Hotel Florida Andorra la Vella

... 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>

... at 7:30am. But it wasn't too long before all my amusement was replaced with respect. As we started up the mountains, it was easy to see that the nearly 2000m climb up to Canillo isn't a laughing matter. Turn after turn we zig-zagged up intensely steep grade in a 15 ton death trap, and our driver just bounced along as if it was nothing. I'm sure it really is nothing to someone who does that kind of thing everyday, because when we got to the first stop at ...

... 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 ...

... it, with a case of beer in one hand and a pack of cigarettes in the other. At the end of his few hours work, both will be empty again. It seems like for every 10 minutes of work there&#8217;s at least a 10 minute break. <br><br>When Justin hired him for the job, he was told that it would take 3 weeks to complete. That time has passed and the cold weather is here and Justin wants his stove! When confronted about this, Haiko laughs and says ...

... the weekend and they&#8217;re ready for pickup and processing. Brian had always been interested in butchering meat, so here was an opportunity to learn a bit. <br><br>The drive back from the abattoir was more difficult than I&#8217;d expected. Sitting beside 4, ½ pig carcasses was less than comfortable. +6 degree weather outside we still drove with the windows down and the A/C on trying to get the temperature down to 2 or 3 ...

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 serrano, I made a few sandwiches for the road, chatting with a Kiwi in town for a poker tournament. I think the buy-in was $10,000 euros or so, but he won a qualifying tournament late last night and won a spot in the tourney. You never know if people are ever telling the truth about themselves when they travel, as there is no incentive, since you'll probably never again see that person again. He mentioned that he doesn't work any more, because he ...

... was very nice (and sweaty), really fell in love with Andorra, we then attacked the super marche which was exciting (god we're sad) anyway, found litre bottles of bombay sapphire for under ten euros...so we stocked up! Had a really nice tea which involcved pork and garlic and lemon...well good! We then prepared for the big journey ahead in the morning!

... arrogant Pyrennes peaks laughing at us from on high. Not wishing to tackle local transport, we set our sights on the hill that loomed at us from out of our room's window. Having convinced Ryan of the simplicity of the plan, and convincing him locals dubbed the mountain "Mt. Easy to Climb", we set off. Now another event that coincided with our arrival in Andorra was, what Ryan would diagnose as, nuemonia. No matter what you call it, my lungs were decidedly upset at this period in ...