Arriving to Andorra - First Impressions of Andorra La Vella

You got pretty high, eh? You've been going up for about 15 minutes. Oh my god, you've got to come down again. Every time you get to the top of it, it's a little bit further. Now I'm terrified. If you saw my last video, you might have noticed that I ruined a lot of my clothes. Now don't get me wrong, that was completely worth it. But it does mean that I need some new clothes. So luckily, Lucropa have stepped up to fit me out with a new wardrobe. Check it out! Not bad. And I've actually got quite a few more pieces as well. Okay, but I need a jacket. Right, yeah, that'll do. Let's go. Now some of you might know this already, but once I like some clothing, I tend to wear it a lot. And I've already worn these through Barcelona, Armenia, and now Bucharest, where I am now. But I'll get to those videos in the future. All I can say for now is to check out the website in the description below for a huge range of clothing, and use my code for 15% off. There's a car coming. Huge thank you to Luc for sponsoring this video, and now let's get back to Andorra. Welcome to Andorra. Country number 70, for me, I think. We were just a few hours away in the Harrow wine fight, the video before this, and decided, well, why not come across to Andorra for a couple days and tick off a new country. I'm here with my mum as well. Someone said to me the other day, I said I was going to Andorra, and they said, is it a city or a country? Well, it's pretty much both. It's like the size of a city is a really, really small country. I think the population is 70,000, and it's right between Spain and France. It's mostly a skiing place, I think, but we're going to try and see what there is to do in the summer. One of the cool things to do here is there's the world's longest toboggan ride, and we just tried to get there, but it's right up on this hill, and there's not much public transport available. If you're driving, it's really easy, but if you're on public transport, there's only a couple buses a day that go up and a couple buses down, so we just missed one that was meant to be here at 10. The next one's not till 2, and then the next bus down is at 6. So that would mean we were waiting for 8 hours to do this 10-minute toboggan ride. But it does look really cool, so we might try and do it tomorrow instead. It's the morning after. We're back at the bus stop. We've got about 20 minutes to 10. We're going to make it this time. Take 2. We're finally going to make it, then. Day 2. How exciting. I hope it's worth it. All right, this is it. That's what we're doing. We've arrived. This is the queue, and we were told or I read online to get here as early as possible because apparently the queue gets pretty big later on. It opens at 10, and obviously we tried yesterday to get up here, but now we are here. It's the longest toboggan ride in the world. I think it lasts about 15 minutes. It says no bags. Yeah, I know. There's lockers in there. There's no bags and no big cameras. It also says there's no cameras at all, so I've got to put this in the locker and probably sneak a go for it. Oh, beautiful. We're on the way up now. This part's automatic, but then when we get to the top, then we can use the brakes and go as fast down as we want. I'm going to have to do this filming really slightly. How are you feeling? A little bit nervous. I'm terrified of heights, so this is feel the fear and do it anyway. But hey, I'm going to enjoy it. You got pretty high, eh? We've been going up for about 15 minutes. You've got to come down again. Every time you get to the top of it, it's a little bit further. Now I'm terrified. I didn't want to go in the front. I had no choice. Right, well, the actual ride was great. It was actually really long down. It felt really fast when you're going around the corners. Unfortunately, you have to keep a distance from the person in front of you. Wait, there's a more important thing. My GoPro just fell out my pocket. Halfway down. I was filming with it and putting it back in my pocket and it fell out. I don't know if I'm going to have any footage to show you because we have to leave before they can go and collect it. I can't get it back before leaving. I've given them my details, so hopefully I can manage to get it sent on or something. I don't know. I guess you all know, depending on if you've just seen any footage. The other thing I was going to say is you have to slow down to stop yourselves hitting the person in front. We had to keep slowing down because the person in front of us was really slow. We didn't get the full experience, but the beginning bit where you're going down really quickly was great. So what did you think? Amazing. I loved it. Not as scary as I thought and the scenery was fantastic. The only thing, if you do it, is try not to get behind someone, maybe a family because they slow down, which means you've got to slow down. But yeah, it was awesome. Yeah, the first half was good. The second half was slow. Well, we have two hours to kill until the next bus back down. So rather than just waiting around, we decided to go for a bit of a walk. This is our last day in Andorra, by the way. We're leaving for Barcelona tonight. My mum then flies in the morning and I'm off on the next trip as well. Yeah, it's been a short but sweet trip to Andorra. I think there's actually quite a lot to do for a really small country. You could do quite a lot here. There's loads of hikes and mountain biking and the summer adventure activities. And then in the winter they have the skiing and snowboarding and it just kind of feels like a massive ski village anyway. But I think it turns into a giant ski town. Pretty good views. That's it. We're on the way back down now. Back to Andorra la Vella, the main part of town. Then we're leaving in a few hours. We're on the way back down now. We're on the bus and we are the only people on the bus. And on the way up we were the only people plus two workers. I don't think this is a very popular way of getting up there. I think most people just drive. Actually, Andorra is one of the only countries in the world without an airport. So to come here most people will just drive. You can get buses here from Barcelona and parts of Spain but as we found getting here is kind of difficult. So I think there's not much public transport. It's more of a driving place. Okay, I don't have my proper camera. We were just out tonight for dinner and found out that Cirque du Soleil are playing here in Andorra right now. And we can go and see it for free. So we just found tickets last minute. You can go and watch Cirque du Soleil with a standing ticket in Andorra completely for free. Barcelona now. We got a BlaBla car here late last night, which by the way, check it out is really useful. You basically just ride here on long journeys. But I don't think it's loud. Always so loud whenever I start filming. But I'm also about to say goodbye to my mama. Third day, third time to say goodbye. Mum's flying out this morning and then me in the morning. But yeah, back in Barcelona. I've had the most amazing ten days. I'm going to find it hard to say goodbye today. But until we meet in another destination... It's until next time. Until people see you again on the videos. Yeah, and they will see me soon. Maybe in the next three months I'll come find you. Okay, I just said goodbye to my mum and did the whole hug and kiss and all that soppy stuff that you guys don't want to see. Anyway, that was great. Awesome ten days spent with my mum. And now, first impressions of Andorra. So the main thing I heard about Andorra before going there was about the skiing. It's quite well known as a ski place. And I know people that have been there before for that. But I didn't really know what to expect in the summer. I found that it's completely beautiful and I could have spent longer than just a few days there because it seems like there's quite a lot to do. We didn't even get to do all of the hiking trails around. There's apparently a very good spa scene there. One of the largest thermal spas anywhere, I believe. And there's a lot more than I even put in this video. It's a tax-free haven and you can buy lots of things really cheaply. I think a lot of people come in from Spain and France to buy things and then bring them back. So yeah, I mean, as a weekend destination, I think it's definitely worth looking at and I'm glad I got to go because it's one of those little countries that people kind of forget about and some people didn't even know it was actually a country. When I mentioned Andorra to people, they didn't know where it was. So I'm glad I went and if you are in Spain or France, then add it to your list and tick it off because it'd be an easy one to skip. But that's it for me. Thank you again for watching and see you in the next video.