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Andorra is Closed!

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:58:31 GMT

I was just watching the local news, and gobsmacked to see news pictures of today's snow in Andorra. More than 80cm has fallen during the past 24 hours, and the bad news is, from what I understood, Andorra is closed, including skiing until they have cleared the roads and access to the slopes!

The good news? The weekend is almost here.....

Re:Andorra is Closed!

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:21:07 GMT

Crikey

Re:Andorra is Closed!

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:22:26 GMT

Now that's what I call snow - none of this namby-pamby '5 inches and chaos' in the UK.

Re:Andorra is Closed!

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:58:15 GMT

i want some of that!

Hope they have got enough milk in, or failing that BEER

Re:Andorra is Closed!

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:12:42 GMT

EEK! That's one hell of a lot of snow

Re:Andorra is Closed!

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:30:04 GMT

OMG! Lucky for those arriving next week, not so good for those there now who can't get our skiing

Re:Andorra is Closed!

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:22:42 GMT

I hope the roads are clear by sunday afternoon . I have been so excited about going (I know very said for a 29 year old man) that if I can't get there I'll prob do myself in lol.

Re:Andorra is Closed!

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:40:24 GMT

Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh look at the size of the snowflakes.

AJ Adele

Re:Andorra is Closed!

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:12:08 GMT

Budvegas wrote:I hope the roads are clear by sunday afternoon . I have been so excited about going (I know very said for a 29 year old man) that if I can't get there I'll prob do myself in lol.

My husband is 48 and is worried about not sleeping before our holidays because he's so excited

Re:Andorra is Closed!

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:00:31 GMT

Panic over now anyway. I rang the travel agent to see if they had any reps out there they might be able to get in contact with. They do and it was only closed for the one day....phew.

Well Well Excited now!!!!

Hey 4 x 4 I take it you live in Andorra? Where abouts are you? We are off to Arinsal / Pal

Bud

Re:Andorra is Closed! And Open Again.....

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:38:12 GMT

Hi Budvegas! No, not Andorra, but a small town not so far from Barcelona. It's close enough to Andorra though that I can drive there in a couple of hours, ski all day, and be home again for dinner. The TV in Andorra comes mainly from the Catalunyan stations of northern Spain, and this was a
leading news story on most of them. I like Arinsal very much, and the snow was already great when I was there a couple of weeks ago. Most of the resorts in the Pyrenees are reporting anywhere from 25 cm and up of new snow from this fall alone, with a chance of more snow on Sunday.. Have a fabulous time, folks!

Re:Andorra is Closed! And Open Again......

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:13:21 GMT

Just an update, the TV news tonight is that the ski areas in Andorra and the Pyrenees are on avalanche alert for the weekend..

Re:Andorra is Closed!

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:02:02 GMT

I think Andorra is having a superb weekend, powder everywhere....

http://www.andorramania.com/poll_ski/ski.php

Re:Andorra is Closed!

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:41:30 GMT

We just got back from Arinsal.

Snow is great there at the mo, Wednesday was closed due to avalanche risk and too much snow. Those pictures posted was just what it was like. We took the free bus from Arinsal to Arcalis and got as far as La Massana, took over 2 hours to do a 15 minute journay, needless to say the skiing was great.

All back to normal on the roads at the moment there.

And as an aside when the agents quote 3 to 4 hours transfer from the airport, take that with a pich of salt. Depends on traffic, weather, and idiots taking ages to get their stuff of the bus and forgetting where they put their phone, mp3 player, tickets, passport etc.

Took us over 5 hours to get from Aiport to Princessa Parc, Arinsal. Only just made it in time to see the Rugby.

Re:Andorra is Closed!

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:37:11 GMT

Fourtoes wrote:We just got back from Arinsal.

Took us over 5 hours to get from Aiport to Princessa Parc, Arinsal. Only just made it in time to see the Rugby.

We were at the Princessa Parc, three years ago and our transfer was 5 hours + both ways, now when I went there 25 years ago it was less than 4!! Really enjoyed it there, as it was great for the family and realtively inexperienced, but that transfer will definately put us off going there again.