We had a bit of time to kill this morning on account of the fact the car didn't need to be back until 2pm. We'd planned to drive the utterly batshit Serpentine road into Kotor but we'd done that the previous day to beat the weather and fuck me, I am so glad we did. [...]
The original plan was to go to Pluลพine via the northern section of the scenic Durmitor Ring drive and leave via the southern section, but I did a bit of a Google on this road and decided I did not have the necessary nerves for this endeavour. People in forums who described themselves as confident [...]
We need to talk about burek. I could eat this shit all day. It's a flaky pastry stuffed with meat, or spinach, or cheese, or whatever. We first had it in Virpazar, little cheese and spinach triangles and tiny cheese spirals. But this morning our host baked a massive cheese spiral for breakfast and it [...]
The reason I wanted us to camp here within the Biogradska Gora National Park was because I knew it'd be chaos when the day trippers were here. I wanted us to experience the calm when they left which I'm sure Tarrant did but I was too busy with my head down the toilet. At least [...]
I'm really enjoying Montenegro but I feel like learning road etiquette would be so much less stressful if other drivers weren't so impatient. You can take the calmest, most rational person in the world but as soon as you put them behind the wheel of a car they become filled with the Rage of a [...]
The plan this morning was to go for a swim in a nearby river followed by a little jaunt up to a waterfall for more swimming. Possibly the kind of swimming that would cryogenically freeze all of your organs but the days were sticky and hot so we'd probably relish these few minutes of cold. [...]
Today we'd be driving to Bar. Or I'd be driving, Tarrant would be sitting in the passenger seat periodically reminding me that we're meant to be driving on the right and also I have a whole car to the right of me and she'd thank me to remember that when considering my road positioning. We [...]
We'd seriously considered not heading to Malargรผe yesterday because we really liked Valle Grande but fuck me, I'm so glad we made that 200 kilometre dent in the journey. The mighty Ruta Nacional 40 is the stuff of legends. It's the kind of road people do just too say they've done it. Y'know, like Route [...]
In my twenty-odd years of driving I've never seen so many people casually driving down the middle of narrow roads, at speed, on a blind corner. It's utterly fucking terrifying. Greek drivers are maniacs. I've been crawling around the hairpin bends, we've met so many drivers coming the other way and they don't even try [...]
We'd fully intended to pack up our worldly belongings into the car then head to a campsite in Mystras near Sparta to explore the area, but Camping Gythion Bay was just too fucking lovely. Mystras was less than an hour's drive away and if we stayed here it'd actually put us closer to our next [...]
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