Budva Beach



This summer, as the temperature rose and the rains stopped falling here in Montenegro, people swarmed in droves to the beaches along the coast. Seriously, I don't know where all these people came from. There are only 600,000 people in Montenegro, but the beaches were always packed from sunup to sundown, June through August. I suppose a lot came from other countries. I met quite a few Serbians and Russians this summer on the beaches. You can always tell the foreigners: they are the ones that are actually enjoying themselves, not just posing about trying to look like they know what they are doing as the Montenegrins are want to do.



One such foreigner, in addition to myself, was my (sort of) friend Angel from Moldova. She came down for a couple-weeks visit, which allowed me the excuse to get out of crummy Podgorica and show her the country. Indeed, Montenegro is not bad in the summer, as I was lucky to discover. Our first stop: Budva beach.



Budva is a nice town with an historic old town and some nice coastline. Though the beaches are dirty and packed, coated in small stones rater than sand, it is still a very convenient and pleasant beach side destination from Podgorica. And if you can squeeze past te crowds hoarding the beach, you can enjoy the sea, too!