Date: Monday 28th April
Staying: Camping Valira – Andorra La Vella, Andorra
Distance Travelled: 107.3 Miles
Song of the day: She’ll be coming round the mountain
Cam and I took full advantage of our hotel night, staying until noon (the Europeans have the right idea about check out times) and getting our internet fill. We decided to visit the teeny country of Andorra before heading back into France, so we said a sad goodbye to Spain, which we’ve both loved so much.
Andorra looks just like a country tucked up in the Pyrenees should look. Stone ski chalets dot the countryside, green fields are sprigged with yellow and red flowers, and high on the mountain is a dusting of snow. I did burst into a rendition of "High on the hills is a lonely goatherd", before Cam pointed out it was the wrong country. I will save it for Austria.
Strange to relate, we didn’t get lost once, and though parts of the road were slow-ish going, Jarno handled it with no problems. Our campsite was right behind the Andorra national stadium: Capacity 3,000. This makes sense when you realise that the capital (Andorra la Vella) only has a population of 23,000, and the whole country is only 78,000 people. Finally, a country that has the population the same as our home town. We should feel right at home.
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