development in Tivat apparently led by a Canadian, that will become the nicest marina in the Adriatic. Period. It’s a multi-year project that is just getting going but it is going to be amazing – 5 star all the way. We arrived, they drove me to customs in a Golf Cart – when I didn’t have enough cash they drove me to the bank. We cleared customs and then there were free burgers and beers at the end of the dock – right beside the two largest superyachts I have ever seen – ‘Queen K’ and ‘Sputnik’. The Queen K is a traditional superyacht just more so – 4 decks and probably 200+ feet long. Sputnik looks like a work boat – with cranes and places to store things (probably like submarines) all over it, except that it is done to Yacht quality. Quite impressive – probably 200+ feet as well.



The next morning we went for a workout - the Marina had a health club, a small 2-lane bowling alley, all sorts of services and just plain friendly people. Some things weren’t completed yet – the washrooms as an example, but as Ross said, in 5 years this will be the place to go in the Adriatic. It reminds me of Whistler – I think it’s a real-estate development wrapped in a ski-hill. Tivat was a Naval station that had a few hundred acres of waterfront. The Marina will be a way to draw people in to buy condos. A formula that works is you get the resort side right.

In the afternoon we decided to make a break for southern Montenegro. Miles we put on today are miles that we won’t need to put on in our overnight journey.

A Small Chapel In The Middle of Nowhere