Andorra is a principality located between France and Spain. It is also a favorite among Lithuanian tourist seeking great cuisine and Ukrainian tourists (very recently) who visited believing that Andorra really was Pandora in the Movie, Avatar. Ultimately the Lithuanians were happy, but the Ukrainians were bitterly disappointed.
Oddly enough, only until very recently, Andorra was completely unknown until a U.S. spy satellite spotted an incredibly large billboard, coded in Catalan describing the greatest shoe store, Andorra Footwear selling Andorran footwear, which can be manufactured entirely away from cobra snake skin. Needless to say, as soon as the bill board was translated, hoards of sneaker hungry European and US tourists flooded into Andorra to buy these unusual sneakers. It’s not only About Snake Shoes!
Beyond their sneakers, Andorra has a lot more to supply vacation hungry tourists or displaced terrorists seeking an off the beaten track spot to hunker down. For one thing, they have got a lot more to provide than anyone could ever imagine. What follows include the ten best reasons for having Andorra that a lot of everyone would want to know.
1. Which is quite Like Spanish, but… The word what of Andorra is extremely comparable to Spanish, but was modified in 1342 by Prince Zebacula to confuse the Spanish. It resembles Spanish in some ways, however, a few extra letters were added to totally confuse Spanish nobleman in their epic Scrabble tournaments, which are a favourite among both Andorrans and the Spanish. This gave the extra edge for the Andorrans who had bet heavily and won large tracts of land in Greenland, which Spain had conquered and claimed as their own. Needless to say, everyone living in Greenland (maybe 11 people and 10 stranded caribou) knew that no-one really wants to live there, anyway.
2. Andorran didn’t have any Native Snakes, Until 1994. Andorra had no reptiles of any type, one fateful day, an airliner flying low in the filming in the snake/plane movie in the Andorran countryside accidentally dropped 2,123 king cobras onto the sleepy mountain towns of Andorra. The residents awoke and their horror, saw that they were overrun with large venomous cobras. Everyone hid, except one famous Andorran herpetologist who figured out a method to solve the snake problem and correct their teetering economy that has been almost insolvent because the country purchased pre-Castro Cuban bearer bonds in big amounts. At the very least, Dr. Frederic Limon, convinced the townspeople to generate cobra moccasins that have been eventually called Snake Shoes which became an instantaneous hit on the list of few tourists that they. Andorran Snake Footwear is famous throughout the world.
3. Andorra invented golf almost 1,300 years back. As the economy of Andorra was very heavily established by ranching and since the majority of the cattle pastures were found on the tops of hills and mountains inside the Pyrenees, the towns which were based in the valleys underneath the pastures experienced the manure rolling into large clumps and landing during their towns. This caused quite a lot of upset, until among the townspeople dug holes throughout the hills and throughout the outlying. The manure then rolled harmlessly in to the holes and also the problem was solved.
The Andorrans celebrated as well as on one inspired evening in 711 AD, they held a party and reenacted the solution to their manure problems. This turned into the game of golf and also the idea was quickly and shamelessly stolen with the Scottish aristocracy, which as time passes is becoming mistakenly connected with Scotland. However, everyone in Andorra knows nobody invented the action They’ve got a saying of their language that, “Ells poden creure que ells, els escocesos, va inventar el golf, pero al final, l’unic que va fer va ser robar aquest joc Bol merda de nosaltres!” This may really be quite clever in case you understood Catalan.
4. Andorra invented skydiving in 1781. Juanito Megalora, an Andorran, was credited with having invented skydiving in 1781. He made one fateful jump from your tallest peak in Andorra, Coma Pedrosa that is roughly 9,650 feet high. It was formerly called Muntanya Pedrosa, until Megalora jumped off of the mountain to his sad destiny. He languished in a coma, hence the name, for 237 days until his death. The irony in the event is always that he might have survived the jump, if he only waited until a practical parachute was actually invented, which happened in 1783 by Louis-Sebastien Lenormand, a Frenchman.
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