To get to the small country of Montenegro, where we would spend a week hiking, we first flew into Stockholm for a 24-hour layover.  In Stockholm we participated in a Nordic food and drink tour.  One very memorable part of the tour was the Swedish licorice. Evidently the Swedes love their sour/bitter licorice. Most of our group spit it out immediately. Those of us who did not wished we had. But we loved Stockholm.  We then flew into Split, and had a driver take us south along the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia to Dubrovnik, where we would meet our hiking group. Along the way, we stopped in the towns of…