Leaving Albania, Entering Montenegro
After a great night of sleep we had enough rest, after our great adventure from yesterday. The hotel beds slept perfectly and we slept as long as we could. As I recollect, we drove for 14 hours or yesterday. We ate some breakfast and from the balcony we had a view on a couple of houses and the big street, where our street was a detraction of. Many times we saw and heard honking vehicles driving by, a lot of them fit with decoration, obviously they were part of some wedding. This went on and on, therefor we thought it was some sort of national wedding day or something. After we paid the hotel we walked around a little bit, the city looked much more wealthier and western. We tried to find some bread an fruit. We were stunned by the difference, in Korce, the south of Albania it is so much more different then in this place, where there was no waste lying around, the people look less poor and the cars seemed to be in a better shape too. But still nearly only Mercedes of course 
After we cleaned up the car and checked all the fluids we continued in the direction of Shkoder. After 3 kms or something I decided to pull over. I heard the shockers crack and squeak lot, as if we were riding an old horse wagon.
This is probably the result of yesterday. For hours they were loaded and had to shock extremely intense. I took the jack out of the car and lifted it up. I inspected the car for some time and I saw nothing special, only a minor oil sweating close to the oil pump, which is a gasket which need to be replaced in the future, so no problem at all.
With 78645km on the odometer we continue in the direction of Shkoder. The roads are way better around here. Along the way we stopped and made a cup of coffee (cappucino with a little bit of Amaretto). Then with the mugs in our hand, we enjoyed the beautiful landscapes and sights around us. Albania is so beautiful, we can’t say it too often.
All the way to Shkoder, which is 200km up north from where we departed today, we look around us and were amazed all the way. The cities, people, nature, the cars, the mountains etc. It’s all so different.
At the end of the day we left Albania but it will be in our minds forever. It’s definitely one of the most beautiful countries we’ve been to.
At the border it all went easy, there was an english speaking official who was eager to ask us about how we experienced Albania and why we wanted to visit it and of course how Holland is like. He also talked about our famous EK in 88
The friendly man was very interested.
Early in the evening we entered Montenegro (former Yougoslavia). The first area we arrived in looked a bit like asia, stunningly beautiful! Lot’s of lakes, mixed with mongrove trees and mountains with their feet residing in the lakes. with the sun setting the scene was complete.
We stopped in Budva and found a simple hotel, but cheap. We couldn’t eat over there so we took the cooking stuff to our room, as we were already used to.
Our room had a balcony and an old shower, but it was okay, as long as we could sleep well it was fine with us.