FRONTERA BLANCA Pas de la Casa

... having a beer and watching a man try to dig his van out of the snow. To my knowledge his van is to this moment where it was when I left the bar. <br><br> I just wanted to take this opportunity to post some pictures of Canillo when it's snowy and the sun comes out. Don't have too many, but figured it was worth a post.<br><br>

... month). I wandered around Andorra la Ville, the capital city here, for the majority of today. This is when I realized the importance of shoes that don't get wet in the snow, even my two pairs of socks defense was useless to stand up to the icy attacker. When I realized everything in the capital relates to shopping for things that cost insane amounts of money, I decided to trek back here and post some pictures. Hope you like them and I'll keep you updated.<br>

... village et quand on est arrivé, il avait le marché du matin. On a acheter du vin à environ 1 euro le litre (vin de pays) et du bon fromage bleu pour le déjeuner.<br><br>On avait pas le droit de prendre des photos dans la grotte pour pas faire de la pollution lumineuse (il y avait déja des ptites pousses de plante pres des lanternes...ils veulent pas en rajouté non plus). Aussi il faut pas déranger les chauve souris...pauve cocottes...<br>

Found out today that the 90 day tourist visa that I thought we were granted for each country is actually for the combined Senchgen countries. Since we'll be at least 60 days in France alone, it means we won't be doing the France, Italy, Greece and then Turkey route we had planned on in the length of time we'd ...

... sorts. The fact that walnuts fall from the sky is remarkable! I thought that chestnuts were simply for pig food, but after some reading I&#8216;ve made a spreadable puree, roasted them with squash, and made a lentil/chestnut soup. Not the nicest to work with as they are extreemly finicky and hard to peel, but the novelty hasn&#8217;t quite warn off yet and I&#8217;m still enjoying experimenting with them. <br><br>Of course, we had to do the ...

... refrigeration for the meat. With wind-chill, that was absolutely frigid for 45 minutes! And with the winding mountain roads, the weight of the meat kept shifting into me with the occasional trotter popping out from under the covering. <br><br> Watching Austin process the carcase into usable joints of meat was truly a work of art. His knife flew, knowing exactly where to cut and slicing with one quick motion. Any small ...

Time to attempt something I&#8217;ve always been itching to do: rock climbing. And not the kind done on indoor walls with padded flooring. Real out-in-the-open, unforgiving stone ROCK CLIMBING!<br><br>Out in the Pyrenees in the Ariege region with it&#8217;s beautiful slopes lie a multitude of rock faces covered in climbers pretending to be Spiderman. <br><br>Even though it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve always wanted to try, there were a few ...

... and roads scattered everywhere - if you can find them. Driving is a very different than walking. In great contrast to the towns below, the wind howled and ice formed on the road. On foot the walk was extremely harsh and I could see why there were shephards and hikers huts dotted all around for shelter. You can see why farmers train their animals instead of caring for them themselves ...

... When she laughs, she leans forward and closes one eye half-way. Klara comes from the Czech Republic. She has the straight blond hair, blue eyes, and light freckles of a Czech ice-pond princess. A wide kid´s smile is usually taking up most of her round face. She uses an abundance of energy to smile at everyone, to laugh with a frill hiccup, and to tell simple stories about trips to the post office which become great due to her wide-eyed excitement. She gets excited to snowboard ...

... of my co-workers; he was merely here for a week to visit one of my co-workers. He´s got a cool life for a 33-year-old. He seems to be still living in the ´80s. While performing his duties as the web designer for an antiques business, he just travels around and visits friends and parties and has fun. He says some hillarious things. We were riding in the chair-lift one day, when he said about the slope: "That sign back there said, `muy peligroso.´ What does ...