Summer in Spain - a Socially Distanced Holiday

Okay and welcome to Spain. Some of you would have seen in the previous video that I flew across here to come and see my mum who has spent the whole of lockdown here while I've been back in the UK with the other side of my family. It's just changed this week so before I was able to fly here and then I would be able to fly back no problems and then the UK government announced out of nowhere that they're now doing the two-week quarantine so if I fly back now I'll be back within the quarantine so I'm staying here and instead I'm gonna enjoy this time with my mum and then decide what's happening after that. I don't know yet but for now I'm here. One cool thing we did get to do though which was completely even though like Spain's kind of still coming out of lockdown everyone's wearing masks but for the most part everything is open and people are getting back to normal we did manage to do something that is a little bit abnormal because I'm gonna obviously you're gonna see in the rest of this video but just to kind of frame it for you my mum's been a little bit anxious about coming out of lockdown as a lot of people have so I decided rather than going to the crowded beaches with all the other tourists that were coming here we'd go somewhere a bit more out in nature do some camping and get up into the hills and have a more socially distanced type holiday so that's what you're going to see next hope you enjoy and yeah that's it I'm in Spain thanks for watching that's the end of the video enjoy good morning welcome back to Spain where are we heading? We're going up to the Aspuna, the mountains in southern Spain yeah there's a national park called Sierra Aspuna and we're going there to go camping for two days we are so excited it was my mum's birthday a couple days ago so for that and for like her kind of birthday weekend we are going to a log cabin in the national park there's going to be some good places to hike there I kind of thought it would be a nice place to go for a bit of a break that's not surrounded by people you're not in crowds you can do the whole distance thing and still get to see a place I've never been before. Sound good? Yeah it sounds fantastic! So exciting! You've been here for like years right? You've never been up here? I've never been up here oh listen to those cicadas and this is our cabin it's not bad yeah honestly I like it and to get out somewhere like this and just be able to walk around the hills and be a bit more nature and be free to walk around do what you want that's exactly what I want right now we've come for two days of camping and mum's bought that many tins oh well come on there's no thing nothing up here so it's the right thing to do yeah it's nice though a little cabin I like it do you want the bottom or top? Bottom I don't think my legs are leaving the pit that's fine actually I was watching you in the pit save the planet so for a bit of context we were originally thinking about doing the Camino in the north of Spain which is this really long walk and you get thousands of people doing it normally you stay in hostels and you just walk together and then party together in the evening but obviously because of this because the situation we're in that might not be the best thing to do right now and my mum wasn't completely comfortable with it no I just felt maybe socially I was being a bit irresponsible and my anxiety was quite low about traveling on a plane and a coach and walking in many many different places so we've decided to change the plan yeah so this is our Camino instead I'm going to do a bit of a walk around here instead another time another day I'll do the Camino in the north and for now we're going to walk around we've found our first wildlife here you see the mantis David Bellamy? Who's that? That's who you were trying to do wasn't it? David Attenborough? No David Bellamy he's the guy that does a lot of the animals as well and he goes oh I'm going to tell you about the animals. I was going for David Attenborough I guess that shows it wasn't very good then I'll show you later I talked about the animals and the birds in the trees it's generational difference though and he's actually he's exactly the same when he was found. He's taking me down to the spider city and you see the spider web here the hole it's a funnel oh yeah oh there he is we definitely didn't go the way we were trying to go but we have found another viewpoint so Swings and Roundabouts which is English for when some you lose some we got somewhere found a viewpoint even if it's not the right one good hike yeah it's like a mystery tour yeah happy we're not doing eight hours of that every day I think so I think an hour of this is more than enough in this intense heat yeah yeah it is the end of July so it's like I think it's 35 today or something we waited until it's like 5 p.m so we waited until it was a bit cooler but it's still hot out for another quick hike this morning we've actually found a much better path this time around this is the Transmercia hiking route we just found using an app a way better way of doing and just walk in for a couple of hours do this no masks when you're doing exercise by the way which is good right now which is why would you need a mask being out in the middle of the woods like this what do you think there's lasers down there yeah wow this is proper outdoor stuff we are going to the top we won't stop until we stop nice double rhyme we were looking for a viewpoint for this lake and definitely went the wrong way it's very difficult to drive up here but mum did very well driving when we got here yeah sometimes you've got to work hard for things you want it's true good work yeah this is definitely worth it look at this view and it looks like hardly anyone comes here there's nothing really set up there's no like cafe or observation point or anything just a dirt road to get up to this why do you think no one comes here because the track is empty it's like a one of those wacky racist races and no one would go up apart from your mum okay so that's why it's like this is we're just about to leave now it's been a solid two nights here in camping sierra espuna like i said at the beginning never been here before my mum's lived in spain for years now i've never been here but we decided it would be a good place to come to in what we can call the current climate like my mom's been a little bit anxious about being around people again that's i guess a lot of people have because you know you've been on lockdown it's been so strict for a while so to be out in the open air like this and just go hiking and be in nature seemed like the perfect antidote to that what do you reckon mum it's been a good couple days it's been a fantastic few days able to take our masks off because we're exercising and just um beautiful scenery yeah and like it's kind of nicer being away from the beaches and away from people yeah because i think there's still a level of anxiety i think um even when you're walking down the street you're trying to avoid people so being in that in such an open space is just great because you don't even have to think about it and that's you know and that's a bit of a gift at the moment yeah yeah it has been cool it's been great to be out here it's been a new place for both of us some good camping you know good mum and son time it's always important we're calling it camping but we're in a cabin but that's all good and we had beans that's that's what you need to make it camping uh we're gonna finish now because we're gonna drive back and i've still got some more videos coming from here and from wherever else i head to next after spain so see you then thanks again for watching see you in the next one you need to say like to like and subscribe yeah you need to say like it's what youtubers do so you say remember to like and subscribe oh okay remember next time i'll say it now yeah oh you have to remember to like and subscribe and ring that bell ring that bell push that button there you go