Raining
gently. A
guy came past on a tractor with trailer and dropped off the trailer
on the edge of the soccer field then drove the tractor to the top of
the small hill that I had been eyeing off last night. Obviously the
tractor needs to be roll started. He started shoveling dirt into the
trailer and John took his spade and went and helped. He re-coupled
the trailer and drove off.
We
left and headed for Albania. Crossing out of Montenegro was easy,
there were 4 cars in front of us and the policeman came and collected
our passports. We had to wait at the little window a while to receive
ours back. We drove off then realize they had not been stamped so we
went back. The police man happily stamped them for me. When I got
back to EC there was a lady asking for money for her hungry son. We
gave here a pear, I don't think it was appreciated much.
We
stopped in Shkoder to get some money. The town was choked with cars
so we got out in a hurry, but everywhere I asked we needed to go back
into the center for a SIM card.
We drove up towards the Rozafa
castle but the little bridge didn’t look like it’d hold us. We
parked and John made us a sandwich with the new buns purchased, Quite
good bread. We contemplated walking up to the castle but it was
raining still and already 3pm.
I
chose a different way into the city which was far less chaotic and I
managed to purchase a vodafone SIM with 5gb for a month and 10gb of
social media access……
John
had noticed a neat ferry trip for 25km up river. So we headed that
way while I tried to research. Didn't look like it ran in winter but I
tried to book. We drove 14km out a windy slow road around the edge of
the lake when we got confirmation that the ferry was not running so
we high tailed it back out. Parked on the side of the road after dark,
5kms from the turn off. Dogs barked all night with only the
occasional car passing.89km