Croatian holiday - Sunday day tripping to Montenegro Part 2

After lunch in Budva, things got very interesting.  As predicted, there are 500K idiot drivers in Montenegro, one of which was apparently our Croat driver. 

The officials had shut down one lane of a 2 lane highway, meaning they were doing the traffic light thing, letting a stream of cars go from one direction and then stopping it and letting the other way go.  It was probably a good KM that was shut down.  Anyways, our driver ignored the red light (because fake FPJ said that's what you do in Montenegro) and pulled through.  Well apparently there had been a cop at that end radioing to his buddy at the other end to pull over a certain number of cars/vans/trucks that did this.  At the other end, we were pulled over, along with 5 cars in front of us.  Mind you, there is nowhere to pull over.  This proceeded to create the greatest traffic jam on history of traffic jams.  It involved cars, 18 wheeler trucks, 50 passenger buses, motorcycles, cliffs, etc.  I have never seen anything like it, and that includes Mexico.

Corrupt Barney Fife (probably Russian according to fake FPJ) finally realized the situation he had created about 20 minutes into writing up the first "ticket" (aka accepting his first bribe).  He came out to direct traffic and it took about 30 more minutes to get everything back in order, with us poor suckers still pulled over.  Fake FPJ once again banned the use of our photo devices, so all we could do was speculate at what was going on and marvel at the incompetency being displayed.

After the 5th car finally had a ticket (or paid a bribe), we pulled up.  I'm pretty sure the driver slipped the policeman something because about 10 minutes later, we were out of there.  Who knows.  I'm sure it was all very legitimate.

After a big delay that annoyed fake FPJ to no end (and we found out that fake FPJ had dj'd a party the night before, and was therefore running on 2 hours sleep), we headed to see the luxury hotel on St. Stephen's island:

Supposedly you aren't allowed to go out to it without paying for a room, which will run you 5000 Euro a night for a basic.  No thanks.  Sure looks pretty though.

After all of that, fake FPJ was just ready to get back.  He concluded the trip by pointing out the hotel where he says Casino Royale was shot:

I have it on good authority from some Bond experts that none of that movie was shot in Montenegro, but fake FPJ had all kinds of stories about seeing Daniel Craig in Montenegro.  He even pointed out a tunnel where he said part of a driving chase scene was shot.  Fake FPJ's nose just continued to grow.

We took a ferry across the bay this time rather than driving around:

That pretty much sums up the day - border crossing was easy and I got another Croat stamp to go with my Zagreb.  When we returned, the 4 girls went to dinner and over wine and pizza, recapped a great day.  Super fun, totally worth the early morning, cost and fake FPJ's insistence on bashing everything non-Croat.  I only wished I had done Bosnia the day before as well.