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Andorra thoughts

Mar 27th, 2006 | By | Category: Personal Columns

Arriving home at 5.30 am after a flight delayed by sixteen hours can leave a jaded feeling, but it did give time to ponder the country in which we spent a week.

Andorra is an indefinable place. A mountain principality since 1278, the princes are the President of France and the Catholic Bishop of Seu d’Urgell, a strange combination of secular modern Europe and medieval Christendom.

Catalan is one of the official languages, along with Spanish and French; it means everything is trilingual. If you throw in the English translation