Kotor, Monte Negro Part II

The blog on Kotor was getting too long so I decided to break it into two parts. The photo below is of an old gate in a wall.

The next photo is a sort of National Geographic moment. The red T-shirt kind of pops out.

The photo below is of a door that I quite liked. I don't know what it leads to.

The next photo is of a small square. Note the green shutters and the lady in a red top with her dog.

The three photos below show the defensive sea wall and some of the wall going up the mountain to protect the town from raiders coming over the mountain and down to the town.

The next photo looks up the mountain from the seawall. You can see some of the wall going up the mountain, fortifications and a church.

Above is a flower growing out of a crack. I thought at first that it was artificial , but on closer examination I think it is a real flower. Below is another great door.

The two photos below show two different sets of stairs on narrow streets leading to two different businesses.

The corner shown below is interesting with the rounded building on one side and the square on the other, with green shutters, of course.

I think this church is the Cathedral of St. Tryphon.

This dog seems to be enjoying himself on the veranda. Why not?

I just about fell down laughing when I came to this down a narrow side street. I presume that every international society of neurologists and/or  neurosurgeons must hold their meetings at the Hotel Hippocampus. The perfect place for such meetings.

Unfortunately its time to say farewell to Kotor. The photo below shows the town of Kotor and the mountain behind from the ship.

This next photo is of a village partway down the inlet towards the Adriatic.

The island on the left in the photo below is a man-made island. Rocks, old ships, etc. were put there to create the island and then a church built on it. The church is Our Lady of the Rocks.

The sun sets as we approach the Adriatic Sea. Farewell to Kotor--a great experience.

Kotor, Monte Negro

Monte Negro is a small country on the east side of the Adriatic Sea. It is bordered by Croatia, Albania,Bosnia, Herzogovina, Kosovo and Serbia. Kotor is a small port city, population about 14,000, located at the foot of the mountains at the end of a long inlet. It took at least an hour to get by ship from the mouth of the inlet on the Adriatic to Kotor. The inlet looks very much like a fjord, but according to the geologists it is not a fjord but a flooded river valley. Oh, well...it looks like a fjord, it quacks like a fjord...

 In the photo above we are just entering the inlet from the Adriatic. The photo below shows a commercial mussel farm up the inlet a little ways.

The photo below shows a church halfway up the mountain.

Below is a village and two churches.

 
Kotor owed allegiance to, and received protection from, Venice from 1420 to 1797. The sea wall above and the city wall shown below are both Venetian. Note the Lion of Venice. For much of this time period the Adriatic Sea was a Venetian lake.

This deep green color shown on the shutters  in the two photos below is typical of Kotor.

Kotor is basically a medieval town, with very narrow streets and some small squares. A typical street is shown above.

The photo above shows a typical street lamp, the ubiquitous red tile roofs and the domes of a church with the rugged mountains rising in the back ground. Because of the abrupt rise of the mountains from the sea there is very little room for a town.

Above are a gate and a door. I believe the door is a side door to a church. I don't know where the gate leads.

I believe this is the Cathedral of St. Tryphon, shown from a side street.

This dog was minding its own business on a small square when a tourist took its photo. A gypsy woman immediately claimed the dog was hers and demanded money for its photo. Of course the dog was not hers and she was quickly sent packing. We had several encounters with gypsies, but only the one in Kotor.

Small square. I believe the church is Serbian Orthodox, but I am not sure.

Small dress shop off a square.

 I like the above building. I think it has a lot of character. Note the dark green shutters.

I think this is a tower on a church. Note the flower growing out of a crack and the rugged mountains behind.

This is a water fountain on one of the squares--apparently no longer used.

Above-- note the flowers growing out of the cracks in the wall.

A typical narrow medieval street. Note the green shutters and the wash hanging from the third story windows.

Mykonos

Mykonos is one of the Cyclades Islands of Greece in the south Aegean Sea. It is a small island, only 33 square miles. The main town is also called Mykonos; a main, perhaps the main industry now is tourism. Mykonos is noted for its nightlife. The town is small with narrow streets, mainly pedestrian. It is a very colorful place with a lot of blue and white. The photo below is of some waterfront buildings.

Below are two photos of a small church.

Window with lace curtains and beautiful blue shutters.

Doorway, probably to a house.

Small church in background in above photo. Below is a building with another prominent color, red. Also note the bougainvillea.

The two photos below show white with blue trim on a wide spot in a street.

Below is another small church.

 There is a knit goods shop in the building shown below.

 Typical narrow street shown below.

 Another small church.

The three photos below show the beautiful white with blue trim seen so frequently.

I really like the door shown in the photo below. I don't know what sort of building it leads into, perhaps a church.

More bougainvillea on a building that houses a bar.

Below is another small church.

The last two photos are of some of the iconic windmills of Mykonos. The ones shown here are located on the edge of the harbor. There are some 16 windmills remaining on Mykonos. They were built by the Venetians in the 16th century and used to mill wheat. They ceased being used in the middle of the 19th century.