Concrete and Internet

Some people may wonder how he is doing without the internet. A legitimate question. Of course, it's incredibly difficult to wake up in the morning, take your phone in your hand, and then realize that you can't spend the next 20 minutes mindlessly pressing it, swiping right and left, or simply scrolling up and down. Throughout the day, you are constantly confronted with fighting against the inner emptiness, while simultaneously trying to fill that gap with something that somehow distracts you and makes you happy. Candy helps me a lot.

At night, I dream of lying on the beach in Greece with a full battery and the best LTE network, while using several apps simultaneously and surfing on various websites without any worries. Finally, Spotify is playing in the background again.

So, considering the circumstances, I'm doing okay.

Apparently, there are bars or cafes here with Wi-Fi. By the time you can read this post on the internet again, you can assume that I have found a Wi-Fi source somewhere.

But now to the actual topic:

Every country usually has its peculiarities. In order to get authentic impressions here as well, we walked towards Budva, the nearest major city, today. It's about 10km away. So, what are the first thoughts and impressions?

Some things have already been suggested on the way. I mean, I mentioned in the first post that it's somewhat touristy by the sea. It should have actually meant it's somewhat excessively touristy. It feels like almost all the places and cities here consist of overly large hotel complexes and vacation homes. Aside from the fact that at least as many are being built again, assuming that the 237 rough buildings that are standing everywhere here will actually be completed. Many of these sometimes really big concrete buildings look more like you might have changed your mind because suddenly you realized that money is running out or the city already consists only of such bunkers.

I think to better understand the approach of such construction projects, you would have to sit down with a local contractor.

In any case, first pour the concrete for the shell, maybe add windows and then wait.

This area is already crazy. Between abandoned and now run-down buildings, like a beach bar that obviously used to be intended for tourism, new facilities are being built just a few meters away, and in between are such ones that look like you could start a small construction project for a change, but then after pouring the concrete, you realize that you should have taken a closer look at the financing.

I have no idea how to imagine the average holidaymaker here. Who spends their vacation here?

And where do the locals actually live?

Many of the holiday resorts are not even open yet, and some probably never will be, but many certainly will. Anyway, there wasn't much going on here in Montenegrin holiday paradise.

Exploring the area was definitely very exciting. There was a lot to see in this small part of a small country. The Balkans once again reveal their best side here, and that's not irony, because there is much to discover and the country definitely has much more to offer.

In the afternoon, we took the bus back to our 'camping'. The evening ends early today as well. Satisfied, we go to bed after dinner at sunset by the sea.