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Sheep Tobacco Wireless Mast. Andorra the train ran
out of track, it was a slow train like something out of a
cowboy film. I was using travellers cheques, Thomas
Cook to be precise little realising the trouble they would
cause.
Andorra is a principality controlled by the french one
year and the spanish the next year. It is custom duties
free. Andorra the train approached the principality and
came to a halt close to the border, we had to get off the
train.
I then started to walk little realising it would last all
night. There were goat bells in the mountains and thats
all I heard all night. I fell off a cliff during the walk and
nearly smashed my ankle. Travelling at night is a
difficult business.
Cutting across country as the altitude signs told me I
was getting nowhere. Mile after mile the countryside
rolled by following the railway lines and the lighthouse
in Barcelona. The dawn broke and I forgot to mention
that the nights were cold in Andorra so I had to keep
walking to keep warm.
I was wearing a demon shirt and jeans, a customs
officer was sighted on the spanish border. The local
people refused to cash my travellers cheques and I had
run out of pesetas. I caught a train the next day, I had
no money because you could either pay when you got
on the train or when you got off. The guard was going
to throw me off the train as I had no ticket.
A basque paid my fare , he was on holiday with his
family. Finally Barcelona approached and I cashed my
cheques at the bank and offered to pay the basque
back but he refused. So I said give the money to the
two kids but he refused again. I forgot to mention that
the walk in the mountains I was hallucinating, a sign of
mental exhaustion. Anyway I travelled back the Salou
and flew back to England the next day.
