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It is not, no matter what they say, like falling off a bike, which is why we’d advise you get inter intermediate Andorra skiing.

Skiing, for us, more follows the course of if you don’t use it, you lose it.

So if, for whatever reason, you’ve been off the slopes for a few years but still know how to snow plough.

You’re skilled enough to leave the starters on the nursery slopes and join the middle class.

Andorra’s box of options

Now the Pearl of the Pyrenees mountainous adventure spot claims, with good reason, to have cornered the market in families’ beginners’ skiing.

With Solos ramping it up with their Beginners Ski Week in Arinsal.

And following it up now with Arinsal Intermediate.

Andorra’s Vallnord-Pal Arinsal ski resort offers 63 km of pistes linked by 44 lifts.

The resort caters for all abilities, though intermediates will especially enjoy the wide selection of blue and red runs.

Cool for school

Now my past having caught up with me I’ve been hived off to personal tutors, saints all, in Soll and Val D’Isere.

But you’ll get to enjoy the camaraderie of ski school.

With guests joining a group led by expert instructors to develop technique.

Guests will stay at the Yomo Patagonia Hotel, a modern property set at the foot of the resort.

Just 50m from the main six-seat ski lift.

With ski-in access, comfortable rooms, and excellent facilities, Solos is pledging a convenient and welcoming base.

Count us in

A seven-night Arinsal Ski – Intermediate Week trip, departs on 1 March 2026, from £2,099pp.

With flights and transfers, airport taxes, a twin room for solo use, breakfast and dinner daily.

A welcome drink, six-day ski pass, six-day silver ski hire (skis, boots, poles and helmet).

Five days of ski school (three hours per day) and an accompanying Solos Tour Leader.

Never mind the Pandora Papers let’s look at the Andorra Papers where health is wealth.

It’s timely to focus on the Pyrenees country and not just because England’s footballers are heading there on Saturday.

No, Andorra la Vella is in our thoughts because it has been voted Europe’s capital of health.

So what qualifies you to top such a list?

The Health List

Well, the number of gyms, healthy restaurants, water quality, air pollutions and total hours of sunlight per year.

Puma has compiled a table of 52 of the European capitals.

And in in the interests of fairness we’re told the number of healthy eateries have been scaled appropriately by population.

All to give a fair result.

So without further do a trawl through our healthy (and unhealthy) cities.

And a deeper dive into Andorra.

Small is best

It’s the 11th smallest country in the world by population (77.006) and 16th in span (181sq miles).

But it has 10 million visitors a year mainly for its skiing,

With its capital 1,023m above sea level.

And as we all know that is as healthy an activity as you’ll find, as long as you stay on your feet.

It’s also a tax haven which our Pandora ‘pals’ clearly know,

All of which contributed to having the world’s highest life expectancy of 81 in 2013 according to the Global Burden of Disease Study.

And so you want to see where your city sits in the table.

London’s trailing

Tower of Strength: But low down in the list

If you’re from one of the three ‘other’British capitals you have bragging rights on London.

The Big Smoke is back in 43rd (ouch!)

Edinburgh in Scotland is 11th, Belfast in Northern Ireland is 16th and Cardiff in Wales 27th.

With my old stomping ground of Dublin in Ireland squeezed in 25th.

Take a bow if you’re Lisbon, Bern, Tallinn or Reykjavic.

While Monaco, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Luxembourg and Nicosia make up the top ten.

And finally

I’ve no skin in the game for Nur-Sultan (that’s Kazakhstan), Baku (Azerbaijan) or Moscow, though no list will put me off going there.

But they are down in the bottom five, along with Sarajevo in Bosnia & Herzegovina (couldn’t have been when I visited).

While I’m keeping it from my pal, Turkish Airlines’ finest Onur and my barber Mohamed but Ankara in Turkey is last.

So when you’re watching the England game just think Andorra Papers where health is wealth.

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