Montenegro

I fell in love with Montenegro and have been itching to go back since I left.

I skipped the capital almost entirely and got a little convertible instead, driving through a country whose name literally means Black Mountain, top down, having a full DDLJ moment.

Then there’s the landscape. Kotor Bay pulls you in on a serpentine road that climbs out of the water in tight hairpins, and Durmitor answers with glacial lakes and pine forest, the Tara River Canyon cutting through it all as the deepest gorge in Europe.