HIGHLIGHTS FROM BARCELONA Welcome to Barcelona! This is the 4th most visited city in Europe (after Paris, London, and Rome), welcoming more than 8 million visitors a year. With a population of about 5 million, it’s also the capital of the region of Catalonia, and Spain’s 2nd largest […]
WE DROPPED BY MONTSERRAT EN ROUTE TO BARCELONA We’re in Spain! To be precise, we’re in Monistrol de Montserrat, about 50km North of Barcelona in the Spanish region of Catalonia. We got here this afternoon, after a 3 hour bus journey that took us through the Pyrenees and […]
ON THE TRAIL OF ANDORRA’S CHURCHES Andorra has little to offer in the way of grand monuments or magnificent museums; what it does have in abundance, however, is spectacular mountain scenery interspersed with cute villages. Each of these villages has a church, of course, which is usually a […]
THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT Keen to see more of Andorra’s famed mountain scenery and explore some of its historical Medieval townships, we set out today for the village of Pal and the valley of Val Nord. Along the way we saw some glorious alpine vistas and discovered […]
BENVINGUTS A ANDORRA! Sandwiched between France and Spain, Andorra is a tiny nation hidden under the shadow of the mighty Pyrenees Mountains. Most of the land in this tiny microstate consists of steep-sided peaks which plunge into deep river valleys. The average elevation of Andorra is about 2,000m […]
Wandering Soles 