Arriving in Montenegro is like stumbling into a world in slow motion. Men dawdle in cafés and women saunter along the road nodding their heads, while kids hold out their hands lackadaisically to give us high fives as we pass.
In the Balkans, we are discovering, every conversation turns to politics. This evening, Mima, a glamorous young Serb on holiday with her sister, chatted to me about life in Serbia after Milosevic as we walked around Budva together. I asked her whether Montenegro should leave Yugoslavia. She tutted. "We have been together for years. Why do they want to leave now?" I gambled that the question was rhetorical. "But the most important thing," Mima broke the silence, "is that there is no more war."
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