Our intention was to enter Andorra via the French side, we had a hotel booked in Andorra Ville which is close to the Spanish side of the country and next afternoon leave Andorra and go into and through the Spanish side of the Pyrenees. Tom Tom and local signs let us down in a critical respect after leaving Llivia. My Tom Tom is a slightly older version and Andorra whilst exists mapping to Andorra or street in the country is not possible. Therefore navigating had to be via the maps and the largest cities were over in Spain and so our plan changed and we entered and left Andorra via Spain. From Llivia, where there is not one road in and out of the Spanish enclave, we picked up signs for Puigcerda, which is over the border in Spain. From there we headed for La Seu d'Urgell, then from there the main road goes into Andorra. Above is that road just prior to the Andorra border post. Again this is what the crossing countries used to be like. Long queues, actually for us we were over the border in 20 - 30 minutes maximum delay and people check passports. Makes you feel that you have crossed into another country. As the photograph shows it was a cloudless hot day, when we finally wondered around from the hotel to the nearest eating joint in Andorra it was still 26oC at late afternoon..
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