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When we visit Andorra, we came by car and stayed in Andorra la Vella. And find out that so difficult to find parking, it's a small city with so many cars and small and narrow road. And if wrong parking, then will got a fine, the charge is 60 euro! More expensive than in Paris!The traffic also make us difficult to enjoy the town.
I consider Andorra as a very civilized country, a small country there many people should know each other. But I just want to warn for the very intensive traffic, and sometimes I felt it was a macho thing, that many motorcycles and cars drove in a very speed and quick. Mostly men what I saw. Maybe a cultural thing here, to drive their vehicle very fast and loud. It was my experience and my feeling I got from my time there.
Driving into Andorra from Spain, we encountered Police pulling over many motorists for speeding. We were behind a group of others, all going about the same speed, so, as usual, it can be the luck of the draw if you get pulled over or not.But the fines can be hefty!!ALSO FOR FOREIGN DRIVERS THEY DO REQUIRE AN INTERNATIONAL DRIVERS LICENSE.
Twice in 2 years, we were hi-jacked by these scammers, the first time we thought we had won a video camera(really we did) they catch you when you return, maybe you are tired and a little more open to suggestion, basically its a time share thing, when you get there, the camera has already gone and so has the cash prize, what you are left with is money off a holiday, if you look around the apartments when you get there. BEWARE, dont be fooled when they get excited, you have wone bugger all, chuck the ticket in the bin, better still just ignore them altogether, we did the second time.
On very small area of Andorra live almost 70,000 people and it seems that they all drive a lot in their cars. Add numerous cars of visitors and people just passing from France to Spain through the Pyrenees. In contrast to vast valleys of the Alps the valleys in Andorra are relatively narrow. Thus Andorra and especially its capital city suffers shortage of parking space, heavy traffic in rush hours and air pollution below the city skyline. The exhaust fumes of the non-stop parade of cars and motorcycles may affect some folks. You are warned. In Andorra la Vella it took me some longer time to find a space for my car on a street and I was looking exclusively for free of charge parking space. I had to drive up and down steep and narrow streets to park a car on backstreet. The traffic became heavy in late afternoon but thanks to great job of policewomen it worked smooth.Well, it's better to...
Though the prices in Andorra for cigarettes and other goods are very good it is not adviseable to smuggle.The controls are very often and intensive.It is not wearth the risk.You will be fined high and it will take you a lot of time if you are caught!
The tax free status means some good bargins. Beware though that the border customs are on the look out, so loading up a car and driving into France or Spain might prove a problem. As it happens we had a French car and the Spanish customs showed little interest.
This is a mountain country, so unless you're in summer, if you drive, just bring some basic gear with you: contact wheels or wheel chains are very handy if you don't want to slip out of the road in a snow storm... of course there's maintenance and roads are cleaned regularly, but sometimes snows faster than the maintenance services!
Believe it or not, you can actually get lost in Andorra. You will appreciate this when you go to look for a street sign, only to find out that the Andorrans just don't label their streets. You will be happy to know that even if you do get lost, there is an inherent logic to the towns of Andorra. Because all the towns sit in a valley, they each have a shape which is somehting like a badly rolled cigarette, fat in the middle and tapered on the ends. By looking at the hills above, never a problem in Andorra, you should get some idea where in the town you are.
There are some tunnels, especially in the south when you are coming into Andorra from Spain. Just be sure to have your headlights on! Some of the tunnels are quite long, and you´ll find that locals in the Pyrenees know the roads well and are in a bigger hurry than you might be. Don´t forget your headlights!
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