Our Lady of the Rocks looks absurdly out of place in Kotor Bay,Montenegro,where it sits atop shipwrecks and other discarded debris.
Being in a coach on the Kotor Serpentine adds to my sense of fear. I’m sitting up front and feel as if we’re about to hit the cliffside,or plummet into the void.
I wasn’t all that happy when I bit into a crouton and broke a tooth only hours into a European cruise.
If Norway and Venice had a lovechild,it would look like Kotor Bay – extravagantly beautiful;the water a joyous Mediterranean blue.
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It is not in Norway,nor Germany,nor Switzerland,nor Serbia,nor Disneyland. It is itself.
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