Letters Home 💌 #11

Writing from: Budva, Montenegro

Dear Ones —

I am writing to you today from the top-level apartment in a high-rise overlooking the bustling town of Budva, Montenegro, where the Adriatic Sea laps up onto the rocky shore not too far away.

We left Canada just over a week ago, and have already landed in London, where we had a brief day to explore the city’s famous landmarks, before flying to Albania and driving to Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia. A six-hour drive brought us back through Albania to our home for almost a week, Budva: Montenegro’s most-visited destination.

It’s been a whirlwind, with multiple languages and currencies, unfamiliar foods (a matrix to navigate as someone who can’t eat gluten or dairy), and wild drives where people pass you in the most dangerous of locations.

It’s a delight and also a strain on the senses. We’ve seen ancient churches, rolling mountains, the most beautiful coastline, and both poverty and opulence. We’re supervising young kids on uneven terrain, by cliffsides, crashing seas, and on narro…