That is very true. But, unfortunately (in this context), I spent most of my professional career flying humanitarian aircraft in war relief in the midst of various conflicts (Angola, Mozambique, South Sudan, Somalia, Liberia, Western Sahara, and Rwanda, to name just the African countries), hence, I guess all my tolerance for disregard of the Geneva Conventions by combatants has been used up.

I found both of those countries to be very pleasant (also very inexpensive), although I thought the capital city of Montenegro was kind of dull and boring.

The road network in both countries is laid out in such a way that it is fairly easy to move across the two countries in one direction (for example, perpendicular to the coast), but difficult to move 90° rotated (for example, parallel to the coast, except along the coast itself). For me, this meant I had to do a heck of a lot more route planning - in order to visit all parts of the country - than I would normally do.

Oh well, the route planning will keep you active during a future winter night. I do recommend the Michelin maps of the area, I found them to be quite up to date and accurate. I did discover that the GPS cartographic databases listed all the roads, but did not distinguish well between very rough dirt roads vs. paved roads. In other words, the roads are all there in the GPS cartography, but the road attributes are not enumerated. So do be very suspicious of any GPS-based route planning.

Michael