I could avoid Albania & Montenegro altogether! How? Well, I could take a ferry from eitherย mainland Greece or Corfu to Brindisi, then visit my good friends Basil & Liz (who I stayed with at the end of my Eurovelo 5 trip) who live in Cisternino (only 50 kms from the port). I could then cycle to Bari a little further north from where I could catch a second ferry toย Dubrovnic in Croatia.
But that would be cheating and it would be a shame to miss out the potentially most adventurous bit of the journeyโฆ