ANDORRA: One of SMALLEST and MOST MOUNTAINOUS countries in EUROPE - a ROAD TRIP
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- Visit the Principality of Andorra with me, and discover it’s most beautiful roads.
Located between France and Spain, there is a mountainous Micronation. A tiny state with the slogan the “country in the mountains”. This natural beauty is located in the Pyrenees mountain range and is one of the smallest countries in the world. Join a road trip on a motorcycle and visit the best roads and highlights of Andorra.
00:00 Introduction to Andorra
01:09 Entering Andorra from Spain through Smuggler Routes and Port du Cabus Pass
02:35 Riding to the valley and to the town La Massana
03:59 The villages of Grandvalira
04:39 Grau Roig Skiing area and hotel
06:32 The road to Port d'Envalira mountain pass and France
10:07 Hidden gem of exiting Andorra through Spain
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That crashed bike picture looked much more dramatic then the real reason why "Fox" was down. Tipped over by the wind ;-)
Yeah this time it luckily was not a very spectacular crash!
Thanks for your video. Andorra is beautiful country with beautiful roads dan mountain.
Safety riding dan healthy.
Andorra is indeed stunning! 😍
In the next episode you will pass by my mountains and my areas !!
I can't wait to see the episode!!
That’s nice! I hope you will like it!
Very nice video from an Andorran LOVE an honor to those Who come
Andorra is really nice!
ein flottes highlight am Fr. danke schön.
Gerne! ☺️
Andorra is lovely had a sat there when stopping in France and got caught in thick mist coming away and off the mountain .
Oh no, I know how mist can ruin the ride! 😂
I absolutely love Andorra. You can stop up in the mountains and all you hear are the bells that hang around the cows necks. A surreal place, and I cannot recommend it highly enough....
That’s exactly how it is - it’s really beautiful!
I’ve never heard of this country. After I watch your video, I’m going to do a search about Andorra 🇦🇩 I’ve had a couple of my scooters get blown over by very strong winds…🤣🤣🤣
It’s really a very nice country and place to visit! So small though! 😂
Thanks Leah, Roger and I are now planning to include a trip to Andorra this September because of you. Love Love love 💖💖💖.
Very nice - if you ride off-road especially include the smuggler trail from the last episode and the road that I mention in the end of the video. They are super nice! N
@@Got2Go thank you. Im not very experienced off road, but have a good bike, so would like to give it a go!
Hi, second comment , good video
Thank you! Congrats to being second!
Welcome to my small country, hope you enjoyed it!
I loved Andorra! You are very lucky to live there!
50 Years ago on a family caravan holiday in the South of France, my Dad wanted to visit Andorra. We almost died when the brakes could not cope with the long downhill roads and a caravan :-o.... Ahhh Happy days.... :-)))
1.st 😜😜🏍 Very cooool 👀👍👍 Wunderschön!!
Congrats to being first! ☺️
@@Got2Go 😜👍
wow beautiful
Thank you!
@@Got2Go welcome 💙🤜🤛
Andorra is one of the most beautiful mountains country and your video gave more about traveling to Andorra on Motorcycle is very useful and I appreciate your adventures tour on your motorcycle💃💃💃🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁👍
another place to add to the places i must see for myself. great movie enjoyed it
Wonderful Video....Thanks for showing us gorgeous places...!!!!
You are welcome! It’s really a little gem!
Spectacular.. 👌.. Very beautiful and scenic.. Amazing roads.. and very good info.. thanks.. 👍
Thank you! ☺️
Thanks Eva. This is fabulous. Looking for to the next one.
My name is Lea, but otherwise thank you ! ☺️😉
I was maintenance manager of soldeu el tarter ski resort for 4 years in 91. Lot of souvenirs and stories with great peoples.
Another great video thanks for the ride along
Thank you for joining!
Lea
Only YOU could do justice riding through Andorra! Beautiful and Breathtaking footage Lady!!! You have an AMAZING talent for filming and story telling!
You, Sweet Lady now get 2 Dozen roses from me. Epic stuff Lady!
Peace.
Ride SAFE and BE safe Lea.
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Soon the roses will not fit into a vase anymore! What should I do then? ☺️
Thank you so much for joining again! 💃🏻
Such a beautiful small country with enjoyable twisty roads
Andorra is really amazing!
Bendiciones te quiero ver en guatemala
you are amazing and so are your videos
Thank you!
Used to drive coaches from full of kids from Hammersmith Palace London to Lamasana for a week skiing way back 30 years ago, must have changed massively since then
I guess so! ☺️
😍 Thanks for sharing those beautiful view ropes 👌
Thank you for joining the ride!
Awesome
Thank you!
beautiful OMG ! I too would love to ride those roads thank you lea 100 times. live long and happy .
