Bar

is the name of the place but for the life of me I can't find a bottle of pear brandy. Spent the weekend by a little pancake island called Sv. Stefan, in Montenegro. You may be familiar with Serbia and Montenegro from their 7th place showing in last night's Eurovision song contest. (Kudos, Greece.) The wedding band, a brass ensemble like in all the Serb movies, struck up at around 8:00 and rang through all the stone staircases of the town. Is there a term for "picturesque" in other senses? "Sampleable"?

Tonight, the train from Bar to Belgrade, "one of the world's great mountain railroads." Full moon.