Condé Nast Traveler: Montenegro - The Sweet Spot
24.06.2008
David Ebershoff goes in search of the real Montenegro, savours the taste and sights of a rich and varied landscape and finds the country sublimely beautiful. He starts his journey in Kotor:
” We'll start from the mountaintop. I am 1,350 steps above the small city of Kotor, the crown jewel on Montenegro's coast. From here, through an early-autumn mist, Kotor looks like a fortified town in a game of toy soldiers, and my perspective is that of the invader: hovering, looming, waiting. The city sits on a strategic triangle of littoral, protected by the Bay of Kotor to the west; the Škurda River—the silver, flashing, streaming home to the two pink trout that I will devour later in my journey—to the east; and, to the south, the rocky little fortress of St. Ivan, where I'm standing upon a crumbling rampart in the rain. In one glance, I can assess the whole city. The rooftops are waves of red pantiles. The churches and houses are a pale-gray local limestone that takes on an opalescent shimmer in the fog. Bell towers are ringing the hour, and the town's sturdy clock tower tilts slightly to the west…”
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