Thank you! It’s really nice roads in Andorra ! 😍
very nice video - and a s always, quite informative. Beautiful country.
Thank you!
Thanks Lea. A nice litle country. Good filming. And Bikes that resting...
Bikes always need some rest too - at least once per trip! 😂
Great video my friend. One day I want too ride through Europe on my motorcycle
Definitely a beautiful thing to do! ☺️
Very good morning to u. Hello beautiful today u look soooooo beautiful. Beautiful places v r seeing at home because of u. Thanku soo much for telling as about the country .keep going. Love u. Lots of love from INDIA.👍👍👍
Thank you for joining the ride! ☺️
Merci
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Great ride, thank you for the beautiful trip and camerawork. You have such a nice tranquil voice to listen to, and yes.. Andorra is on my bucketlist too, thanks to you yet even more
Thank you! Andorra is definitely a little gem for the bucket list! And it’s very good situated because you can ride all the Pyrenees in addition! 😍
Nice vidio!! Beautiful places!!
Thank you!
I love your absolutely captivating intros and the upbeat and enterprising vibes in your videos!
Thank you Christoph for joining again! I have to admit that the intros often are my favorite part of the videos too! 😂
Beautiful scenery, awesome capture as always 👍🏽 be safe 🙏🏽
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Awesome ride, but then all your rides are great… safe travels✌️
Thank you! ☺️
Dramatic scenery do it again.
Thank you
Awesome ride !!!
Thank you!
Lea thanks for the beautiful ride and the breathtaking views. Keep on traveling, be safe 😊
Thank you for joining!
Very nice video, greetings from your fan in Argentina!!!
Thank you and hello to Argentina!
Hi Lea, wenn man Andorra langsam buchstabiert ist man bereits wieder in Spanien oder Frankreich. 🤣 Mein erster Besuch war 1988 in Andorra. Auch mit damaligen 27PS zu erreichen. Dein Film macht Lust auf einen weiteren Ride to Andorra. 💪
Haha, genau so ist es! Da fängt man es gerade an zu genießen, schon ist es wieder vorbei! 😂
Lovely 👌☘️
Always brilliant with content
Thank you!
5:41 .. iDon'tknow..... !! ..... good 👍😇😊☺️😊
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Saludos desde Ecuador
Hello to Ecuador !
Ich war 1977 in Andorra. Damals war es kaum touristisch. Daran habe ich gute Erinnerungen. Du hast es wie immer sehr gut dargestellt. Ich glaube, du willst jedes Mal besser sein als das letzte Video. Bisher gelungen. Daumen hoch!
Visited in 1967. Andorra seems timeless, except for the newer gas station.
The mountains hopefully don’t change that much! But that was quite some time ago! 😳
@@Got2Go i can tell you its 54 years ago 😃
danke schön!
da werde ich nächste woche sein :)
The skiing in Andorra was great, I can recommend it! We had nice weather, which helps of course.
But OUCH! Grau Roig was the by far, far, most expensive hotel available when we looked for accomodation. We settled for very nice places in Soldeu one year and El Tarter another. Grau Roig looked nice, but it was no where near within our budget. I would not recommend staying in Pas de la Casa as the last slope home then is very exposed to the sun. The slopes into Soldeu and El Tarter were on the northern side of the mountain and kept fresh a lot better.
It was actually not so super expensive when we were there - but it was summer off season and last minute booking prices. We as well checked the prices for winter and they were three times as high. 😳
Beautiful video, and so well narrated. Are these mountains very different from those you rode in America? See you Thursday,!
Very good question! I indeed find the mountains and espeacilly the roads in Europe different to America. There are much more tiny hairpin roads than basically anywhere in the USA - and if you for example travel through Colorado I as well found the landscape quite different with the kind of trees that grow there, shape of the top of the mountains and so on. For me each mountain chain has its own charm and feeling - but maybe that’s just me. ☺️
Stunning scenery and beautifully filmed, looking forward to next week.
Way back when, if you lived in French Pyrenees, Andorra was the place to go to buy Beer/ Liquor/ Tobacco/ etc, not sure what it is like now.....but I notice you both had huge panniers hehe
Promise we didn’t smuggle anything out of andorra - even though we took the smugglers route in. 😂😂😂
ciaoo, grazie per i suggerimenti, a giugno andrò sui Pirenei partendo dal Lago di Como, che tu ben conosci. Attendo il video della parte italiana.
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Next time you stay in Andorra book a room in hotel Nordic at El tarter. The lobby is a real car and moto museum. Another suggestion i have for you drive in the direction of Mas d'Azil in France, you are literally driving through a cave. Like every week I was back at our weekly rendezvous. Yes, only 6 days left for another episode.
