Montenegro: A Day Trip to Sveti Stefan
“Steffi Stefan?” repeated Nicolas, the husband of the house I stayed in Budva-Montenegro, smiling at me. “You should say, “Sveti Stefan.” In many places in the Balkans, people welcome foreigners to their houses in exchange for a little amount of money. Nicolas’ wife was in charge of that business and bringing people to their house by waiting for bus arrivals at the bus station and agreeing on a price. I heard the Croatian government was not happy with the situation because of tourism revenues but it may not have changed in Bosnia, Montenegro, etc. since then. Nicolas was more into arts and repairs of the house, which was indeed beautiful as any place in Budva. I had stayed in their home before for a few weeks and this time Nicolas was teaching me some words of their language and I failed an exam saying “Steffi Stefan” in order to express a location I had heard for the first time but would understand that the name of Sveti Stefan would be carved into my brain as one of the must-visit places, after seeing it.
Accustomed steps took me to the bus station over a sidewalk, which was about a kilometer to the house, ornamented with beautiful houses, gardens, and shops.
The people you may encounter here in Montenegro could at all time ratify what I read about a decade ago, whose source I do not remember but it was alleging that the people here are very tall. Indeed, you could see tall people here and there anywhere in Montenegro. Their women and girls are self caring and good looking. They are generally polite people. Every country has gifts to offer and explore. The coastline of Adriatic has really nice people, to the extent you can hardly meet any person with bad intentions and any public area not well-cared for and maintained. Back to tallness, history confirms how famous this place with its town people is: back in the Ottoman period, the members of the Janissaries, an elite unit of the Ottomans, were being recruited from Montenegro. When two-meter soldiers wore a special cap called kavuk, which is one-meter in height, they became three-meter scary rivals for enemies-actually they would one day rebel against the Ottomans and become one of the causes of the chains of events that brought along the fall of the empire. Some oral sources say people in Montenegro were happy to send their sons to the empire as they would become viziers or attain very high ranks with considerably good subsistence.
At the bus station, there were scheduled bus trips to Sveti Stefan and it was not difficult to find one soon. About a 15-minute ride would take me there.
Busses take their passengers along a road with a beautiful landscape of the Adriatic coastline, dropping by a few places full of nature, particularly tall good trees and nice plants. They continue into the village of Sveti Stefan that harbors that beautiful isle.
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