Andorra is about three hours from our home in Barcelona. We’ve been in summer, for the June 2019 Spartan Race weekend, with the boys aged 6 and 3: alpine lakes, a freezing river and too much sun. We’ve also been in winter, sledding with a preschooler and a baby from an apartment in Encamp.
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Barcelona is one of the only major European cities where you can be on a beach in the morning and in real snow the same afternoon. La Molina, the closest proper ski resort, is about…
We live in Barcelona, and for years Andorra was “the place people drive to for skiing and cheap perfume”. Then Dumitru signed up for the Spartan Race there in June 2019, so we went with…
We live in Barcelona, so sledding isn’t something we grew up with — it’s something we drive two hours for, a few times each winter, and have slowly got better at. Most of what follows…