A day in Montenegro

Today set the record for earliest get-up. Alarm set for 6 and down for breakfast at 6-45. Still felt delicate but discovered a wonderful breakfast combo; boiled semolina in milk, with porridge. It was excellent. The reason for setting off at such a ridiculous time was to try get through Customs before the rush, as we headed for yet another new country, Montenegro. This was a coincidence as the news was full of Donald Trump elbowing Montenegro's prime minister out of the way at the G7 conference! Sure enough the border crossing was a bind and I guess this will become the norm once we leave the EU.
So here we have Croatia which is in the EU, but doesn't use the euro. Montenegro is not in the EU but does use the euro. Crazy! First stop was a little coastal village called Perast. There are no public loos there but there is a tiny little island about 300 metres off the coast which has a very small church, a gift shop and free toilets. So we paid 5 euros for a boat ride to the island so we could have a wee, then sailed back!
We then drove around the edge of the bay to a walled town at the foot of very steep, rocky cliffs, called Kotor. It was a nice place and we bought a decoration for the Christmas tree, as you do in mid summer. By the way, the moron with the bells keeps following us. He rang them in Dubrovnik yesterday morning and tried again at noon today in Kotor. But I don't care how loud his tune is, I'm not buying one of his ice creams. Then, to save endless miles driving round the bay we got a ferry across it. It's only a small drive on drive off ferry but there were 2 coaches and a few cars on it. It only takes 15 minutes but I still stood on deck like we used to when crossing the Channel all those years ago. So, 2 boat rides in one day; I must be on holiday!
Return border crossing was slightly less of a pain as we got to watch a sniffer dog checking out the cars and it barked like mad by an Italian car. Don't think they found anything as they let him go but, they were so excited about that they lost interest in the red tape of our passports and waved us on!