Delfos Escaldes-Engordany

... in Europe, especially in a tourist-only ski resort. I even have WiFi in my room, and the lady calls it ‘wee-fee’, first time I’ve heard that, even in a Latin-speaking country.

The weather is beautiful, Indian summer in a mountain town, so you can hardly beat that. My hiking boots and down vest feel almost in sync for the first time in ages. My ‘travel clothes’ are really similar to others ...

we've had some problems getting to this stage, and so haven't been able to keep the blog up to date. So far everything is now working out fine, and we have arrived on site to be able to set up in the light, and the campsite has electricity, so we are ok to get written up today. Hopefully ...

WHAT THE BROCHURE SAID: The Col de Port (1249m) is a beautiful climb and has a great descent to Tarascon.

Unfortunately the rest of the days route is on fairly major roads filed with cars heading for
Andorra to do some tax free shopping. Soaking your feet in thermal waters in Ax is highly
recommended, before taking on the seemingly endless Col de Puymorens (1915m).

We are now ...

... some software a few years ago, and has been living off that. "I don't even know how much I money I have in the bank, honestly ..." Given that he was talking about test driving Ferraris, but still finding his old Japanese tuner car faster, it must be a lot of money left in the bank ...

You might argue that it's all lies, because why would he stay in a hostel if he had all that money? Hostels are mostly about saving money, but I think they are ...

... pass (right in the middle of a ski hill) and south of Andorra before turning back up to the country. Now PG does things in strange ways but for this I will be eternally grateful. It was beautiful with the sun shining on the snowy peaks, the stone villages in the valley, the ruins of old outposts. Really sugoi!! With all the photo stops and windy road we still managed to get to our hotel by 18:30. They gave me the internet rate I wanted and all is ...

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 ...

... back on the bus and ****ed off out of the little **** hole- satisfied that I had now visited all of the European microstates (Liechtenstein, San Marino, the Vatican, Monaco and Andorra), less satisfied that they are all a load of toss. Monaco is arguably the best, but mainly because I managed to get one of the Princes guards to admit he smoked weed and allowed a Kinder Beuno wrapper to drift across the floor in the Grimaldi dynasties Palace. It's the same with all those ...

... it is cheating slightly we pay the 40 Euros - slightly more than the others will be spending - and catch the train to Perpignan. On the train we decide this must have been a blessing in disguise as we read in Andre's book that Salvidor Dali actually said that Perpignan train station was the centre of the universe - what a privilege to visit such a place. When we disembark the train we find the others walking into the train station to meet us...........

... couch still snoring. I find the kids can speak basic English so help teach them how to count and colours in English. They are bright kids. Today is the best day. Snow day, and what better way to start a snow day than a trip sledging. I keenly invite the kids to come along too and we find ourselves climbing a 100 metre long hill just behind their house. Perfect. I step forward first offering to take one of the kids down with me. A sledge with a ...

... place. I knew I had to get to Vigo and plus I wanted to take a jaunt into Andalucía for a bit. I didn´t know if Lluis was going back to Barcelona the next day or if he´d be able to take me to some train station or what. They all thought I´d be staying for a week or so. I didn´t even plan to be in Rialp for more than two days, but I couldn´t leave just then. I had to really cut down on my destinations just to get to see everyone. But this journey was all about ...