Montenegro, it's dead loss
Let see in Albania what's happen.
It's the only one comment I wanted to do going out of the country. However, I can't reasonably simplify like this, without argue.
So, let's develop.
About geography, there is not a lot of changes compared with Croatia : mediteranean climate, mountains, little vegetation. But there is no more isles face to to shore to embellish the landscape. So it's less beautiful but still nice.
I have just followed the coast, without explore the lands. So I will not speak about all the country.
The coast is overwhelm by tourist mass. There are some beachs, littles or bigs, and Tourism should be a large part of the economic ressources of the country, which don't seems to have a lot of others (the european agency of reconstruction aside...) : I met a lot of Serbian people (they will not go in Croatia !) but there is too a lot of germans, and Italians. Consequence : beach are just a big line of beach umbrella, where tourists look for 80 cm²/each one, and seen from the road, it's like a factory. Dumpy. And just after, nearly each time, it's a public open dump. Sometimes there is a camping between them...
The sanitary situation remember me the Bosnian one, and it's not a chance for me. People can access to the consupt society, but public supplies are not suffiscients. The border of the road , of the city, of the villages, everywhere it's full of rubbish... It's my environment during all the day, but the most borring, at the end, it's all the dead animals bodies I meet every ten minutes (it's biodegradable, so why to pick it up ?) : cats, dogs, hedgehogs, serpents, turttles, rodents, badgers, fox, I have even seen a wolf ! And everything in a decomposition statement from the fresh meat to black tarmac carpet
Add a merciless sun and very less shadow than in Croatia : I burn, I dissolve myself, I vanish km after km...
Add too a not welcoming population : the tourist who can pay will have no problems to find a room in town, but outside, nothing more. I make me drive away each time I ask to somefarmer if I can sleep on his land. One night, I slept without any permission in a remote place thinking I would be not discover, another time, I sleep in a house under construction, and the two others nights, I spend them in town. But sleeping ouside was not a very good idea : dogs, roosters, people working during the night... I accumulated some tiredness.
People there are generaly poor, but a minority make profite with tourism and some oportunities, and the social break I visible. I have seen in the city some car sellers from BMW and Audi, some pictures speaking about "Luxuary appartments" (the building is under construction) etc, but most people drive old Polo which make my lung sooty, and live selling 3 watermelon and 2 onion on the way. My impression, traveling there, is a mix of contempt and pity, increased by tiredness and irritation : this country look for receive a maximum of tourits, and for that, , he denies his reality of developping country, he hide his misery behind a screen for occidental people. Iwould do better to work for his people, and save the coast agin the builders, and assume a real public service !
So, hard warmth, inhospitality, touristic mass, dumps, tiredness : I'm realy happy to finish with this country which have the good idea to be little -> it's quickly crossed.
on le traverse tres vite.
I pass the border in the south of the country and stop to Shkoder, in the north of Albania, to have a rest. My head don't want to go anymore, and I have to find a new impulse.
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