Andorra is really a principality located between France and Spain. Additionally it is a well liked among Lithuanian tourist seeking really good cuisine and Ukrainian tourists (very recently) who went there assuming that Andorra was Pandora from the Movie, Avatar. Ultimately the Lithuanians were happy, nevertheless the Ukrainians were bitterly disappointed.
Interestingly enough, only until very recently, Andorra was completely unknown until a U.S. spy satellite spotted an extremely large billboard, coded in Catalan describing the most important shoe store, Andorra Footwear selling Andorran footwear, which can be manufactured entirely from cobra snake skin. Naturally, as soon as the bill board was translated, hoards of sneaker hungry European and US tourists flooded into Andorra to buy these unusual sneakers. It isn’t just About Snake Shoes!
Outside their sneakers, Andorra has a lot more to supply vacation hungry tourists or displaced terrorists seeking an out of the way spot to hunker down. To begin with, they’ve got far more to make available than anyone could ever imagine. What will happen are the ten best things about Andorra that a majority of everyone want to know.
1. The text is quite Like Spanish, but… The language of Andorra is quite much like Spanish, but was modified in 1342 by Prince Zebacula to confuse the Spanish. It resembles Spanish somewhat, however, several extra letters were added to totally confuse Spanish nobleman throughout their epic Scrabble tournaments, that happen to be a popular among both Andorrans as well as the Spanish. This gave the edge for the Andorrans who had bet heavily and won large tracts of land in Greenland, which Spain had conquered and claimed as his or her own. Of course, everyone living in Greenland (maybe 11 people and 10 stranded caribou) knew that nobody would like to live there, anyway.
2. Andorran didn’t have Native Snakes, Until 1994. Andorra didn’t have any reptiles of any sort, just one fateful day, an airliner flying low through the filming from the snake/plane movie over the Andorran countryside accidentally dropped 2,123 king cobras on the sleepy mountain towns of Andorra. The residents awoke and also to their horror, saw that they were overrun with large venomous cobras. Everyone hid, except one famous Andorran herpetologist who figured out ways to solve the snake problem and correct their teetering economy that has been almost insolvent because the country purchased pre-Castro Cuban bearer bonds large quantities. At the very least, Dr. Frederic Limon, convinced the townspeople to create cobra moccasins that have been eventually called Snake Shoes which became an instant hit on the list of few tourists they’d. Andorran Snake Footwear is famous all over the world.
3. Andorra invented golf almost 1,300 years ago. Since the economy of Andorra am heavily influenced by ranching and since almost all of the cattle pastures were situated on the tops of hills and mountains in the Pyrenees, the towns that had been found in the valleys beneath the pastures suffered with the manure rolling into large clumps and landing in the heart of their towns. This caused a lot of upset, until one of several townspeople dug holes all around the hills and during the entire country side. The manure then rolled harmlessly into the holes and also the problem was solved.
The Andorrans celebrated and also on one inspired evening in 711 AD, they held an event and reenacted the solution to their manure problems. This turned into golf and the idea was quickly and shamelessly stolen through the Scottish aristocracy, which over time has grown to be mistakenly connected with Scotland. However, everyone in Andorra knows nobody invented the game There is a saying within their language about this, “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 would be quite clever if 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 in the tallest peak in Andorra, Coma Pedrosa that is roughly 9,650 feet high. It turned out formerly called Muntanya Pedrosa, until Megalora jumped from the mountain to his sad destiny. He languished within a coma, and so the name, for 237 days until his death. The irony of the whole thing is he could have survived the jump, if he only waited until an operating parachute was invented, which happened 1783 by Louis-Sebastien Lenormand, a Frenchman.
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