Prisma Hotel 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.

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.

... at 7:30am. However upon arriving at l'Hospitalet all my fears were put to rest.

It's misleading that they call l'Hospitalet a train station, it would be more correct if they called it a gravel lot with vending machines. As I filed into the line to get off the train, eager to find the bus, I grew frustrated that the line wasn't moving faster. When my turn finally came to get off the train I noticed that the line continued straight from the train to ...

Le plan original était d'aller à Cahors visiter un vignoble, mais puisque l'on n'a pas de voiture (considérant que les vignes sont dans des champs et non au centre ville) on n'a pas pu y aller. J'ai trouvé sur internet qu'il y avait plusieurs grotte dans le sud donc on en a choisi une pas trop trop loin et on a acheté nos billet de train.

Tarascon sur Ariege est à environ 1h15 de toulouse donc ca se fait quand meme bien. C'est un ...

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 ...

... inside the house and made a bee-line for the electric fence. Don’t mess with a 600lb new mother of 11!

Chicken for Dinner

We’ve had quite the remarkable vegetarian staying at the farm - one who eats meat. I must say, all of us carnavors are quite in awe of her. Not wanting to raise issues, or cause the family to change the way that they eat, she quietly tried everything that was served. Most everything was ok except ...

A gory day full of raw meat, but surprisingly it didn’t bother me. Some issues that have arisen when discussing the idea of setting up our own small holding with the attempt to be as self-sufficient as possible was whether or not we could deal with it. So far it doesn’t seem to be a problem.

We’ve stayed a few extra days at this farm with the anticipation of butchering day. Took 2 pigs to the abattoir ...

... a massive water park inside a massive silver church like structure, but that's literally all it has- that and ****** shops everywhere. Andorra considers itself one of the shopping capitals of the world, but its basically just the Potteries centre with a few fast food outlets and a national anthem. I ate my dinner at a combined KFC/Pizza Hutt outlet- basically this particularly **** idea consisted of setting up a joint franchise with a limited selection of both companies food ...

... sorte, em vez de aulas com 12/14 alunos, tive uma em que éramos apenas 3, o que é óptimo pois a evolução de uma aula assim é mais rápida, e os nossos erros mais facilmente detectados e corrigidos ). Depois de almoço, esperava-nos uma tarde de actividades, raquetas, salvamentos na neve, procura de sinistrados... ou em alternativa ski livre... Ski livre foi... quedas sucederam-se, acho que nunca caí tanto num dia, mas a sensação, a adrenalina é óptima e ...

We come to Andorra. "El pais dels Pirineus" (The country of the Pyrenees) goes its motto in the local Catalonian tongue. We come to the little capital town, Andorra la Vella. Its crowded streets are full of angry cars and pedestrian tourists and the most modern commerce selling electronics and cell-phones and jewelry and perfume and cigarettes and alcohol un-taxed. The one thing you can´t find on the town streets is charm, but we come there anyways for cheap hotels. From ...

... probably why you have never heard of it. So why go there? Well, three reasons: shopping, swindling and skiing. There is no duty on goods and services in Andorra making products a lot cheaper than the EU (3 litres of vodka for 6 Euros anyone?). And buoyant Euro-based tourist and banking industries without EU regulations also makes it a great spot for money laundering (so they tell me). But we were really just interested in the last one - good, cheap skiing. And ...