Zabljak

Not much happening today as the weather was awful.  Pelting down rain and what felt like a cyclone buffeting the chalet.  (We can't complain though as this is only about the 4th day we've had ordinary weather on our trip.)

Get me out of here....

Stayed indoors most of the day before a tiny break in the weather (and cabin fever) lured us outdoors.  Grabbed the map and headed up into the Durmitor mountains to see what we could see. 

No sooner had we left than the rain and winds came back with a vengeance.  Throwing common sense out the window we drove up a narrow winding road high up into the mountains thinking that it possibly couldn't get any worse.  

We were wrong.  

As we ascended the winding road in the ever agile Grand Kangoo the wind and horizontal rain made for an interesting time as the distinct lack of guard rails or road shoulders guaranteed certain death a mere two or 300 metres below in the event of a miscalculation.

We finally reached the saddle in the mountains and were prepared to go on when the wind and rain got even worse and visibility plunged from a brilliant 100m or so to a myopic 20m.

We did get out of the car though at the turnaround point to see what the wind was like and without a word of a lie the kids could barely stand up in it.

Given the Kangoo is the size of a bus and likley to be blown clean off the face of the mountain we pulled the pin and headed back home.

Still, indoors with a beer and a roaring fire in the chalet is not a bad consolation prize.

Stray observation:  Montenegro uses the Euro.  Don't let not being part of the E.U. or meeting any of the economic requirements set down by the European central bank stop you.  (Not that that worried Greece.)  Just adopt it anyway.

Great stuff.