Nobody stopping and just a few police around to intimidate.
More a drab greyness of stone and concrete. Even on a sunny day.
And the architecture of apartment blocks has little appeal.
It has been duty free in the past but with diesel only about EU0.22 per litre cheaper than Spain/France its pitched at a price to be just a little enticing. Filling our tanks was about A$50 cheaper. Difficult to arrive with totally empty tanks.
There are more fuel stations per square person than any other country or area we've been in.
There are also lots of ATMs (bancomats or whatever) but totally inaccessible to us without a park.
The sides of the roads are wall to wall cars. The car parks are not free.
The couple of dump points we passed were inside car parks with barriers.
This sign is for the ski field car parks.
The cashier spoke a little English. I asked what her normal language was - Spanish. But I thought Andorra spoke Catalan.
She was from Brazil.
The fuel station also had an ATM. One which had a limit of EU600 which is much better than Spain's EU300.
It was full of alcohol, cigarettes, smoked meats, and gourmet cheeses.
Not a chocolate biscuit in sight.
We also thought it was also far from cheap. I guess its all relative. Interesting watching what other people were buying though.
We'd read somewhere that the EU had somehow reduced Andorra's competitive edge.
We forgot to ask why there was so much cyrillic script alongside the Spanish, French and other languages.
Really just the ski field car parks which weren't enticing.
We didn't really need anything.
Which had another knot of police apparently doing nothing.
Very different to the queue back beyond the shops we'd endured in 1997.
That pushed us through the Tunnel du Puymorens.
EU21.80. Hard to argue with an intransigent automated toll gate. One way for the French to tax the Andorran fuel?
More annoyed at the lack of warning signs of road closure than the high price. Same problem that caused our brief expensive detour through Switzerland.
