Swedish Nerd Vs. The World

Let’s make this into a Benjamin Button story and begin from the end. About 2-3 years ago me and my friend Andreas went to Marseilles mostly to get as close to Monaco as possible, but I will tell you about Monaco at another time. I had heard so many good things about the French Riviera and I thought Marseilles was a part of it, but I would quickly find out it wasn’t. We arrived late at night at the Saint Charles train station with the bus from the airport and on the way to the hotel we saw a worn-down city with dog shit everywhere and lots of homeless people and this wasn’t the view I had expected since I had image searched the Riviera. We went straight to bed in the hotel in separate rooms which looked more like prison cells and it always feels so weird to be in a new place without being able to get a feel of where you are before you go to bed. I couldn’t sleep that well and the next day we went straight to Monaco so I was still confused about Marseilles, but I knew one thing, I ...

I was stressed out at work and about modern life in general and I thought to myself, where can I go where there’s absolutely nothing to do? I came to think about Andorra being one of the smallest countries in Europe, and it should be the perfect vacation for doing nothing as its known as a hiking and spa resort. I feel small in one of Europes smallest countries When me and my girlfriend Felicia first arrived by bus from Barcelona I was struck by one of the most beautiful sceneries I’ve ever seen. Andorra La Vella which is the capital (as many as 22 000 people live there) is in a valley between endless mountains and we were going to stay at a hotel at one of the higher points in the valley. We had a balcony out to the city, and there was a rooftop pool and a tennis court on the roof as well. In other word it was exactly what I needed. It was freezing cold in the water but I'm a Swede so I'm used to it We started walking the small main street which went strai...