Tourist Sites

I visited the National Automobile Museum (Museu Nacional de l'Automòbil) located in the village of Encamp which is only a few minutes drive or bus ride (line L2) from Andorra la Vella. Quite impressive for a fairly small museum. They have automobiles from the late 1800s to today as well as motorcycles and bicycles plus a few military vehicles.

Restaurants

One of the best wine bars I've been to is 13,5° Bar de Vins, Carrer Prat de la Creu, 29-39, AD500 Andorra la Vella. It has the popular Enomatic wine dispensers that I had first seen in Tbilisi. There were 24 wines available from the dispensers plus others from their large wine selection. They carry mostly Spanish and Portuguese wines but also a few international such as New Zealand. Their hours are 18:00-01:00, closed Sunday.

To use the dispensers, first get the activation card from the bar. Insert the card into the dispenser and select your wine and the quantity desired. This is usually a 125ml tasting sample and two larger servings. The cost of the 125ml samples ranged from €1.60 to €3.30. The cost of each sample is added to the card and you return the card to the cashier and pay.

(There is an Andorran wine which I had seen in the tourist office but 13,5° Bar de Vin did not carry it; the server there said that they had it in the past, but that it is hard to find because so little is made, and it is very expensive.)

Enomatic 8 bottle wine dispenser

The Enomatic machines come in 2, 4 & 8 bottle dispenser. They also make dispenser with tapered ends so that 4, 6 or 6 machines can fit together to form a square, pentagon or hexagon. The 8 bottle is actually 4+4 so that you can have separate temperatures for each set of 4. They are not cheap: the 8 bottle dispenser sells for €15,777 (€13,370 before VAT). There is a Canadian representative.

Napa Technology another wine dispenser manufacturer makes model for home and well as for commercial establishments.

Enomatic touch panel

Accommodations

I stayed at the Suites Plaza Hotel & Wellness. The room was large with full amenities including ironing board and safe. It is close to the bus station, not far from city centre and has a very good restaurant. Closer to city centre is the Novotel which has a very large and popular buffet restaurant.

Beginning

The tiny country of Andorra is nestled high in the Pyrenees between France and Spain. It is a popular ski destination in winter and is a nice summer visit.

This tiny country (less than a tenth the size of PEI, or 4 times the size of Wolfe Island) seems quite wealthy. Most of the cars I saw were higher end European and Japanese. At a car show there I saw mainly Mercedes, BMW, Range Rover, Land Cruiser and Audi, and a couple of  American brands like Ford and Jeep. And there was a Mercedes camper van.