Friday 8 September 2017 - Bar again

The plans for seeing Montenegro have got very complicated.  The problem is weather.  The yachtsman from Montenegro told us that the weather report shows a terrible storm coming in on Monday and Tuesday with 30-45 knots of wind.  The weather report is also for continuous rain on Saturday.  So we must find somewhere to shelter unless we stay here for a week, which is very dull.  There is an inland sea we wanted to visit called the bay of Kotor.  In it we are advised is the most luxurious marina in the world.  So the plan was to go there this morning after filling with fuel.  We sent them an e-mail to make sure it was OK.  But weather intervened.  It started to pour with rain in the middle of the night with tremendous lightening and thunder.  That continued until morning and showed no sign of abating.  So, we decided not to leave.  Who wants to motor 7 or 8 hours in pouring rain and thunder storms?

The rain continued in bucket loads until 3pm today.  Then surprisingly the sun came out.  So we ran off to do some food shopping as I am still using the supplies bought in Corfu before we left!  We tried to get laundry done, but the lady who does it here does not have a dryer and with the rain could not dry the clothes.  At one stage it was said that this weather would continue until Tuesday!  But no, we hope there will be a respite on Sunday when we will go to Porto Montenegro.  We will be there at some expense for probably 3 days.  If the weather is rubbish we may hire a car.  That is if we can.  The pilot book, which has been wrong on most details says you need an International Drivers License to rent a car, but the staff in the Marina say this is not correct.  We shall see.


So it looks like another day here.  Hope we can find something to do to fill the time.  I did expect the weather to deteriorate near the end of September, but not now!

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