Last year, during the carnival holidays, I went to a place called Lívia in Spain with a large group of people from my town. Lívia is a Spanish enclave in France, in the Pyrenees area. We went by car to Sevilla and then got on a plane which took us to Barcelona. From there, we rented 3 vans and then drove to Lívia. There, we stayed in a very cozy small hotel that was almost filled with just our group of people.
Lívia is an old village and it has that feeling of a cozy old mountain village with wooden huts and stone houses. It’s really something else. This village, in particular, isn’t the most visited place in the area, but still is a great place to be, as it sits in the middle of several amazing ski resorts, some in France and some in Spain.
We went there not really to visit the village, but to go to the ski resorts and have fun! In the village, we rented our ski and snowboard gear, and the next day, we got up early and went to a ski resort in a French part of the Pyrenees called Les Angles. That day it was not as cold as we expected. We could even be on the mountain without our jackets! The next day we went to another French ski resort: Font Romeu, but I still didn’t enjoy it as much as I should because I was still learning how to snowboard, as so was my brother. The next 2 days we went to Masella, this one is situated in the Spanish part of the Pyrenees, and it was amazing. The ski resort had plenty of space for everyone to ride down the mountain comfortably. It also had a snow park where you could try to take some dangerous jumps and slides. On the last day, we went to La Molina which was very nearby Masella. We could even ski or snowboard from one resort to another! Besides the fun in the snow, I also loved the traditional food. It was so tasty!
Well, I basically loved everything on this trip. The food was amazing, the snowboarding experience was awesome, the people were always nice, and Lívia was an incredibly beautiful village which I hope to come back to, soon.
By Afonso Gouveia
