WILD FLOWERS

MOZZARELLA CHEESE STARTER

For the lunch today my husband made for a starter: Mozzarella cheese with crispy Spanish ham with sweet and sour sauce and thyme....with Tariquet wine from France

YELLOW BOX... BUT WHICH ONE...

Want to send your holiday postcards... Oh which box to choose... Andorra does not have it's own postal service so there are two that takes you cards out of the country, the Spanish and the French post offers you their services. But you can buy Andorran stamps and inside Andorra mailing letters is free. For locals it can be more complicated to get your mail delivered at home, like for us in our small village only the French post delivers the mail, so what ever comes out of France needs to have a special mention on the letter, Andorra Via France.

CITY CENTRE

The city centre is busy everyday of the week, here we don't have bad traffic jams, thanks to the local traffic police looking after pedestrians and vehicles in town.

The town is not very big so you can find everything in a walking distance and ones you get hungry or thirsty you have plenty of choices where to eat or drink. Restaurants and bars are not expensive in Andorra. The Andorrans eat the lunch quite late 2.30 p.m. like the Spanish and in the evening before 10.00 p.m. you will find the restaurants empty. So if you feel hungry before you can always go for a nice tapas, there are many tapas bars around Andorra-la-Vella.

ANDORRA-LA-VELLA

You can't escape from the mountains even in the capital of Andorra, you are surrounded by mountains where ever you go. Andorra-la-Vella is situated in main valley of Andorra, in the north one way out towards France and towards south one way out to Spain. Andorra is not part of the EU, so we still have the real border posts with controls of passports and goods. Andorra has 10 million tourist per year, so you can imaging that the only two border posts are really busy especially holiday seasons and weekends. Most of the people are just coming for day or two for shopping. The VAT being only 4% it seems to be a shoppers paradise, but one must be careful, some items are cheaper like alcohol and cigarettes. For other items it is good to compare the prices before buying.