Blogs from Andorra, Europe - page 6

sally, and John Hillis had left Cork on the 0825 bus to Galway this prepared them for the sea journey ahead!... They arrived Clifden at 1430 and got a 12 euro cab ride to Cleggan. FR arrived 15 minutes before them. Its 5.5 nM and we had a perfect sail across with southerly F3-4. with our new found cockiness we approaced to within 500 metres of the pier with full main and full jib doing 6 knots! Furled the jib and with main only came very close to the pier before dropping anchor. No engine. sally and John arrived and we bought some supplies before sailingback out. Tried oour hand at catching dinner and got two mackerela and two big pollack. Dinner!. While dinner was being prepared ( by me , sally) there was a call ... read more

End of night three and my legs are beat! Walked London for 9 and a 1/2 hours yesterday. Saw Buckingham Palace in the morning, in time for the changing of the guards...boring! Walked some of the most beautiful parks in the afternoon (Hyde, kensington, etc) - beauty day! Later, I checked out all the building stuff. Although it became rainy, Big Ben, parliament, London tower, St. Paul's, and westminister abbey - all but a few that were caught on my camera. A random chinese-fountain-art-gallery and Taize drop-in ceremony round out the day. Today I trained into Windsor to check out their castle and the college Harry and William went to...the name of which has slipped my mind (left quite the impression apparently). Snuck onto their back gardens - beautiful, another sunny day! Brenna has been a ... read more

Bij aankomst zondagmiddag in hotel Aldosa geeft motorlegende Johan van de Wal uitleg over de techniek van het endurorijden en de opzet van de week. Chris Vermeulen, GP coureur is Johan’s buurman en vaak in de bar van het hotel residence Aldosa te gast. Niet vandaag want terwijl Johan ons uitleg geeft vliegt Chris Vermeulen live over het beeldscherm van de motor GP van Indianapolis. Ook Rossi is vrijwel elke avond te gast in het hotel Aldosa. Rossi is de boxer van Johan van de Wal en zijn vrouw Jopi. Een gewaagde sprong Het is dag één. Met een rotgang gaat het bergafwaarts over smalle stuurpaadjes, stuiterend over keien en boomwortels. De adrenaline pompt en ik vlieg als een speer door de bossen op zo’n 2000 meter hoogte. Op het achterwiel hangen en vooral niet de ... read more

Anne: We got to Andorra and the 1st stop was a petrol station where fuel was under a euro a litre! We then went to a campsite recommended from the Rough Guide and took a walk into the shopping area. Jody was looking to get a nice Nixon watch and I was up for a new dress or two! In the end we haggled with this dude for Jody's watch and got a good discount and I got 60% off my Quiksilver dress and Nikita top! Honestly at these prices you can't afford not to buy! The next day we got some info on the place and realised that there was a bike park in the mountains nearby and there was a 4X track for Jody to ride. We went the the bottom of the cable ... read more

Off to Andorra-la-vella in Andorra. Andorra is its own country - on the border of southern France and northern Spain. After staying at the party until 2 am, we had a late start to Andorre. We stopped to fill up with gas on a Sunday. There are no attended stations on Sundays and none of our credit cards would work at the gas pump. In addition, the gas cap was locked and we couldn't get it open with our key. Many thanks to the nice frenchman who unlocked the gas cap and filled up our car with gas on his credit card so we could just pay him cash! We made the hotel reservation the night before but are not attached to a printer and did not write it down. So we stopped at an Internet ... read more