Yearning for a Yacht

so today is the big day (as it were) the very reason i've been pulled out here to Montenegro, it's my godparents daughter's wedding. I don't know much about the plan for today, apart from the fact that we (me + the parentals) have to taxi it to Perast before getting a boat to the Gospa od Skrpjela (the Church of Our Lady of the Rock) built in 1630 on a little artificial island.

It all sounds totally gorgeous and I can't wait to see the church (hello... architecture nerd here) so i'll be sure to take a snap or two for tomorrow's post. There won't be another post today since we probably won't be getting back from the wedding reception til the small hours of tomorrow morning.

Anyway, the fact that we have to get a boat to the church (this should be interesting since both myself and my mum are wearing heels today) got me thinking about boats in general. I used to take sailing lessons at my old school as part of my Navy training in the CCF (combined cadet force) and I really used to enjoy it.

Anyway, we wandered down to the marina here in Tivat for a look at the boats. They had this gorgeous big sailing ship docked waiting for passengers to take little pleasure trips around the bay. It's called the Jadran, isn't it fabulous!

there were some cute little pleasure boats big enough for two or three passengers. There were a couple of slightly bigger ones with cabin space for three or four. Then we found the 'A' (more like A list) dock filled with the fabulously massive and decadently luscious yachts. I'm not joking here, they were pretty darn-tootin epic-a-mundo. One of them had about five or 6 decks, a pool on the stern (back) and what appeared to be a helipad on the bow (front). God-dammit now I want a beasting yacht!

Even their names were awesome. The 'Queen K', 'Keri Lou III', 'Goldeneye' etc etc. I took this snap of them all lined up.

The likelihood of me ever owning a glorious yacht like this is pretty much non-existent but a girl can dream right?! oh an no... the golden yacht in the photo was NOT the one called Goldeneye. go figure...

That's about it for now. There was no post yesterday since I spent most of the day curled up in tears because of how chuffing ill I felt. I still don't feel 100%, it's getting really annoying now. I like it here don't get me wrong but I would literally give anything to be tucked up in my own bed at home right now, maybe watching Ghostbusters on my TV or just reading a book. Just to be back at home would be nice... please?!?

all i've eaten in the past 3 days is the odd handful of dry cornflakes, a dry bread roll and a couple of pretzel sticks. My energy levels seem to have vanished and it takes me an extra ten minutes to do everything.

In fact, since I have to be ready for this wedding by 1pm (local time) i'd better get a shift on. I'm still in my pj's and looking an absolute mess! best get going with the old GHD's and frizz ease!

Tatty byeeee

◕‿◕ xXx

Tivat Times ♥

Right well, so here I am, sat in my super cute little hotel room in the sunny not to mention dazzlingly pretty town of Tivat in Montenegro. It's been one hell of a long day, we got up at 5 which wasn't the problem. The problem was that I only ended up with 30 minutes to get up, get washed/dressed/made-up etc, packed, hair done and out the door.

Did I manage this impossible and ridiculously insane task I hear you cry?

Well, yes. But it wasn't easy!!! and i literally only just made it on time!

anyway after that it was onto Liverpool airport, our flight out to Dubrovnik left at 9:45 and landed at 12:15 GMT, obviously it was 13:15 Dubrovnik time. i would have known this if i hadn't have shoved my headphones on and dozed off listening to Kasabian the moment the plane took off.

one we'd made it out of the airport (also not the easiest task in the world) we had a nice 90 minute drive through the Croatian countryside (verrrry pretty) before FINALLY (after a bloody ridiculous 36 minute wait at customs and NO i don't care HOW cute some of those customs police men are!) made it across the border into Montenegro.

First thoughts?

just WOW! It is so pretty here. Now i've been to some lovely scenic places in my life but it really is gorgeous here. We had to catch this awesome little car ferry over to Tivat, here's a few snaps I took from the ferry at the amazing landscape around us. (NOTE: photos not edited in any way, the water really is THAT blue)

It's so sunny and bright here, and what with the glittering blue water and mountains right next to them, it's kind of a weird mix but it totally works and looks awesome. when we first crossed the border it sort of reminded me of Andorra, at first... only not landlocked, not Catalan, not covered in snow... and by the sea, obviously!

