8 June 2012: We left at the same time as a young French couple in a Renault 4 van who had driven it to China and back and were off to Albania! We drove north towards Durmitor National Park. We knew this would be a demanding day and hard on Braveheart but we hadn’t reckoned on Stella confusing us and we were dumb enough to believe her directions. We were fine up to about half way and then we turned off and followed a road which became narrower and often covered in fallen rocks and bolders and we found ourselves too far along it to consider turning back. Stella gave up before we did and just shut up and displayed ‘off road’ on her screen. We continued to follow a road cut into the side of the mountain up over a pass through beautiful wild scenery and over nearly 2 hours we covered only 40km and met only 2 cars and one motorbike. We arrived at our destination, somewhat shell shocked but amazed at how beautiful and untouched by commercialisation it was. We were in the highest town in the Balkans called Zabljak (over 1500m high) and after visiting the tourist information office, we entered the Durmitor National Park and walked around Black Lake at the foot of Medjed Mountain. This took over an hour and was just what we needed after a hard day’s driving. The surrounding woods in these mountains are apparently still home to bears and wolves. We found a lovely campsite just outside Zabljak with great views of the surrounding area and were given a warm welcome by the owners and some Austrian bikers who were already camped. View from the campsite: