Andorrian Ale -

So after the Monaco Grand Prix practice round, we went to the Cannes Film Festival. We saw no stars, but I did see a few Ferraris and a nice Rolls Royce. I think you have to be there later at night, the stars don't come out for lunch.

We drove down the coast in the afternoon while the children slept. Past Miramar we stumbled into Saint Raphael. We had planned ahead with our suits, so we went swimming in the Mediterranean for a bit then had Italian. Saint Raphael is a neat little town with a nice beach, arena, and shopping area.

The next day we drove to Barcelona. We managed to see the Gaudi church that is still being built (pretty amazing) and we saw the magic fountains. At 9:30, they run the fountains with lights and music, so we sat around for a while waiting for this. Amazingly, all the music they had was in English! One of the major landmarks of Barcelona and they do it in English? Crazy.

We went up to Mount Serrat and saw a statute carved by Saint Luke. We also walked down to the cave where shepherds found the statue in 880 AD. That afternoon we drove down the Spanish coast and ended up having dinner in Calafat, a little over an hour down the coast.

The next day we drove to Lourdes, France. We stopped off in Andorra, another small country in the Pyrannes between France and Spain. It looks like all you can do in Andorra is shop and ski. They had some snow there, even this late in May. More amazingly, they had cheap booze. I have never seen a 3 liter bottle of Jack, but they sold them for 45 Euros, about $60. Other stuff was much cheaper, like a liter of Absolute for $10. I could not find any beer from Andorra, but I did find one in a blue bottle from Argentina.

For those of you that are not Trekkies, Andorian Ale is a blue drink that is favored by Andorians, the blue skinne people with little antennae...

Quilmes - Not great, but probably would tast better if it were colder. Best Argentininan beer I have ever had. Also the worst.

Quilmes