Showing posts with label Bar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bar. Show all posts
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
A lovely view of Bar a bit messed up with purple paint
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Looking for Kojak
Looking for Kojak
The phantom ducks and stroll through Bar’s tidy town centre (enlivened by dentists’ adverts and a shopping centre made from what looked like concretised, half-sunk War of the Worlds tripods) set me up for the search for the Kojak Apartments. My handwritten transcription from Hostel Bookers was fine until I got to the point where the accommodation should have been. It wasn’t. And no amount of time looking (err, two hours) helped. In this time, I sidestepped dead hedgehogs on Zukotrlica Beach and received a clear indication that the street I was after was only one or two turnings away from a tobacconist set up on a residential side road. It wasn’t*.
It turned out I was in the wrong bloody town. Not only did Hostel Bookers mess me up, but I spent much of my time circling the Susanj tourist booth. Which I assumed was in, err, Susanj. Where Kojak was. The booth was shut, but its presence confirmed I was in the right area. KOJAK. In flippin SUSANJ. Yes, my research was lacking, but even so, Hostel Bookers clearly had that online golf tee pointing where Kojak wasn’t, but I was in the right area. Surely…?
No, as it turned out. The Susanj tourist booth turned out to be in Bar rather than in Susanj. And they - Bar and Susanj - were two distinct places. It all seemed too spiteful and designed to make me fail.
After huffing, puffing and getting overly acquainted with Bar’s northern outskirts - and not Susanj’s - I wandered into the kitschy looking MD Hotel and was told a night’s stay was 30€. I grabbed it. The MD was fine, even if the enthusiastically prepared breakfast cheese omelette next morning was nasty (egg ok; cheese a disaster).
* Note - it appears that Kojic may have been in Bar after all, having looked at the Facebook link. I don't know.....
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