Dubrovnik – Novo Selo

17th day

For me, it has been an eternal journey; I couldn't see how we would reach our destination. A few kilometers, but very dense because the first part was a coastal road, and it wasn't moving at all 😶‍🌫️ (I can't imagine how it is during high season). On top of that, Thorqui and I were stuck for almost an hour at the border with Montenegro 😓

Beast and T took another route and had a much better experience, not to mention that if you're a bit skilled (and Thorsten is), you can dodge the traffic and save yourself from an endless queue 😡.
I'll tell you that we left Dubrovnik so quickly because we already considered it visited yesterday, and knowing about the half marathon, we didn't want to dive back into the city with all that chaos.
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We narrowly avoided the race. We had to wait due to closed roads, but it wasn't too heavy.

We crossed the border and entered Montenegro, looking for the Prokletije Mountains, a mountain range of the Dinaric Alps located in the eastern part of the country, shared with Serbia and Albania.

The coast is behind us as we head inland so that T and Beast can explore the wonderful roads that the route has to offer over the next two days.

And when I say T and Beast, I mean just the two of them because Thorqui and I are going to stay at the base camp, resting and enjoying our little moments, as we've been on the road for almost three weeks now, and I need to disconnect a bit 🤫… Or at least I do 😅.

Yesterday, when I was looking for places to stay tonight, I found the wonderful place where we are staying today, a family estate that opens its doors and welcomes you as if you were one of their own.

T arrived earlier and felt so comfortable that when I arrived and saw we were parking in their garden, I suggested we look for something else… he gave me a look 🤣… which he never does.
Normally, I choose the places where we stay by searching on social media or apps, and if we don't like them when we arrive, we either look for other places or we endure it, spend the night, and leave quickly 🤔. Here, T felt at home from the very first minute. In a place like the one he has in Gata de Gorgos. The family running it is taking advantage of the tourist pull that is emerging, but it still retains that charm of making you feel at home, and the place couldn't be more beautiful. They are lovely; we are camping in their garden 🫢 and they have made us feel from the very first moment as if we had been with them our whole lives...

The whole place conveys the warmth of its owners. They have given us free rein to everything to the point that they went to the village and left us in charge in case any more campers came 💗.
We couldn't ask for more. It feels like home.

Good night… I'll keep you updated 😘