Worldcrunch
Close your eyes. You’ve arrived in the lush and peaceful microstate of Andorra, known around the world for its natural spas. Flanked by majestic mountains, you take in the deep valleys and glistening lakes of this landlocked nation nestled between Spain and France as you settle in at one of the largest spas in Europe. […]
ANDORRA LA VELLA — Perched in the Pyrenees between Spain and France, Andorra — with fewer than 80,000 inhabitants — is as small as it is remote. And yet, the European micro-nation is playing a big part these days in the field of urban studies, the Andorran daily El Periòdic reports. Researchers with the City […]
Andorra, one of the smallest nations in the world nestled between France and Spain, is a monarchy headed by two Co-Princes: the Spanish-Roman Catholic Bishop of Urgell and … and the president of France. Back when we visited, the latter was of course Charles de Gaulle.
A R A B I C A ارابيكا YEMEN, IN THE CAPITAL *As hundreds of thousands of protesters poured into Yemen’s streets on Friday demanding, as they have for weeks, that President Ali Abdullah Saleh resign immediately, regime supporters came out in droves to demand that he stay. As Yemen crumbles around him – amidst […]