Europe, with an Arctic cruise, a Balkan tour and bits of France and Malta

From there, we drove to a local family's place out in the country for lunch. These can be awkward, but this was great - but TOO MUCH FOOD!

View from their place

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Our lunch table, set with 'starters'

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But first mushroom soup (!! yes, I did think twice ...). Their own cheese, salads, cheese pie

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I didn't have main but on offer were two large stuffed peppers and two BIG pieces of potato! Or, two decent sized trout and potatoes. Also a veg option.

Our host, grand-mamma and her helper, Sammy

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Their own drinks trolley - rakia, blueberry and thyme juices, there was red wine

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Helper Sammy

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Tour of the farmyard - the meadow flowers were interesting to me!

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Driving out, with everyone stuffed (except me - I am saving for restaurant dinner)

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Next, concluding a long day, was a visit to a viewpoint over the Tara Canyon.

Tara River Gorge, is the river canyon of the Tara river. It is for the most part located in Montenegro, and to a smaller extent in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The most attractive part of the canyon are the high rocks of the mountain range of Ljubišnja, which are located in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Durmitor National Park. Known as "The Tear of Europe," the Tara River Gorge stands as the second deepest canyon in Europe behind the Sulak Canyon, and also behind the Grand Canyon for third deepest globally.

We probably didn't get to the best vantage point but nevertheless it was an amazing, verdant green feature. Up to 1,300m deep.



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Them after a long day, back to the hotel to find a digger has ruptured the water main and no water in the entire town. Killed time until dinner at the hotel outside bar area.

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Montenegrin flag - double headed eagle.

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Dinner at Or'O - Eagle - which was excellent. I'll reproduce part of the menu so you can see the type of things offered, and prices. Again, HUGE portions.

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About the wine:

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Trout was superb.

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We drove through there on a Contiki tour in 1982 - the scenery was stunning but the roads were 💩
 
Woke up feeling poorly after anther poor nights sleep.

Today it will take most of the day to travel abt 170km to the Bosnian Herzegovinian capital, Sarajevo. We are promised some mountain scenery, travelling a narrow former 'shepherds track' across the Durmitor mountains, and then down gorges on both the Montenegrin and Bosnian side and, more strictly, the Republika Srpska side. More on them later.


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With by now, mandatory zig-zagging down precipitous mountain ravines. This place is heaven for motorcyclists and the very earnest bicyclists.

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We went through dozens of tunnels - short to long, concreted to rough-hewn rock :oops: , all built in the Yugoslav days.

Starting from Zabljak, we soon turned onto a sealed narrow country road to ascend the winding road up into to Durmitor range. First stop was a view point at 1,950m

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Looking back the way we had come.

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The cars are mainly from hikers going up these steep mountains. Can you see them?

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and to where we are going to go.

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You can see our road.

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Wild horses

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Further down the valley to the mid right in the above pic, was a welcome coffee and toilet stop. Good coffee 2 euro.

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Nearby a statue to the Partisans who fought the Germans here in WW2.

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