Oh wow, thank you! Mas d‘Azil looks amazing, never been there or heard of it! I put it on my bucket list too!
LOVED the ride 😁!! Such beautiful weather too!!
Andorra....not know ??? We live and learn every day
As you have mentioned several times in previous videos..no need to travel the world..when on your door step..lies some fantastic roads.. scenery..
Oh !! .. perhaps many of your viewers would like to see the effort / time..to set up and record a drone piece ...to add to your videos ?
I might consider to do a video just about my equipment and setup at one point - because some people ask about that every now and then! It always takes really quite some time! ☺️
Hmm looks such a nice place to visit! Shall I move there and start a new point of living. Thank you so much!
Good idea. 🤗
Hallo, ein so kleines Land mit derart vielen schönen Zielen. Ein Land das fast nie im Focus bei Reiseziele steht. Gut das wir das jetzt erleben durften👍🤗👍 LG Leopold
Ja, und dabei ist Andorra super wenn man sowieso in den Pyrenäen ist! ☺️😍
Nice video Lea, somewhere i would like to ride sometime for sure. Cheers, Steve
Definitely a place for the bucket list! Thanks for joining the ride!
Very nice ride in a very nice little Country. Thanks for sharing again 😍
Yes, andorra is definitely a little cute gem! 😍
Hey Lea, again a very great episode. Andorra?, a little pearl in the mountains. I´ve never been there but it´s on the list too. Thanks for this great inspiration and take a better care for the "Fox" 😊
Yes, poor fox. Not really wind resistant unfortunately 😂
I really appreciate the quality of your videos. 🎉It's always very inspiring to me as a cyclist
Another great production. Never been to Andorra. Maybe next year. You seem to pick some great hotels. Take care out there.
It’s worth a ride, especially if you go to the Pyrenees in general
Thanks to opening our eyes to a wonderful little country Andorra.
Andorra is indeed very nice!
Another beautiful ride Lea. Thank you for sharing this with us. 😀
Thank you for joining the ride!
No words to say as usual its so nice specially your voice and way of describing things just adds a uniqueness to the episode...god bless you sister and looking for your next video...and no need to say thanks to us for watchng the videos because i guess we need to thank you for making a way for us to see different places through your eyes....stay safe my wonderful sister ...lots of good wishes and love from this brother of India
Then this time: thank you for your super nice words! It means a lot to me! ☺️
@@Got2Go from words i can judge a person and u are a wonderful soul and so thanks to god for introducing with such a wonderful sister of mine...always in my prayer ur name will be there
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Great ride. I have never heard of Andorra. How cool!
Andorra definitely is pretty nice! 😍
Hayalimi gerçekleştiriyorsun tebrikler 🧡💚👍👏👏👏
Hi Lea! It's funny to hear how you pronounce the names with some kind of french accent, as catalan is the official language in Andorra and the pronuntiation is very different (this only applies to Soldeu and Grau Roig, but of course you couldn't know). It's the same thing when I tried to pronounce the name of some cities in The Netherlands, last summer 😂😂😂. I can confirm you that Andorra is worth a visit in winter, and if you sky you must do it. A friend of mine is publishing some videos about Andorra in winter in her channel, PACA Stories, just if you want to have a look at them. Thank you again for this beautiful video!!!
Sounds great! And I was already wondering how to really pronounce those places but couldn’t really find out 😂
Thanks will swing by Androrra this summer, cya on the roads. (just look out for a old silver fox BMW 1100RT with his V, when u meet him)
I will - even though I might hit some different roads this summer. 😉
Awesome video, awesome scenery , thanks for sharing you Lea! 👍👍
I was in Nice and drove along the coast into Monaco and to Italy on my way north towards Parma. When I returned to the US I received a gift in the mail from France. It was a speeding ticket for exceeding the limit by 6-7 kph. I was on a toll road and the limit was 110 kph. I sent it back to them with a note. “I can’t read French.” I guess I’ll need to watch myself the next time in France. Ride safe and have fun. 🇺🇸
😂😂😂 that’s a good story! I didn’t even know they would send a speed ticket to the US. But yes, the French have a lot of speed cameras (as well a lot of sneaky ones!), I don’t even know how often I was caught already (not on this trip though! ☺️)
Well this vid was just superb outstanding and lovely scenery mountains galore beautiful roads and not forgetting the commentator ..congrats on yet another great vid Lea and travel partner..✌👍🏍
Thank you so much! Will say hello to the travel partner from you! ☺️
Hey Lea, normally I enjoy your travel blog in my big screen tv. That's why I couldn't able to share my feelings traveling with you. Today I have watched it on my phone & able to leave my comments. Though Andorra is a tiny Country, but landscape is awesome. I've enjoyed it thoroughly. Thanks once again for sharing your nice experience with us. Stay safe and blessed.
