Montenegro and Sea Day

 Today our port was Bar, Montenegro.  

This was a change in ports - initially we were suppose to go somewhere else and this was substituted. This port area was on the smaller side without much to see.  We didn’t book any excursions so we were left to explore the port area. 

We promenaded along the shore, looked at some vendors, and sat in a cafe watching all the locals out on the beach with their children playing. 

These folks greeted us. 

Below the castle is now an admin building

We also saw this interesting statue.  It is of an artist called Uris Tochkowitch.  He was a vagabond on and off through his life.  He went to art school, lived in Paris and is included amongst Picasso and Dali.  He often rejected the commercial aspect of his work.  He was born in Montenegro and died in Bar.

After Montenegro we had a sea day.  There was a lot of things going on and we participated in the lot - mostly trivia games.  We did the “behind the scenes” tour of the boat.  Shannon has done one before, but I hadn’t .  We were able to look and learn about the Kitchens, the provisioning, the gigantic freezers, the laundry, the engine room, and ended with a nice chunk of time on the bridge. 

I had found this video game while walking around the ship, but couldn’t figure out how to get it to play.  Finally Shannon helped figure it out and I got to play my favorite video game….GALAGA