We tried to get on the road early today to avoid the heat - it always seems to take 2 hours from when we get up to being on the bike, no matter how much we try. We were going by 8am today - a good start, but already it was warm.
We headed east out of Trebinje to a border crossing at 1000m rather than going down towards Dubrovnik where the roads would have been crazy. Followed a river for the first 15km, then the uphill began.
Another straight forward border crossing except had to avoid the cows wandering across the road.
I booked accomodation through booking.com at an almost deserted place - Grahovo. Eventually found the place by recognising it from the photo in the booking. At least there were plenty of places to put up the tent if we couldn't find it! But our sim card doesn't work in non Euro countries so we had no way of letting them know we'd arrived and had to sit around for about 30mon waiting.
They're great hosts - Dragida and her mum Tanya. A bottle of wine on arrival then Tanya, who loves cooking, made us some little dough balls called preganice - a specialty of Montenegro along with some kajmak, honey and cheese. Then she brought us some apple and cherry cake for desert. Also provided some cherry liquer, strawberry cordial, cucmubers, and will cook up some breakfast for us in the morning. :-)
What lovely hosts - you must have been very glad when you found them!
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