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I first fell in love with Andorra in winter 2013/2014 when i had a week holiday in Valnord, the whole place is so family friendly and great access. The following season 2014/2015 i put down a deposit on a flat in Soldeu, pack my car and drove 1500 miles across 6 countries in 4 days to live out the dream of a ski season. No job sorted but i had a flat, some money and a car... or so i thought! My car blew up 20km from our flat!! Being it was a month before the ski season started there…

Top of Pradalago lift has some great blue runs for beginners and a couple of reds. One black which is not difficult as it was wide, empty and plenty of snow. You can buy either a Madonna ski pass or an all areas pass - the difference is about 4 euros per day. Easy connections from top of Pradalago to ski down to Folgarida or across to the Cinque Laghi gondola. From the top of the Cinque Laghi gondola you can either ski down half way where there are other connections to runs on the same…

La Tzoumaz is part of the Quatres Vallees ski area, connected to better-known Verbier by pistes and lifts but significantly cheaper. Its a relatively high base station at 1500m. With about 50Kms of north-facing pistes and, snow permitting, a 10Km toboggan run, its an intermediates area, although there is a heliport where adrenalin-junkies are lifted to and from the glacier skiing. Its probably best suited to on-piste intermediates rather than learners or off-piste hounds and would suit…