We had a wonderful week's stay at David and Angelique's beautiful apartment. It commands a breathtaking position over Kotor Bay and is well situated within walking distance (albeit up a very steep hill!) of two very good restaurants, and a small corner shop supermarket. We had everything we needed and slept very peacefully too. It's lovely to watch the sun come up over the mountains in the morning, the cruise ships enter and depart the bay, and the lights across the water gradually shine longer towards you as the evening draws in. The pool underneath is a welcome end-of-day treat in which to cool off in the shade. It's a short drive to a lovely small pebbly beach alongside the Hotel Splendido where the water is crystal clear and as warm as a heated swimming pool! A little bit further along is the beautiful old town of Kotor, which is definitely worth a visit, with a cool beach and bar, a kids' play area, shopping centre and lots of cafes, bars and souvenir shops to wander round in the old town. A further drive around the bay to Perast is a bit more upmarket and modern in terms of eateries and boat trips to some islands are available quite cheaply there too.

The mountains around the bay are so beautiful that it feels a lot less impressive when you enter the tunnel and come out the other side on the road to Budva, which as a town feels very overdeveloped and touristy, but the beaches nearby, particularly Jazz beach are well worth a visit. One side of the bay is very busy, noisy, but with cool inflatables for the kids, whereas if you walk all the way along the walkway to the far left end it's like some kind of Caribbean island. Hardly anyone around, a big space between sun beds and a very trendy beach bar nestled on the far rocks, which has waiter service too! Sveti Stefan is much-talked about, but very busy and commercialised. If you get a bed near the beach bar you can use their wi-if all day though...

Another day out was the long (90min) drive up to the Loscven National Park, which was actually just a big expanse of trees and didn't really have any kind of main entrance, but it did have a restaurant and a rather impressive walk up steps towards a mausoleum. I'm all honesty the drive up was far more impressive and you see the whole of Kotor Bay from a great height. If I could relive the day I would've just driven half way up to take in the view and then come back down again and gone to the beach.