I'm back in Montenegro for more meetings, and the weather is truly perfect though, of course, I'm sitting in the shade.

Tivat Municipality is proving to be extremely difficult about all the changes we believed had previously been approved. It turns out the original architect hadn't submitted them properly, so we're almost back to square one. We now realise that the planning process is going to take much longer than we had originally anticipated.

A few months earlier, my daughter and I had come across another lovely house on a Montenegro property website. So, while I was here, I thought, why not go and have a look at it?

I phoned an English estate agent I already know at ntRealty, who happened to have that same lovely house still on his books that I had see all those months ago.

Off we went to see it, and it was one of those special property moments: love at first sight.

It consisted of two very old houses. The first had three floors and was structurally sound, though it needed to be completely redesigned and updated. The second had two floors with much larger rooms, but it was a complete ruin.

I nearly forget o mention it also had most exceptional views.

I'm going back to London tomorrow and, never being one to let the grass grow under my feet, I will immediately put in an offer to buy this potentially beautiful property.