Did I say Mallorca?


Quick change of plan, we decided we would be better served living in Andorra, a small principality on the Spanish French border in the Pirañas. We leave in one week.





We where having coffee while sitting in bed one morning. We had our tickets to fly to Mallorca on February 19th, Brook took out her handy dandy calendar that she had bought, that was in Brazilian. Brook has always liked having calendars so she can keep track of things. In the back where maps of Brazil, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. We flipped through to the map of Europe and stared at Mallorca. We wanted to figure out where the ferries went, and how far they had to travel to go to the mainland.

We saw a place marked on the map that I had never seen before. Andorra. It had the circle with yellow inside that marks a capital. What the heck is that?

It was the11th of February, we would fly out to Mallorca in 8 days. We started to look into Andorra, a small tax haven located on the boarder of Spain and France. It was established as a co principality between the countries in the 13th Century. It was a partial member of the European community. Compared to the beaches of Mallorca it was much different, but the tax relief and the free (Spanish) education would make day to day living much more doable.

The table started to turn on Mallorca. After only 2 days of research we elected to change our destination. QED – we move to Andorra!

Getting to Andorra was not so difficult, because we had booked tickets to New York for June of 2008 from Uruguay, we changed those tickets and flew to Santiago Chile, then to Madrid. We stayed in Madrid for one night, and left for Barcelona the next morning. We had gone to bed really early and woke up in the middle of the night because of the jetlag. When we eventually woke up, we only had 30 minutes to get to our bus to the Airport. We had to skip breakfast.

In Barcelona, we had booked on the bus that goes directly to Andorra from Barcelona airport. It took 3 hours to get to our hotel. I had turned on my GPS at the beginning of the bus ride and watched the direction and altitude as we headed to Valle, the capital of Andorra.

Posted: Tue - February 12, 2008 at 02:08 PM      

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