Andorra is a principality located between France and Spain. It’s also a favorite among Lithuanian tourist seeking great cuisine and Ukrainian tourists (very recently) who went there convinced that Andorra was really Pandora in the Movie, Avatar. Ultimately the Lithuanians were happy, however the Ukrainians were bitterly disappointed.
Oddly enough, only until very recently, Andorra was completely unknown until a U.S. spy satellite spotted an extremely large billboard, written in Catalan describing the most important shoe store, Andorra Footwear selling Andorran running sneakers, which can be manufactured entirely out of cobra snake skin. Of course, when the bill board was translated, hoards of sneaker hungry European and US tourists flooded into Andorra to acquire these unusual sneakers. It isn’t just About Snake Shoes!
Outside their sneakers, Andorra has considerably more to make available vacation hungry tourists or displaced terrorists seeking an off the beaten track spot to hunker down. For one thing, they’ve got a lot more to offer than anyone could ever imagine. What follows are the ten best reasons for Andorra that a majority of everyone would want to know.
1. The language is Kind of Like Spanish, but… The word what of Andorra is incredibly similar to Spanish, but was modified in 1342 by Prince Zebacula to confuse the Spanish. It resembles Spanish somewhat, however, a couple of extra letters were put into totally confuse Spanish nobleman on their epic Scrabble tournaments, that are a well liked among both Andorrans as well as the Spanish. This gave the sting to the Andorrans that had bet heavily and won large tracts of land in Greenland, which Spain had conquered and claimed his or her own. Of course, everyone surviving in Greenland (maybe 11 people and 10 stranded caribou) knew that no one really wants to live there, anyway.
2. Andorran did not have any Native Snakes, Until 1994. Andorra didn’t have any reptiles of any kind, one fateful day, an airliner flying low in the filming of the snake/plane movie in the Andorran countryside accidentally dropped 2,123 king cobras to the sleepy mountain towns of Andorra. The residents awoke and their horror, saw that they are overrun with large venomous cobras. Everyone hid, except one famous Andorran herpetologist who identified a means to solve the snake problem and fix their teetering economy which was almost insolvent for the reason that country purchased pre-Castro Cuban bearer bonds in bulk. At the very least, Dr. Frederic Limon, convinced the townspeople to create cobra moccasins which are eventually called Snake Shoes which became an immediate hit among the few tourists that they. Andorran Snake Footwear is famous around the world.
3. Andorra invented golf almost 1,300 years back. Since the economy of Andorra am heavily dependent upon ranching and because almost all of the cattle pastures were situated on the tops of hills and mountains within the Pyrenees, the towns which were perfectly located at the valleys underneath the pastures suffered with the manure rolling into large clumps and landing in the middle of their towns. This caused a lot of upset, until one of several townspeople dug holes throughout the hills and through the country. The manure then rolled harmlessly in the holes along with the problem was solved.
The Andorrans celebrated and on one inspired evening in 711 AD, they held an event and reenacted the solution to their manure problems. This become golfing and the idea was quickly and shamelessly stolen through the Scottish aristocracy, which over time is becoming mistakenly associated with Scotland. However, everyone in Andorra knows nobody invented the game They have a saying of their language that, “Ells poden creure que ells, els escocesos, va inventar el golf, pero al final, l’unic que va fer va ser robar aquest joc Bol merda de nosaltres!” This could actually be quite clever in case you understood Catalan.
4. Andorra invented skydiving in 1781. Juanito Megalora, an Andorran, was credited with having invented skydiving in 1781. He earned one fateful jump through the tallest peak in Andorra, Coma Pedrosa that’s roughly 9,650 feet high. It turned out formerly called Muntanya Pedrosa, until Megalora jumped over mountain to his sad destiny. He languished within a coma, and so the name, for 237 days until his death. The irony in the event is he could have survived the jump, if he only waited until a functional parachute was really invented, which occurred in 1783 by Louis-Sebastien Lenormand, a Frenchman.
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