Andorra

On Sunday we left for Andorra early in the morning. We drove the 7 hours there and thought it would be snowy but there was hardly any at all. We slept in a really nice hotel and had a really nice dinner and breakfast. The next day when we woke up there was at least 15cm of snow fall overnight. We headed off towards the French border and the snow there was much thicker and falling heavier and it was -2 degrees. We stopped for a hot chocolate in a small restaurant and saw that people were skiing on the slopes and mum said that we could stop and ski for the rest of the day and stay overnight. We hired the skis and went skiing on the two slopes. Frazer went snowboarding and couldn’t get up the tows to start with, but eventually got the hang of it. We had a lot of fun and about half way through the day Darcie and I swapped to snowboarding. I didn’t get up the tow on my 1st try but after that I had no trouble. The snow was really powdery and dry and would go over my knees in some areas. At 5 we handed the gear back to the hire shop and went back into the hotel. We had dinner at 7 and Frazer and I shared our 2 meals, pig trotters with snails and rabbit. The rabbit was nice and I really liked the pig trotters (they were really soft). Then we went to our room and went to bed. The next morning the snow was even thicker and we had breakfast looking out onto the slopes. Then we left to go to Brittany. We drove for 10 long hours all the way to our house swap in Locronan, a small medieval village near Quimper. It was a really big house that was made of stone and had a large fireplace in the living room.