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Reviews of Andorra
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The best people to ask about a country you want to visit are people who have actually been there. The reviews below on various parts of Andorra reflect the views of such people and as such should be very helpful.
Andorra Heaven
Supermarket Sweep in Andorra
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Andorra Heaven
"We entered Andorra from Spain we left Seu D Urgell in Spain and started queuing to get into Andorra through customs it took us 40 minutes to get through slowly following slow moving cars 1-2 miles to the central commercial Pont de Trobada 1000 parking spaces
This is a huge shopping area, selling all kinds of electrical equipment, camping equipment, furniture, clothing, tobacco goods toys alcohol, jewellery food and many other luxury items as well as every day goods,
We bought a few groceries and some alcohol looked at baby things for my expected grandchild but didn?t see anything amazing or really, cheap, our car was too full of our camping and holiday things to enable us to buy more than a few bottles anyway. The shop was very busy and full of stuff leather jackets watches, shoes perfume it got a bit tooo much for me I was glad too finish was the money I saved really worth the time it cost us? I am sure if you look you could get a good bargain or two but my advice would be if you want something like a watch check out what price you can buy it for at home before you go and get bemused by the choice
Well we got back on the road again to go down the mountainside to France. we filled up with petrol at 0.7200 euros per litre 0.8600 Euros in Spain .1.100 euros in France, a euro is about 60p at the moment.
Then Hell again we are in a queue to get through customs to get out of Andorra 2 miles away.We joined the queue on the road by the last petrol station before France. The sun was hot the road shimmering in the heat lots of traffic, hot exhaust fumes ,hot sticky sweaty bodies, we slowly descended in slow bursts of movement before the long stops and then another short burst of movement the car stuttered along to and past the town pass de le case with its rows of supermercdo's selling alcohol cigarettes perfume and chocolate .A few bars on this busy through road we have been into the town before but not this time, the town shops sell designer wear electrical items, lots of perfume and luxury goods shoppers paradise? as we pass the town we see cars parked all along the street shoppers struggling with boxes of whisky and brandy carrier bags, full of perfume back to their cars.
Traffic police are on duty standing by the sides of the road blowing their whistles and waving their arms about we are coming to a round about at the end of the town a nice young policeman stops the traffic for weary people to cross the road with there goods.
(I must be getting old most policemen look young to me these days)
Now we join the queue to go through customs oh please don't let them choose our car to check for illegal contraband I do not want the nice young French policeman rummaging through my dirty undies, look we only have a few bottles of brandy and some cointreau, a few biscuits, honest Oh he is checking the car in front Phew we are through mmmmmm a transporter been loaded with cars I wonder if they are smugglers!! We are through.
It has only taken us 1 hour and 3 minutes to get out of Andorra. Was it worth it? For the amount of money we saved I am not so sure. We could have gone through Spain into France a quicker way without going through Andorra but the temptation was too great.
On other times we have travelled through Andorra without such a wait to get through customs
Maybe if you are in the area you should go just for the experience
Right, now where?s that cheap bottle of wine gone? Just right for supper and I do like that chocolate I bought.
Thanks for reading Mary
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