If you squint your eyes, you can see the fortress way up there in the mountain. It has 1,375 stone steps to get there. We avoided all of them!

The website for the fortress says “Visiting Kotor and not climbing up St. John’s / San Giovanni Fortress is like going to Rome and not bothering to see the Colosseum.”

Well, done that twice. (Rome, but no Colosseum). Long dead people don’t excite me. Living people, strangers as they might be, is my kind of gig…

Could have called the town Cator, for all I care.

What is it? In India, we grew up with these “tubewells”. Never had that structure.

This is in Old Town, Kotor, Montenegro.

Check out the two dates on the two pillars!