Andorra thoughts
Mar 27th, 2006 | By admin | Category: Personal ColumnsArriving 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 …