Although I lived the first 25 years of my life less than an hour away from the Canadian border, I have never visited that fine country. Until this weekend, the same was true of my new northern neighbor, Andorra. Well, no more. This weekend we hopped in the ol’ family truckster and drove across the border into the land of mountains, valleys, and private banking.

(Private banking not included in the image gallery below, for obvious reasons.)

Hotel Nòrdic

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Smell that fresh mountain air

I knew sitting was bad, but I didn’t know that every time I sat down a terrifying shadow beast creeps up behind me. I guess that’s because when I turn around, I am doing a small bit of exercise, which reduces the time that I’m just sitting. Hence the lack of shadow beasts when I look behind me.

Thanks go to Michael Smith for scaring me out of my chair.

The media here in Europe has shown us a disappointingly one-sided picture of American reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden. The New York Times has gathered a more balanced collection of reactions and let the authors plot them on a graph. The x-axis runs from Negative to Positive and the y- from Insignificant to Significant.