I have already mentioned that in the last article I am already in Greece. How did it come to that so quick you might ask, and here are the explanation, the route, and thoughts.
Fort Sharp
Starting off in Croatia, at fort Sharp to be precise, where we slept the last night in Croatia. An absolute beautiful spot, in the evening with a few fishermen but they quickly left as the sun went down.
Let’s add a little bit of history here. Fort sharp was built by the Austro-Hungarian empire as a cannon battery to protect them Boka-kotorska bay. It changed owner during time multiple times but stood there since then. After the capitulation of Italy during WWII, the Germans found it on their target list and dropped some bombs on it, which effect can be seen today while visiting. 
We were strolling around and enjoying the evening as the sun went down. I also took a few photos until the light was not enough to get good quality pictures, at least with my camera. That was the reason I went up early next morning to give you guys a better quality.
As some cruise ships went on their own journey out of Montenegro, the looks were quite impressive, and we could hear the speakers on board talking to their guests. After the lights of the ships faded into the ocean the night were pitch black dark despite the lights, we could see shining from the next city you could not look at your hands before your eyes indeed. Well, that was until the moon showed his shiny face above the horizon. 
I can tell you that much, moonlight, some candles, good company and your favorite drink are enough entertainment you will need in such a place.
The forced drive
As you can see we skipped Montenegro and Albania almost entirely since we have heard some slightly disturbing stuff about traveling through the country. Albania, especially in this case. I cannot confirm nor deny those stories, but they went from bribed cops to ending up in a ditch.
The bottom line of this was basically what we heard all the time. The country is beautiful as long as you have friends there, who know their way around. Well, for me in person, there is no such a thing, and the talking made us quite uncomfortable to stay there overnight since almost everything we own is in our cars.
We took a few breaks on the route but nothing major since it was a hell of a drive. We started at about half past eight in the morning and ended up in Greece at around 10 pm in the evening. How is that possible? Glad you asked!
The border controls
We passed many borders before and were stopped from time to time to get our cars turned upside down. A classic case of surfboards on top, flowers on the mirror, Hippievan, there are drugs inside – no questions.
So there were conversations like: I know you have something with you, you can hand it over now or we can get the dog. Funny stuff how judgemental people are when it comes to looks. Naturally, they did not find a thing but crossing this much borders, losing half an hour each time is quite annoying.
At the last border to Greece, it was my car that got searched through every corner and the dog ad a few good sniffs on it as well. The Albanian officer who was quite a nice guy did look through my car and after all of that he told me that the car was really nice and that he has to do this. Well late at night, almost 10 PM, a transporter, only one passenger and stuff like that. Well, I was okay with that, just the waiting in the cold was not the most pleasant thing in the world but as the last border passed this day it was entirely acceptable.
Another big tip for you travelers out there and a thing I would have f****d up really hard by myself is the paperwork. I did not travel outside the EU with any type of car or Motorcycle or something like that. You need all your car papers as if you were in a traffic control and also a green paper (might be different in other countries) from your insurance where all the states are listed, where your insurance is valid.
I did not know this, but fortunately, our parents told us to bring the paperwork. Without them, our journey would have ended right there, at the border of Montenegro.
Monastery on a separated Island along the coast of Montenegro
The overall traffic was not really bad, except Tirana. Well, I did go into detail on that on my last blog so I don’t really want to go over that another time.
Reaching Greece
As it was already dark and we were tired beyond good and evil we gou ourselves a spot right beside the road of a village. Just a few dogs barking through the night as we talked a little bit and within minutes the police showed up to check what was going on but we did already crouch into our vans, and they left again without a word as they saw we were not out for trouble.
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