If you travel anywhere this year, says Joanna Blythman, you should go to Montenegro.

"It's hard to think of anywhere else in Europe where I would find, or could afford, such an all-round blissful situation" writes Blythman in the Sunday Herald. The Boka Kotorska is " the finest natural pool imaginable" with clear water warmed up by weeks of reliably hot weather, and darting shoals of tiny fish. Precisely because it lacks sandy beaches, it has been spared the worst grey concrete developments. Instead is has a series of pontoons, jetties with steps, and narrow pebbly beachfront fringed by human-scale architecture.
The ancient town of Kotor has miraculously intact Baroque, Romanesque and Gothic buildings peeping out from the vertiginous city walls which bond it to the mountains. And importantly for Blythman, in the daily food market outside Kotor's ancient walls there will be "silvery whitebait and squid; smoked, dried Montenegrin ham sliced off the bone; handmade cheeses - perhaps preserved in oil or pressed with walnuts - and an explosion of fruit. In Montenegro, the sun-soaked apricots and peaches spurt juice down your chin and wrist, the watermelons split under the slightest pressure, the raspberries, brambles and multicoloured cherries explode with a flavour that sings out sun and growing methods that have barely changed over the centuries".
How can you resist!