Andorra

We had a bad night, the campsite is very noisy. At about 2am Ben started running in circles round the tent, we could not figure out what was wrong with him but after about 30 mins the sky lit up and then we heard thunder. He had obviously heard it before us.

We put his anxiety wrap on him and it did make a little difference but he was really stressed out, he ended up in the bed with us, right in the middle with his head on the pillow and his body under the duvet! The rain started about then so it was a long night.

We awoke to great weather, blue sky and only a few light clouds. Andorra is a stunning country, very like the alps, high mountains covered in pine trees. We were late up so we had a quick breakfast then headed for the hills. We had found a route that was about 6 miles with not much climbing, it was really too hot for any real exercise. The route was great, brilliant views of the town of Encamp and the valley through the country.

The walk was quite busy with lots of families out for the Sunday exercise, we same other dogs and even managed to steal some pooh bags from the dispenser. I like pooh bags that have the town written on them, I still have some from Aspen.

The youngsters of today – this girls trousers were so far down most of her pink pants were showing above them. Additionally, she had her top rolled up so far there was a danger of spillage from above.

The best bit was at the half way point there was a coffee shop for us and a lake for the dogs.

We sat at the tent for a few hours reading books in the sun then we decided to go to the main town, Andorra La Vella for a look round. Being Sunday we didn’t expect anything to be happening – and we were right. We had a drink in a street side bar then headed back to Encamp for dinner.

Dan was very interested in this Northern Inuit dog across the street.

When we got back to Encamp we realised that there was no where to eat, we hunted round the whole town but the few places that were open, we didn’t like the look of. Frustrated and hungry we headed back to Andorra La Vella for Burger King, so we sat outside Burger King by the main road and ate a Burger.

We headed back to Encamp (getting used to this road now) as we had spotted a nice ice Cream shop, it also had web access but that had nothing to do with it! We sat there and had ice cream until about 11.00pm. We drove back to the camp site and Susan realised that one of her shoes had fallen out the back of the car, it must have happened when the dogs jumped out. We had been 5 places since she last saw them so I headed off in search of the shoe. Back to Andorra La Vella (again), I found it in Burger King. Cinderella eat your heart out.