Oh and here's a delightful (NOT) shot of me and my mum looking verrry windswept as well as another showing the view off the back of the ferry.

Got to be honest though, i'm not doing too well with the whole language barrier thing. My friend Josh (who visits this part of the world every year) tried to teach me some basic phrases but it's the pronunciation that i'm really failing on.

I can spell the words just fine thanks to Josh and his linguistics skills, but ask me to say them and it's all over. I'm totally out of my depth!

Take me to Spain, France or Italy and i'll manage pretty well (i know the basics, but hey... it's enough) but here I literally haven't the foggiest.

I've not been too well today either, add to that the fact that I've been totally unable to check my facebook/twitter/gmail accounts for about 28 hours (SHOCK HORROR) i've been a bit of a state I suppose. Oh and I still have the dreaded cold. Yay.

Anyway, there's free wi-fi at this hotel but... it's about as fast as a tortoise with arthritis!

I can't make any of the pages connect and when they do it's for about 0.5 seconds and THEN a page comes up in Serbian or Croatian or... something, and I haven't a chuffing clue what's going on. I've mostly sat here unpacking and drinking Irn-Bru wondering how the hell I ended up here anyway...

i'm rambling. Sorry. Oh that's another thing, I was expecting an email off someone and there is NO EMAIL in my inbox. There are some new emails of course, but NOT the one i've been anxiously awaiting for the past day and a half.

Grrrrrr

yep... not best pleased. So now i'm sat here by myself listening to old Bee Gees songs and eating a bag of wine gums (I don't know why I bought them in the first place, I only like the green ones) and yes, I guess i'm feeling very sorry for myself.

I know, I know... I should shut the hell up and get on with life but you know me... stubborn to the last!

And i'm going to go now before I make even more of a fool of myself on here.

AND because my laptop is about to die and I don't have any adapters in my room (there you go... I told you i'd forget something!)

i'm staying in the hotel tonight, I can't be bothered going out to find anything to eat. I have wine gums and a bag of crisps and despite the fact that all i've eaten today is three wine gums from said bag (and a few sips of Irn-Bru) i'm sure i'll manage fine on that amount of grub.

I'll be ok. Right?!

Anyways... tatty bye or whatever it is they say here for goodbye!

oh, it's do viđenja

there, Josh taught me well you see

do viđenja dudes and dudettes

♥ ◕‿◕ xX

ps – i've eaten ALL of the green wine gums... now what the hell am I supposed to do with the rest!

Stranded in Ireland

so yes... because Karma obviously hates me i am unfortunately stranded indefinitely in a small, rather grotty (it is genuinely grotty... there's damp everywhere) hotel in Dún Laoghaire! we left Cork at 8:15am and drove for 3.5 hours to Dublin Port... where we were told the boat had been cancelled!

it must be really shocking weather because the English boat to Holyhead was cancelled as well. the problem is... the weather in the Irish Sea is so miserable at the moment, there's a strong chance the boat may be cancelled tomorrow as well!

THIS is what i look like at the moment

like a sad slice of Kawaii lemon

FML!!!!

normally i would find this sort of thing hilarious but...

1: i've been here for 11 days and i WANT to go home!

2: i'm supposed to be going out tomorrow night for my friend's birthday

3: i have run out of things to wear because i made sure to only pack enough for the trip

4: i got about 2 hours sleep last night so i'd definitely be tired for the boat this afternoon

5: i also starved myself ALL day to make sure i wouldn't throw up on the boat

6: i am insanely p***ed off because i was really looking forward to getting home!

so... i'm not a happy girly really as i'm sure you'll understand!

my friend Alex texted me to let me know the forecast is slightly better for tomorrow but let's face it... if it's like this today there's a pretty strong chance it's still gonna be as bad tomorrow.

well... Ireland obviously isn't willing to let me go just yet!

so now i'm stuck in this poky hotel room using up the free wi-fi and watching an endless stream of Johnny Depp films on my laptop (at least i came well prepared right!)

here's hoping i'll make it home eventually xX