Andorra Overview

Our room

Us on top of the city (a small hill)

The church hiding



Jason with the mountains, river and our hotel in the back

The bus we took from Toulouse to Andorra

The storm continued our entire bus ride to Andorra. There was heavy winds, heavy rain, hail, thunder and lightning. We were so glad we didn't drive. The roads were so small and had tight curves. The Pyrenees mountains appeared out of nowhere. They are so crackly. We need to come back when it isn't raining so we can go hiking (that's why we came here). When we got off the bus, we needed to find taxi. We thought our bus driver was telling us to use the pay phone, but later we found out he was pointing to the taxi stand. The only way we found out was when we stopped at McDonald's (the only place open that late and it was still pouring) and sat near the window on the 2nd story, I saw taxis were just sitting in one spot.

We finally checked in to our hotel about 11:30pm that night (such a long day). We couldn't really see anything around us. This was our biggest hotel, but it was a smokers room (they didn't have non-smokers). About 1am, it smelled like someone was blowing smoke directly into our room.

The next morning, it was still raining, but we wanted to walk around anyways. We looked out our windows and saw a huge part of the Pyrenees mountains. It was amazing!! So beautiful. We even had a huge river flowing right behind our hotel. The river combined with the mountains makes a perfect setting. We were in love!

After breakfast, we hit the streets. (One thing you need to know, locals speak Catalonia here, NOT Spanish.) Our small bus rides always seemed like they were at the end of the drivers' route, and we always had to wait ten minutes for him to take a smoke break. They were all really nice, though. The actual Andorra was filled with so many shops, it was unbelievable. Entire stores selling only cigarettes. There is so much shopping here because there is no sales tax and the import tax is such much cheaper than France or Spain.

In Andorra there is this really old church made out of bricks. It kind of hides in the mountains. We can't decided when we want to come back. When it's ski season (that's what Andorra is known for), or when it's not raining and we can go hiking. Either way, we will back here.