The southernmost town in Montenegro, majority Albanian speaking, with an old town on a rock above the sea that spent the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a corsair port. Below it the coast turns to sand: Velika Plaza runs for roughly 8 miles, and the Bojana river islands sit at the border with Albania. The season is longer here than anywhere further north and the water is warmer. It is about 45 minutes from Bar and a different country in feel from the bay.
Sandy beach 20km south of Budva in the town of Ulcinj, Montenegro's southernmost coastal settlement. Long, gently sloping shore backed by old town and Mediterranean scrub.
Worth an hour if you are interested in textiles and Ottoman-era crafts; the bazaar is compact and central.
Your best memories, journaled automatically, from the photos already on your phone. The app reads your photo library, finds the international trips you have taken, identifies the venues, writes the prose, and lays it out like a magazine spread. The first time you open it, the last several years of your travel are already there. Every trip after that goes in by itself.
Every country you've visited, lit on a private 3D globe. Spin it to find a trip and fall straight back into it. The globe is the table of contents for your journal.
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