Montenegro mountains and Lake Skandar

It rained. Not a little, a lot, and all day, but once you are wet through, it's not so bad..A hire car because the buses weren't running early enough and Balkan trains are so limited..up the switchback road behind Kotor to the Njegos Maudoleum, 19th national hero who united the Montenegrin clans and founded a state. He wanted apparently to be buried on the second highest peak in the Lovcen range, because he was sure a greater leader would follow, more deserving of the highest honour..not like any current politicians, then..Bought fresh mountain prscut (ham), admired scraps of view amongst the clouds, drove through unspoilt green, wild land, old royal capital and the return of the Cyrillic alphabet to Lake Skandar. No sun, no swimming, but lovely Italian company, birds, water lilies, mountain horizons and 15th century frescoed monastery in the green waterworld.. to Podgorica and Balkan meat-fest..Read more