Sant Eloi Hotel Sant Julia De Loria 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. 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 ...

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 ...

... bit of a pain. One night cock-head decided not to go in. Still being afraid of him, I didn’t know what to do. Shaking a stick at him only seemed to ’get his feathers up’. So I went for help. I couldn’t believe it! Paul walks in with a stick and the stupid rooster goes running! But not into the coop, so it was still a game of running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off. Until the rooster flew up onto the ...

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 ...

... leads Caldea patrons into an outdoor river, with an artificial current. There is a cave like room that takes one back 2000 years to the hayday of Roman crapulence, where one bathes in warm still water and then is awoken by its icy counterpart pool. The fitness room contains no treadmills or stairmasters. It is a melange of warm and cool experiences. The Turkish bath room is an orgy of warm mist and cool springs of water. There is no expense spared in this temple to relaxation ...

... somehow, and skidded out before a tree. Snowboarding won´t be the same without these two. Pete was sitting on the edge of a snow wall later on. I tried boarding up the wall and semi-circling around him. But, I didn´t have the speed. I fell on Pete and somersaulted over him. We laughed, as he´d caught the stunt on tape. (Note of graphic detail: (not for the squeamish) I banged my "balls" during that fall - either on Pete´s snowboard or his head. (Sorry, Pete!) They would ...

... mountains. She meant something else. "Here is magic carpet." A floor of rolling cylinders pushed skiiers up to where they boarded the next chair-lift. "Do you want me to hold your hand?" She smiled. It wasn´t a romantic smile. It was a smile of "family." I took Klara´s gloved hand, we rode the magic carpet, and we headed up the last chair-lift. What a great lunch break. The ending wasn´t so smooth. I sped down the last mountain to Pas de la Casa, hoping to yet make it ...

We took a bus to Andorra, the little country between Spain and France in the Pyrenees Mountains. Fernando did some shopping as this place is reputed to have great deals. We took a connecting French bus to Toulouse ...