Andorra Travel Blogs

Hilltop duty-free!
Apr 14, 2007 (5 photos)

(C) Who knew the world's best duty free corn nuts are to be found at the top of the Pyrenees?!  If you happen to pass through, owever, and you find yourself tempted by any one of the hundreds of shiny green bottles of absinthe so ...

McLies and stuff, including stamp number 3
Jul 28, 1998

... over, tried starting it up and it was all ok. So we drove, came to a tunnel went through it, and there it was, Andorra. Complete with customs police, so we asked and got stamp number three. As we entered Andorra, it was very similar to Gibraltar. A huge ...

Andorra
Sep 7, 2005 (1 photos)

We took a 6.00 am bus for a day trip to discover the little country of Andorra sandwiched between Spain and France. It has some of the most dramatic scenery of huge mountains and is popular as a cheap place for Europeans to ski and shop. We had been ...

Andorra
Oct 12, 2005 (1 photos)

... in Andorra. It is a REAL problem and one that is only going to get worse as the country increases. Basically, Andorra is a huge tax-free shopping complex. Huge electrical stores, perfume stores make up the mass shopping areas. There are some savings ...

MAGIC IN THE MOUNTAINS
Feb 7, 2005 (2 photos)

Blond Klara from the Czech Republic found a ski pass last week. A tourist had evidently lost it. Little Klara became very excited, more excited even than usual. She and black-haired Slovakian Martina already had ski passes for the whole season. But, ...

DON´T GET CAUGHT DRINKING BEER ON THE JOB
Jan 8, 2005 (2 photos)

Hey, everybody! My new job in the supermarket is really a lot of fun, and here´s precisely why: ... Do you remember when you were one-and-a-half years old, how much fun it used to be to play with blocks? ... (I apologize to all my readers ...

WE COME FOR SKI WORK
Dec 19, 2004 (2 photos)

... by a thick polygonal wall. The French Pyrenees retained all the charm the Andorran towns lack. Nevertheless, it was in Andorra where I began looking for work. On my first Andorran day, I hitchhiked around the country with a short Chilean named ...

KLARA AND MARTINA (MY FRIENDS)
Jan 30, 2005 (2 photos)

... . It´s kept me from taking hitchhiking trips to France on my days off. A lot of the snow in touristy Pas de la Casa, Andorra, falls on the roofs of six-story hotels and apartment buildings. Sometimes, this snow bunches up and hangs over the roof´s edge ...

A BLURRY NIGHT OUT IN ANDORRA
Feb 18, 2005 (2 photos)

... bar, then headed to the nightclub. "The Underground" nightclub is one of the best things going for Pas de la Casa, Andorra. It caters mostly to English tourists with music like Oasis, the Rolling Stones, U-2, the Beatles, and English house music. It´s ...

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE SLOPES
Dec 26, 2004 (2 photos)

... in a white sauce, potatoes, pork and roast beef with grape jelly on top, and tons of gravy. "Mmmerry Christmas from Andorra!!!" After our days of snowboarding and eating, we often go out dancing and drinking. It´s fun. (Although, my co- ...

FINALLY, CULTURE IN ANDORRA
Mar 20, 2005 (3 photos)

... horses. I should just keep eating grass and acting like I like it. No - really, I did smile A LOT while in Andorra. I got to snowboard. I laughed and played a ton with my roommate, Cyril, and other French co-workers. I laughed so much ...

WORK-MATES
Feb 28, 2005 (3 photos)

... is beautiful and exciting, and it just feels better the better you get at it. But, the lift passes in Andorra are expensive. 5. "THE UNDERGROUND" AND "KYU" DISCOTECHS LA PERLA NEGRA´S OWNERS; LOTS OF GREAT DOGS; THE WINTER HUMBLES YOU; and THE ...

