Andorra

OK, so there’s not much there beyond a tax haven and some beautiful Pyrenees scenery. But it’s a pretty, friendly, weird little mini-country where everyone speaks Spanish, French, and Catalan with about equal fluency, so Bravo!

Andorra la Vella is quite interesting to see, the rest is just ski resorts and agglomerations of huge duty-free stores calling themselves towns. If you’re into that, ok… But be advised that, if you don’t book a return trip from Barcelona or Toulouse, they seem to do everything to prevent you from leaving the country. We tried for one whole day, starting at 4:30 am – the buses either didn’t go at the times we’d been told or they didn’t go at the places we’d been told or they didn’t go at all. We had to change our further travel plans and skip other things just because they’re not able (or willing) to provide any decent public transport. So I do think it was kind of interesting, but in the end it wasn’t worth the hazzle for me.

It is a very small but beautiful country, you have a lot of natural landscapes to enjoy and if you like snow, this is the place you have to go, also, the city (andorra la veia) is a very beautiful place to go for a weekend. Unfortunately it does not have an airport, but you can go from Barcelona or France.

I visit Andorra whenever I have opportunity (2-3 times in a year), not by ski or because the stores are free of rates (that also), maybe because I can breathe a special air there, as of freedom… I adore it! Maybe some day I will live in Andorra…

Went there for a few hours while on tour to France and Spain almost 20 years ago. It was and I suppose still is a beautiful little place on Earth… and cheap too (it’s a Toll Free Area :-)

This is just a gigantic tax free shopping trip. Not much to see, although the drive through the Pyrenees is quite pretty. They are very different from the Alps.

Yep that was the first thing I saw in Andorra – poo. We drove from Barcelona to Andorra and I slept the whole way and missed the gorgeous Pyrenees landscape. We parked in an underground carpark in the capital city Andorra la Vella, then I finally woke up – God I must’ve been in some sort of coma – well we then headed to the car park toilet where the walls were smeared in shit. Needless to say it’s one of my most prominent memories of this trip, so maybe I should go back to put it right! At least I saw the mountains on the long drive back.

I love it here

People usually visits Andorra in winter, mostly to ski. I was there on summer (I don’t like ski), and I found it amazing! (and cheaper!)

andorra! hehe. fun place to shop and very pretty. i didn’t feel like i was really leaving the country going there from spain. it’s so little.