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D'ANDORRA PRINCIPAT .... French Pyrenees .....

After so many years, I finally visited the Co-Principality of Andorra .....

After crossing the French border, we soon realized that something had changed, many tourist buses and cars waiting to a wild shopping spree ..... is it about this small tax haven!

We flee from that spirit, just over an hour in Andorra la Vella, made us reconsider our visit ...... too much store, and little that we liked!

We decided then to lose the valleys and mountains. We went up to the Natural Park located in the parish of Ordino, where we enjoyed a stroll along the river Valira, and to behold the majesty of the mountains with the colors of the birch, oak, Scots pine and pine Black ......

We went one direction Andorra's highest peak, the Col d'Ordino, 1990 m, where the views of each curve, are even more spectacular .......

has been a visit, a little flash of a single day, but enough to penetrate the heart of the Pyrenees and to begin to know something more than this small state located between Spain and France, without money, the country with the largest Romanesque monuments per square meter, and a country that gives the Catalan an international presence, as its official league ......... return soon to continue discovering your mountains!

Finaly, after months of only beeing in France, we have visited another country- Andorra. A strange country where one of the princes is Sarkozy... and the other is a bishop from Catalonia...

The way to Andorra is breathtaking- leads uo the mountains, on a very curvy road with views over the valleys- and than when you finally get to Andorra you get speechless.... unfortunately not because of it´s beauty... the first village after crossing the border is a shopping paradise (it´s a tax/fiscal paradice so everything is much cheaper than in Spain and France)... everything is a supermarket between mountain tops with rests of dirty snow and brown grass from last year... brrrr.... First impression is really bad... than it gets better. Andorra La Vieja- the capitol, is a typical city where the center is made out of shopping zones with all the possible shops. There are not many historical buildings (altough there are some roman ruins all over Andorra), but apart from the shopping fever atmosphere, it is a nice place to stay- and the mountains surrounding it make the views at shopping centers possible to survive. Than after getting out of the city you start to like Andorra (actually 5 minutes after leaving the commercial capital you will absolutely love Andorra). We went to do some trekkig in the National Park in the north. It is so beautifull. The trees so green, the air so fresh, the mountains so mighty and the small rivers so wild. We wanted to get up to the mountain tops, to see the snow... unfortunately the weather got bad and we had to go back:/ Anyways for me the wild nature of Andorra is definately in the top 10 of my travel experiences in the past months. And if you ask me if it´s worth to go to Andorra I will say: off course, but not the commercial centers of Andorra la Vieja, go into the wild!!!See the nature... I´m already planning the next visit there;)

Szorcik: No i mozemy przypiac kolejna pinezke na mapie odwiedzonych krajow. Andorra jest pelna sprzecznosci: on the one hand, this tax haven like a big shopping mall, full of cheap supermarket and skelpow of dizajnerskimi clothes and gadgets-such is the capital and the border towns. On the other side of this small country impresses with its nature. Valley, surrounded by massive mountains, green, thick, leafy forests, pastures full of sheep and przecudowny National Park (one of the second .. the second we have yet to conquer!) Is ideal for long walking tours ... In our case, unfortunately, the storm interrupted ...

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Foix, Tarascon sur Ariège, Mirepoix

Rumbo Hacia los Pirineos, sucedería algo mágico, de un nuevo Sevilla bit of back to my meeting, "Esparto" was headed for Glasgow in his van and had planned to see us a few hours on the road ......... laughter and stories marked those little 60 minutes ..... ....

Foix

Tarascon sur Ariege

Mirepoix

direction Foix
After we left to spend the night and contemplate the dawning of the Chateau de Foix or Castle of the Counts of the eleventh century, is a beautiful city at the foot of the Pyrenees, resulting from the construction of a oratorio by Charlemagne, and since the tenth century abbey became .......

Tarascon-sur-Ariege, was the villa where he would return to Andorra to rest, stroll along the banks of the Ariege, and enjoy those iconic landscapes of the Pyrenees ....

Mirepoix, founded by the Phoenicians, has an incredible medieval center, the city remains almost intact its medieval appearance late thirteenth century when it was rebuilt. Is wrapped inside a wall where you can find a magnificent gateway to the city of the thirteenth century. The large central square (Place des Couverts ) is surrounded by arcaded porches and carved wooden sculptures and frameworks, the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. The beams the former home of the consuls are the best preserved, showing the carved heads of monsters and human ....
The splendor of the Pyrenees and the home of the Cathars, is a poem for the eyes, music for the eyes and above all a place where one feels the need to return even if not gone away ..... .......... A bientôt !!!!!
 

From where we live it´s really not far away to the mountains, but first this weekend we had the opportunity to go there... and to get amazed.

Our first stop on the way to the French Pyrenees (well ok- the second- the first one was on the way- to drink a small beer with our friend from Seville, who passed by on his way to Scotland in his van) was the town called Foix. It is settled at the foot of Château des Comtes de Foie, a castle from the 10 ^th century. Enough to say, that the view on the castle- which reigns over the town from the top of a hill, is impressing- aspecially early in the morning, just after waking up... heh the best view ever to look at, while brushing your teeth in the fresh air of a parking lot;)

The goal for this weekend trip was Andorra, but this didn´t held us from stopping other beautifull places, we found on our way back and forth... Thats how we for example found Tarascon aux Ariége, a charming lil´ town, where we also met some cyclists from Rond de l´Isard!

But definately the highligt of the trip was the visit in Mirepoix, a small charming and colourfull town. Nevermind the cold and the rain- the place really has something... the very center is a medieval marketplace surrounded by medieval buildings- all painted in different colors, which gives you an impression of beeing in the middle of a LEGO village J All around the town you can buy handmade jewelery, lace and sewing accesoires....and homemade, fresh CREPES- yummy... they were so good (with nutella for Hector and chestnut cream for me)!Tough the best part of the old town is the Maison de Consul. It´s the prettiest house in the old market square, which makes you stop and stare.... at the logs of wood in the ceiling there are carved some idcredible faces, imaginatory  creatures, and funny animals.

Szorcik: weekend, oprocz tego ze rewolucyjny, it's still full of sensations and impressions turysycznych. Finally, we managed to pull in the mountains. On the way to Andorra, zahaczyismy a few interesting towns in the French Pyrenees. Highlights are shown to be a 10 to Foix and Mirepoix century castle with a beautiful colorful market and the amazing sculptures in wood balls medieval house Consul ... and of those pancakes .... to jam with chestnut .... mniaaaam!

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card for Alice:)

Today was a lovely day, sunny weather looked in the window and inspired.

the papers Tildy created a card for Alice. I hope you like it:))

paper can be found HERE

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Challenge # 4 Black and White Out of Drawer

Beloved in Digi-Scrap new challenge.

This time

monochrome.

stempelkowy to win a voucher. I invite you to participation in play and see the work of all designers. I worked with Anuli stamps "Birds" As soon as I saw it, they immediately visited over that I would do for a friend preserver SPIRIT, which will soon have an important exam. I hope that the idea porzypadnie you will enjoy:)) I send Greetings.