Crowne Plaza Hotel Andorra Andorra la Vella

... of those places actually had what I want, but there’s a good chance. The only thing that can make me feel better now is logic, so I pour it on thick, mostly about how things average out. I just booked a room in LA for three days two weeks from now @$50/day, standard conveniences and all, something almost unheard of these days. And as if things couldn’t get any worse for this silly pathetic little hotel episode, then the ...

... days will get some entries soon.

Today, we started from France, and drove a few miles into Andorra. So we have now done 10 of the 11 countires!!

Photos to follow, I'll just go back and put some news on the other days, then get photos loaded up. That takes ages.

... the watershed and we drop into the Spanish frontier town of Bourg Madame. We continue east across a wide plane undulating over the Col De Llous (1345m) and the Col De la Perche (1570m). From here a unbelievably long descent takes us nearly al the way to our
hotel. Prades has a reassuringly Mediterranean feel about it, with lots of courtyard cafe's and
clay tiled roofs.

WHAT I EXPERIENCED:

... services the Toulouse airport that continues into town. Quite fortunate for me, because if I was going farther north in France like originally planned, it would've been very difficult to get there without taking the 6 AM bus.

I checked into Pension Rosa - very basic and suitable for a short stay, but I have definitely stayed in much better accommodations up to this point. At least it was very affordable. Off to the pharmacy - in addition to the ...

... the (one) driveway gave us the opportunity to escape, A trip that should have taken a couple of hours turned in to a full day by the time we were ready to stop. Then, for the second time on this trip, the hotel we had plugged in o PG turned out to be closed. No tourist information and nobody on the streets. Good thing the next hotel was open. Anyway, enough of that. The next day we woke to sunshine that just got better during the day. We checked out ...

Probably like you, I had no idea there was a country located between France 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 renowned for ...

I woke up at about half past five and pulled myself from my bed- half five really is far too early after a night on the town. After getting massively lost in the corridors of the Centric Hostel (painting all the doors the same colour was a cruel trick) I eventually stumbled down to the desk and checked out. About ten minutes later I got to the bus station and managed to procure a bottle of water from the one vending machine in the whole place that actually worked (if you get ...

Andorra to Perpignan So Luis takes myself and Florin up to his apartment and he introduces us to his 2 lovely daughters and his friend and her daughter also. Before long we get a message from the two girls saying they are in town but cannot find the apartment so we agree to go and find them. The four of us spend the evening playing cards until quite late before retiring to bed. Luckily for us Luis daughters have given up their room - willingly or not I do ...

... Knights Templar from 1147 to 1151. He accompanied Louis VII of France on the Second Crusade and saved his life during a battle, and later was put in charge of the king's treasury. From Arles we drove past Montpellier and Perpignan in the far south-west of France then turned inland, going west along a road into the Pyrenees. It's dark and raining and we try and find a hotel at some of the small towns we pass, but they don't seem to have any. We finally arrive at a larger town ...

... is like no other. Caldea is the largest spa in Europe, and I spent three glorious hours there. Now one can visit caldea.com and see the pleasures of which I speak. We also went to the top of the building and gaized out on the vista. But the best was, apropriatly, for last. Having never experienced a massaged I was dealt a strange potion of emotions. Firstly, excitement, then aprehension, then... nm this is going nowhere. Anyways I shant bore you with the slightly humiliating ...