“The entire Boka and Kotor are the most beautiful when there is scirocco (južina, loc.), when the clouds go down, when the waves rise, when there is gloomy weather that usually makes people depressed. Because when the sun heats up, then the gray stone is full of color. When it is raining, stormy, when the wind is blowing hard, then you have little to look forward to, but Boka is beautiful“. As unpleasant as that weather can be, she enjoys going for walks, in boots and with umbrella. Even today, she is happy to walk across the squares, and through the narrow streets of Kotor, followed by the sounds of water coming through gutters, and those of pounding shutters.

The most demanding, but favourite, she finds the Perast-Kotor tour. She is glad when she sees the happy faces of the guests. She likes to take her guests to Prčanj, which is rich in architecture and nature; then to Dobrota and the church of St. Eustace with the famous collection of Dobrota lace.

Dolores believes that preserving the language must not and cannot be expensive, because it presents the wealth of a nation. “Our language is reflection of what Kotor has been through for centuries. Imagine 500 years of speaking Venetian from which our language originated. That time under the Venetian Republic brought a lot of wealth to entire Boka, and Kotor in partcular, and the language they left us, along with architecture, mentality, some traditional events, is something we have to pay great attention to. ”

Dolores points out that Kotor, as a medieval town, looks like a labyrinth in which you may get lost, “and when you get lost you will fall in love with it, with all those narrow streets, squares, vaults, rattling shutters, cats hanging around your legs. ” The most important thing for Dolores when she’s guiding tours is to bring the spirit of the city closer to her guests; history facts come after.

She thinks the highlights of Kotor tourist offer are boat trips, hiking tours, fortifications, Vrmac as a nature park unique in Montenegro offering views of Kotor and Tivat. She emphasises everything that is left to us from the period of Austro-Hungarian rule, “because what they left us is really worth paying attention to, and must be preserved, just as palaces and churches are preserved, roads, old retaining walls, old road drain canals, water tanks, trails, should also be preserved ”.

When it comes to pilgrims, one must go to Muo. “Blessed Gracija is one of the saints from Boka, known as the Bay of Saints. This is a special type of tourism that can be well developed in our country. Dobrota bathed in sun with its gardens, Risan – Illyrian and Roman. Then Our Lady of the Rocks, St. George and the famous Perast, Stoliv adorned with camellias and chestnuts; then Prčanj the hometown of captains, which is unique in its own wa. These are all small baroque pearls on the eastern Adriatic coast, and they make a perfection “.

When asked about her opinon how to preserve tradition and language, Dolores believes that a language won’t be forgotten if we are using it, and organising social gatherings, and that both the local radio station and the Cultural Center can help with all that by creating events and theatrical plays in our Kotor dialect. She also thinks that lessons in the local dialect should be introduced in schools, at least once a week, with all those grammatical errors that make our speech so charming.

In the end, Dolores says how she likes to spend her free time: “I choose to share a laugh in a good company, but also to watch comedies, listen to our coastal music from Boka and Dalmatia. I love to sit by window for hours and do Dobrota lace with a lot of love. I am also happy when I take a walk around Kotor without tourists, go to Madudina or Špiljari, climb Vrmac, and always in the mood for Kotor cream pie, or Dobrota cake. I love to swim or relax under a pine tree on a small stone pier,  pet every cat from Kotor that I come across, and greet everyone with Ke nova, Addio or Hello, and Goodbye and stay well. “