Back on bike - Montenegro

It's definitely time to start pedaling again, but as we exit Dubrovnik I see a very nice terrace overlooking the city. We end up eating croissants and drinking coffee for over an hour enjoying a very mellow start for today.

Up and down the hills along the coast we cross over to Montenegro. I'm expecting a lot of surprises and I get them. Montenegro is on the map in Europe for development. There is a lot of construction going on and a lot has already been built in the last decade. It makes things easy everything is pretty much as in Croatia except for small language adjustments and script which also includes Cyrillic characters.

Montenegro formally regained its independence on June 3, 2006, following a historic referendum held on May 21, 2006. In that vote, 55.5% of the electorate chose to end the state union with Serbia. This milestone marked the final chapter in the breakup of Yugoslavia and the revival of Montenegrin statehood, which had first been recognized centuries earlier at the Congress of Berlin in 1878.Read more