I´M MAKING A KILLING IN THE SUPERMARKET
Jan 1, 2005 (4 photos)

... Happy New Year, everyone. Let´s make 2005 the best year yet; I think it´s going to be. There´s good news from Andorra. I just got into the supermarket three days ago, and I´ve already biseptuploubled my money. I only had nine Euro´s when I ...

OFF-PISTE
Mar 12, 2005 (3 photos)

Hey! from the Pyrenees, where the snow's still falling. My working days in Andorra came to an end last Friday. My co-workers were sad to see me go. One earlier morning, Cyril - who's really a French giant koala bear - had been juggling an orange ...

Andorra
Aug 22, 2007

Was working close last summer so we went a few times for shopping! Exciting place!

Pyrenees & Andorra
Aug 7, 2007 (9 photos)

Pyrenees

there's a first time for everything
Oct 8, 2006 (25 photos)

... my belief that Ireland is the most expensive place in the EU. Things were much much cheaper in Spain than in Ireland. Andorra - Friday morning, with little hope of acquiring a room in BCN for the next two nights, I made an executive decision to ...

FAM TRIP ANDORRA 2005 COM IBERSKY
Dec 15, 2005 (6 photos)

  Viagem Promocional a Andorra com a Iberski! No passado dia 11 Dezembro fui com a Iberski a Andorra durante 5 dias! A viagem iniciou no Aeroporto da Portela, 11 agentes ( Bruno, Sofia, Sandra Rocha, Lizete, Andreia, Mónica, Rui, Sérgio, Bruno ...

Andorra
May 18, 1996

Andorra

day trip to Andorra and Spain
Jul 13, 2008 (12 photos)

Lots of driving, good Catalan lunch, chugging our way to the top of the mountain, waiting in traffic and barely moving in 2+ hours, and then back to Le Chalet.

Those of you who are getting bored of my ...
Feb 12, 2003 (5 photos)

... a great time and everyone returned home in one piece, although there were a few bruises. First, I will tell you a little about Andorra. It is a country, not a region of Spain or France, as it is often confused. It is small - 60, 000 people, total! ...

Andorra
Jul 17, 2009 (4 photos)

A place to come back to in winter.

Home in Andorra
Oct 23, 2007

La Massana

Andorra la Vella - Walking In A Winter Wonderland
Dec 2, 2005

... twiddling your thumbs. Twiddling it was. The ride to Andorra la Vella, the only town and thus capital city of Andorra, is beautiful. Spanish villages are everywhere, sunk into valleys with blankets of fog around them. Into view come the Pyranees, ...

Little Country in the Pyrenees
Apr 16, 2009 (23 photos)

... and Spain.  Well, turns out there is - a beautiful little country located in the middle of the Pyrenees mountains called Andorra.  Though the smallest European country, it has the second longest life expectancy of any country in the world and is ...

Skiing in Andorra
Dec 20, 2003 (1 photos)

... EU because well, it likes to do as it pleases. Even the normally enthusiastic travel folk at Lonely Planet concede that Andorra offers "relatively little of cultural or historical importance". It has no real politics to speak of and spent both World ...

This country is so cute!
Nov 2, 2004 (4 photos)

It is getting all snowy in Toulouse so we headed to the Pyrenees to see the mountains all glittery and white in Andorra. The country is so little and cute! We drove across it in half an hour, and it would have taken less time but the mountains are icy. ...

Skiing in Andorra
Feb 3, 2008 (36 photos)

... a couple of drinkies to fill in the time....   One evening we took the half hour bus ride to the capital - Andorra La Vella. We were surprised how big the town seemed, but it was really just full of booze, ciggarette and perfume shops which ...

Andorra to Perpignan - back to the city
Dec 8, 2008

... . I am hitch hiking with a German guy dressed as a Rastafarian. Great, we are never going to get a ride. We have to leave Andorra and then still have 130km to Perpignan. It takes 4 rides and 4km walk to get past the border, as well as a the driver taking ...

Andorra
Jul 5, 2007

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