DID WE FIND A RIVER MOTORWAY?! | Canoeing the Sella River - Van Life

We have a really exciting day planned today. We are canoeing down this river for the next few hours and I'm really excited. We'll be zooming. I would have thought we were going that way. No, are you silly? What? You go downstream of it. Yeah, that looks like it cuts down. No it's not. Where's it starting, the river? That way? Yeah, but where? Like, it's in Picos de Europa, isn't it? Yeah. And where's it going down to? The ocean. Yeah, and which way's the ocean? We are running a little bit late, but should be fine. But at least it's all, oh, this is even nicer down here. It's really pretty. Well, it said it was going to be busy, but I think this is taking the mick. Oh my God, look at that. That is ridiculous. That's going to be ours. We completely missed it, but we just went down a ramp on there. Martha's got it on her phone, so I might just show that footage. We've just swapped, because quite frankly, I don't know how to turn. And there's a lot of people. Oh, Mitch, Mitch, you're going to stroke someone. Oh, and again, I'm going to get in. Sorry. Oh my God. I think the river's busier than the road. Honestly, when I say this is like the most chaotic thing ever. Mitch just said there was no chance of us falling off and we literally just nearly tipped off because we just aimed for a rock. At this point, I think it's harder to avoid the people than the rocks. It actually makes it more fun to be in people because you have to dodge them. Yeah, it is. We're going for the... Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, yeah. Oh, no, no. Oh, you're going to hit them. Sorry. I can't get past. Mitch, you just... Oh, he's so close. No, he's crashing into me. So Mitch is being so mischievous right now and is just playing on everyone's weaknesses. But yeah, all that he's doing is seeing when people are stuck and then pushing them back to where they were stuck, which is very mean. But also it's mean what you're doing. No, it's not. It's hilarious. But it's very funny. They go over there. Mitch is being very mischievous right now. So we've stopped for a minute to have a dip. We don't know how far down the river we are and how long it really goes for. Look how much carnage is going on right now. I can't explain how much fun I'm having. Are we really going to have to go and swim with them to make it out in the water? That's where I want to go, but we might have to join in with them. What? Look at them wrestling. That's what real love looks like. I wouldn't know. This is absolute chaos. Oh, my God. Come on, Mark, you can sort us. He wants to go under this tree. I don't know how I feel about it. We are not going to fit. The camera is upside down. They can stop that. But you should never canoe and drive. No, drink and canoe. Drink and paddle. Drink and paddle. You should never drink and paddle, kids. I don't know if they're going to jump or not. This might be weird to say, but I'm cold. You are. There's something wrong with you. Oh, I'm getting shivers. Oh, stop. Oh, my God. Oh, shoot. Oh, shoot. Oh, Mitch. Mitch, Mitch, Mitch. Everyone's going over. Wow. That was very chaotic all of a sudden. She's hanging on for dear life. She's hanging on for dear life. Oh, my God. Oh, Amanda, Amanda. Is it there? Hello. Is it your sandal? No, she's too raging to even realise that she's lost her sandal. I'm going to keep it in case they come past. OK. And ask them. We've been going for three hours. We didn't bring any lunch, which was a rookie error, because it's quarter past three. But, yeah, the views have been absolutely incredible. And we thought we'd see our camp spot, but we've not seen it yet, have we? No, I think it might be, because this cliffside here, that's what I would have gotten drone yesterday, I think. Right, OK. So, I think we're not far. We're getting close. I've decided after I've been grafting for three hours, I deserve a relax. So, Morph is doing a bit. I wonder how long we can go without crashing. Oh. No, wrong one. Stick the right down. No. Morph, we're going to crash. No, it's all gone feet tall. We've finally found our camp spot. This is where we were earlier. Three kilometres left until we get there. It takes ten minutes in a car, or approximately four and a bit hours in a canoe. So, it's definitely thinned out a lot now. There's not that many people in the water compared to a few hours ago. But we're on the final stretch. We're nearly there. It's actually quite peaceful now. We've made it. We've finally got to the end. Did you enjoy yourself? Yeah, I did. I just wish we'd have taken some food. Yeah. When was the last time you ate? About ten-ish? Yeah, that's quite a long time, isn't it? Yeah, and it's now twenty-five to five. So, I'm... Well, I'm past the point of hunger. Can you tell? No, you look like you're better. Thanks. Hopefully, someone in a minute will take us back to the van. No, you have to walk. So, one thing that's amazing about the fact that we've done this today is that I saw on the website that they've got hot showers. And when I went to the toilet earlier, I saw them. They're like communal. But if it's hot, we haven't had a hot shower in like over three weeks. So, we're going to get some stuff now and obviously use them. I mean, you showered yesterday, but we're going to obviously take advantage of it. Oh, yeah. See you in a bit. That was genuinely the nicest shower I've ever had. Probably the nicest. Well, no, but in the past month, that's probably one of the nicest showers. It was so hot. Mine was too hot. Yeah, I literally had it scalding. Was there other people in with you? Yeah, some bloke borrowed my shower gel. Oh, did he? He was trying to ask me to borrow his shower gel in Spanish. And he was like, I think he's talking about me to me. Were you in there in your shorts? No. No, you weren't in. Some women were there. I was in there by myself. But then a couple of people were coming in and out in their bikinis. But I just stripped everything off. I've never done that before. We're all humans, we've all got the same boots. It was actually really freeing. All in all, that was bang on, wasn't it? Oh, yeah. So it was 20 euros altogether per person. And we've been here since midday. And it's now 20 past five. It's good, isn't it? Normally places like this just rip you off. Yeah, and free parking. So we're going to have some food here. Bus shuttle, hot shower. You literally can't moan. And you could have spent so much longer if you'd have taken food with you. But we didn't take anything. So you could stop off and there was bars and stuff. So, yeah, really recommend it. But now we're going to eat because I'm starving. I can't explain to you how fresh I feel. I genuinely feel like this is the cleanest I've been this whole trip so far. And I don't know if that's... I think that is because of the hot water. I don't know, I just feel like it's... cleansed me. And I was just saying that we had a really good day anyway. And then that shower at the end was just like the cherry on top. So we're on our way into Pico de Europa. Picos. I keep muttering everything. Picos de Europa. But we're just trying one of these car parks now to hopefully just stay the night because you can. So we've set up outside the van hidden by the doors to be as discreet as poss. Although you could probably smell us from the front of the car park. So we're trying to make enchiladas. But I don't know how it's going to go because we don't have a lid, nor do we have an oven. But we've got the chicken here. And then we've got peppers, onions and enchilada sauce. When you don't have an oven you improvise. I'm so proud of myself right now. This is so good. Consider we've done it on a car park as well. With one pan? Yeah. That's my quesadilla recipe. If anyone wants it. It's enchiladas, mate. This is my enchilada recipe. If anyone wants it and you're really nice, I'll give you it for free. Otherwise it's two pound apiece. That is unreal. So good. I don't like to toot my own horn, right? I've had Mexican at a lot of places. Mexican's my favourite dish. But this is the best Mexican thing I've ever tasted in my life. Really? Yeah. But even from a restaurant? Yeah. Even the dog and partridge for you? Dog and partridge, lower teen. Sorry. Out of the water, mate. I wish my mate Daz was here now so he could tell me if it's actually nice or not. Well, we know it's nice. Dariano Mexicano. I need you to taste this.