Hi Lea, Andorra is very nice, with lot of mounts. Really it is my destination in future. But this year no. This year, I wont visit Greece, National Parc Loanina and coast near Parga. Second target it will Romania, Transalpina and Tranfagarashan. Some short trips I plan in Germany, Austria.
Next thursday I will come to your channel. Robin
That sounds like an awesome plan - let me know how your travels will go! ☺️
@@Got2Go Yes, I can send it by email.
Hermoso andorra fui en 2019, iba por dos días y al final estuve como 6 días, adore toda esa zona cuando la conocí. Te felicito excelente video
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Thank you for all these great impressions of Andorra, it was wonderful to follow you along! Have a great time and of course see you next Thursday 😊!
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Beautiful scenery, thank you for taking us along on your journey😊
Thank you for joining the ride!
4:27 I have the same thing in mind, must be great in winter too
Was für eine wunderschöne Landschaft. 😍😍 Mega. Danke für's mitnehmen🙏
Gerne. ☺️
Thanks, Lea. Seems like such a beautiful and peaceful place. Even the cows don't seem to care they are going to grace the middle of a bun 😂 And the mountains just lend to the majestic views. Another one for the bucket list. Cheers.
N.B. Comment for the customer service department - Only 12 mins once a week? 🤔😉
The customer service is unfortunately unavailable - forever 😂
Next episode too will be a rather short one - but then there is one longer one (and my favorite!!!) coming up. Something to look forward to!
@@Got2Go Well☺. Yes, something to look forward to.
LOL at your comment "shit" when the bike tipped over. Andorra look like a wonderful place to ride with all the good sweeping curvy roads. What language do you use MOST often in your travels across Europe. Is the English language considered universal ?? THANK you for the laughs and sharing your adventure !!
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Indeed I use English most of the time - I speak a few words French, even less words Spanish and try to use those when I am in countries where they are spoken. But most of the time it is English and you always find someone who understand it.
Looks gorgeous.
In Norway we did the same. We could have taken a tunnel or a two hour drive through the mountains. So beautiful.
Live must be harsh in winter in Andorra.
Or live is very nice when skiing in winter and staying at all the cozy places ☺️
@@Got2Go i really don’t like the cold. Somewhere between 18 and 28°C, dry, not too much wind and I’m very happy.
I will be doing Andora this summer with my so & a cousin. This will be on our way from santander across into France. Enjoyed your video, great information.
Hi Lea. Greetings from Oz. What an amazing little country Andora is. Certainly is 'The Country in the Mountains' ! Magic.
Thank you for taking us along on your amazing European Adventure.
I'm with you, I didn't know about Andorra. It's beautiful though. Stupid wind blows. Must've been super windy to blow your bike over. See you next week. Ride safe!
Super windy - and in addition me super stupid putting the bike in the wrong direction. 😂😂😂
A beautiful place and the video footage you get is fantastic, feels like I'm floating there with you. And yes shit indeed 😂, I hope your bike was not damaged. I love it.👍👍💐. By the way i wasn't laughing at your bike falling it was just the way you eloquently said that nice word.😆😆
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I was laughing about the fallen bike a bit though. 😉
You are very lucky to have such a stunning landscape to ride so close to your home. Cant help but feel a little jealous , but still glad to at least view it through your eyes. Those countries should be paying you as a travel ambassador . Great story telling.
Yes, I am super lucky! I often have to remind myself how nice it is close to home too and that you don’t always need to travel far…
Nice video! I love Andorra too. I plan to pass this summer, going over the great alpine road and then to Picos de Europa. Happy riding!
love all your videos you sure make some cool ones
Thank you
@@Got2Go your welcome can not wait for the next one!
Great Lea, Andorra looks a great place for bikes in the summer. Loved the mountains and laid back vibe. Thanks for sharing 🇬🇧👍
Yes it’s a little gem! Thanks for joining the ride!
Another visually amazing video with historical background and trip suggestions. Your traveling mini-movies get me through the doldrums of winter. I can't thank you enough.
Thank you so much! Happy to get us all over the winter until we can ride again!
Beautiful video! Have been all over spain and france but never had a chance to see this beautiful little bit of the Pyrenees.
Definitely worth a visit - as well in combination with the surrounding mountains in France and Spain!
sure the wind knocked your bike over.. we believe you....
Or maybe it was my travel partner? 🧐🤔😂
Thank you so much for these videos through the Pyrenees. I'm about to go on a trip in my van and the fact that you've bothered to not only film and narrate the beautiful drives, but you've bothered to annotate the road numbers, village and town names, etc is so helpful. This is the best resource for my travel plans and a lovely set of videos to watch. Thank you soooo much 🙏😇❤