r/europe • u/MarktpLatz Lower Saxony (Germany) • Jul 24 '17

What do you know about... Andorra?

This is the twenty-seventh part of our ongoing series about the countries of Europe. You can find an overview here.

Todays country:

Andorra

Andorra is one of Europes smallest nations. The position of head of state of andorra is exercised by two people at once - the President of France and the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Urgell. Tourism is the most important part of the economy of Andorra.

So, what do you know about Andorra?

106 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

186 comments sorted by

View all comments

42

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '17

  • Spain and France had a baby...

  • ...and it grew up to be an adorable tiny tax haven.

  • Official language is Catalan.

  • Around a third of the people are actually Andorran, the rest is French/Spanish/Portuguese. So only around a third can vote and stuff.

  • So my crazy backpacking brother passed through there a few years back. Dunked himself in some nice-looking stream... could have been this one, for all I know. Drank some of that water because "why not". Aaaand he had the runs all the way back to Croatia >:D

6

u/MrCatEater English Jul 24 '17

Haha! How long did your brother backpack for?

9

u/[deleted] Jul 25 '17

IIRC he was gone for a month or so. One day he's in Slovenia, then the next in Rome, then taking a ferry to Spain and so on.

I envy him a bit. I mean, I couldn't imagine sleeping in a bag, or on a bench... like some hobo. On the other hand, he's so much freer than I am, both in the amount of money he needs to travel, but also decisions - "huh that looks like an interesting side-trail, time to investigate" and so on.

7

u/MrCatEater English Jul 25 '17

Ugh I would love to do something like that one day. Maybe after uni.