“What’s fascinating about this Dalmatian Coast cruise I’m on is to see various ancient walled cities—Dubrovnik, Korcula, Kotor, Diocletian’s Palace in Split—in varying stages of tourism development. The least developed—and, for that reason, the most enticing to me personally—has been Kotor, in Montenegro. My husband and I climbed 1,300 feet to the top of Kotor Fortress so we could shoot this pic of the Bay of Kotor. (Can you spot our ship, the Azamara Quest, docked below?) Imagine Dubrovnik before it got a cable car, a 3-D movie, a Ralph Lauren shop, Surf ‘n’ Fries, and 10,000 cruise-ship daytrippers, and you’ve got Kotor. It’s the next Hvar, in my humble opinion—it’s already been discovered by the multi-million-dollar yachts (all flagged in tax havens) docked in its harbor—so… get there SOON!” —More Mediterranean dispatches from Consumer News Director Wendy Perrin