Perast

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After visiting the castle and buying tickets for Goran Bregovic in Budva tomorrow night we head for Perast, a nice little village recommended to me by many. The hitching is nice and easy, our 3 rides get us there in no time. We find a nice small place where every construction fits in, they are no modern great concrete buildings or hotels, everything respects the local older architecture of stones and red roofs. We find a nice room with a view on the see since Milinko, a couch surfer who hosted Alain and is a good friend of Mina and Natasa has no more couches available.
I swim to the Island out there in the bay. there are actually two of them, one natural with a catholic monastic and one artificial with an orthodox church. The later is said to be build on hundreds of sunken ships. I swim to th first and as rest there, i find a small black diamond shaped stone I fist think it is plastic but putting it in my mouth i feel it is at least glass. It is the second find in two days after finding a golden ring yesterday in the bus. I love to find things, it is always exciting and compensates with everything i loose :) It also nice to imagine what this unknown object has been trough before ending where you find it.
At night after a good pasta plate in a restaurant, we meet Milinko and his hosts for a couple glasses of vine. They are very warm and welcoming, listening to various types of music, always enjoyable, How nice to hear some of my favorite reggae tune again! Milinko is all fascinated with Perast, it was the Pirate capital in Europe, was or still is?? We have a great time amongst him and his host, speaking about music, food, vine, travels and work. The later subject along with visas come up often with young people in the Balkan but this time it is a bit different, we are talking about ideal jobs, moving around and having enough free time. My dream too. And i most say the idea of it is very seducing and i keep trying to figure out a way. The best i found so far to live a simple and fulfilling life would be to be seasonal worker in some sport or in tourism and travel the rest of the year. Night brings advice doesn't it?

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