SANTANDER SPAIN - A Cove of Treasure in the North
hola migente adventure elliot here it is july 25th and as you can see i'm still in madrid but only for a few more minutes because i'm escaping the oven-like heat of madrid and heading north back to cantabria and santander i'm excited i'm going to film a video in santander and show you guys what i didn't show you in the last summer's video in santander so stay tuned i'm catching my blah blah car you guys know i love blah blah car so uh i'll see you next in santander well you guys i'm back in santander almost a year later it's a fresh 20 degrees celsius about 68 degrees fahrenheit man it feels so good to be back fresh ocean atlantic ocean air we have the guy fishing here and so i'm gonna go uh check into my hostel but uh my plan for this video is to show you guys uh what i did not show you on the video i did in santander last year i got a lot of heat in that video for not showing the palacio de magdalena and playa sarinero are apparently two of the best and most iconic sites of the city so this is uh where i started the video last year we have uh the this is a museum art cultural center and we have this bay here where fairies and boats come across there's the village or city of somo over there and some great beaches and man it's just great to be back in santander so my first impressions you guys of santander is everybody's wearing jackets long sleeves and here i am with shorts the ghiri but not everyone's wearing jackets but it's because it's 20 degrees it's fresquito as they say in spanish so good morning you guys uh i had a great night sleep last night at that hostel you just saw and i'm back in santander like i said earlier and i'm walking in these neighborhoods here and i'm on my way to the palacio de magdalena and after that playa sardinero which is the best beach in santander and one of the reasons i'm going there to these two places because the first video i made in santander everyone left in the comments saying why didn't you go to those places well at the time i was totally exhausted from the camino de santiago and these neighborhoods here are so cool look at this santander is like on a peninsula like kind of like a little hilly peninsula and to get around the city you have to go up and down a lot of hills and so i was just totally exhausted from the community santiago the previous 10 or 12 days i had walked from san sebastian hasta santander so i was revantaro but uh nonetheless i'm back in santander to restart the camino de santiago and as such i'm gonna go explore this part of santander and give you a proper video as requested by you guys so just check this out this neighborhood here i'm not sure what it's called but santander has such a nice relaxing feel postville of course you hear the seagulls because you know you're near the the ocean the atlantic ocean the north atlantic ocean the cantabrian sea and it has a nice humid actually a little bit sticky air but it's not the same as that central uh peninsula peninsular heat that you feel in madrid in andalusia and castilla e leon etc so man there's just a lot to explore here in this neighborhood and people from santander in my experience very nice of course they speak very pure spanish here castallano pudo they have a very nice accent i love the accent spoken by the people in this part of spain so let's keep going along here and we're gonna get to the palacio and thereafter the best beach in santander playa sardinia so as i said there's lots of hills here you can climb so this looks like an interesting place to go up we have some stairs here so let's go up these stairs and see what i can find and so like i mentioned uh i'm resuming the camino de santiago my rough plans are to go from here in santander through the rest of cantabria and all the little towns along the northern coast uh that you encounter santiana del mar uh janes etc so i'll be going to asturias as well just check out this yard here everything's so green up here you guys it's so beautiful being up here in the summer is great and getting to rihon and if i have time i will continue into galicia well looks like this is a dead end well like i said that was a dead end so i had to go a different route so now like i said a hilly city we're going downhill here and uh if i can get all the way to santiago i will but if i don't no worries because the way the community santiago works is you basically do what you can you know if that's 100 kilometers that's 200 300 you do what works for you based on your resources how you feel your time and so that's what's gonna happen i'm just gonna enjoy the rest of july and the beginning of august bueno diaz i'm gonna enjoy the rest of uh my time here in summer it's very precious the north and summer i mean just look at it and we'll see what happens we'll see what happens but i i'm gonna try to film everything i can just like i did when i first started my channel and i know people love the community santiago it's a different vibe it's not a party mode maybe i'll have some cider along the way sun sidra as they call in spanish but it's not a party you know like when i go to uh balaga that's a party and so this is sort of my escape this is my escape my detox so to speak and you can see the ocean up there you guys just check that out that's a bay that crosses into the other part uh and i came here on a ferry last year that was like two euros and yeah guys i'm just gonna enjoy it and bring you guys along the way with me i don't know if i'll be able to uh publish videos on the regular but i'll do what i can and of course in english and spanish so let's continue along we're getting close to the famous palace so the center of santander is that way a couple kilometers and you can see that in the first video i'll link it above and in the description but we're going a different way and we look across the bay there that is the town of somo somo and you just see the cantabrian mountains in the background and if you come here on the community santiago uh if you can't if you came from the east that is you're gonna cross these mountains and it's one of the most gorgeous days of the whole hike i also have a video showing that and i titled that the road to santander i'll link that and man like you walk along these cliffs and you look down and you see the ocean and there's just mist rising from the waves it's very green and it is just out of this world unlike anything i've ever experienced and look at a lot of these people in northern spain they have their own gardens like everywhere everyone has gardens i'm just absolutely enamored with this part of spain so much i mean i know i say that wherever i go but the the the la varieta espana the variation of spain and the geography is just phenomenal and what makes it unique is that yes it's a rather large country for european standards but you can get to all parts of spain on bus and train and plane in a short amount of time in a place like the united states that obviously has unique geography itself um you can't get to the west coast from the east coast in a matter of hours you know so you have to take a plane and it's costly or you gotta drive the infrastructure is just not on par with europe no offense but just look at that in the background you guys that is that's this is why i come to northern spain this is why thousands of others come up here on vacation and it's less traveled to as well look at these houses you know you're thinking of real estate in southern spain costa del sol why not think of some of these places up here in the north look at this they got a great view and it doesn't get too cold here in the winter has that maritime climate i mean you see the palm trees it doesn't get below freezing seldom and it doesn't get above uh 30 degrees celsius so what can't really go wrong all right so we're approaching the palace it's getting closer and closer you can just tell leading up to it this isn't the palace but you're going to want to watch until the end of this video to see the palace and just check out these views it's clearing up here wow you guys as they say in spain spanish wow yes this is what i'm talking about right here palacio de la magdalena so i think that uh it's actually closed during the week or at least to get a tour you have to pay i think five euros but as you see people are still going down here so i think we are going to be able to get at least a view of what it looks like from the outside and if we can we will explore a little bit so we have uh resinto so this this is like a little mini peninsula on the bigger peninsula here and down this way is the palacio but it looks like they've turned this area into a place for concerts for events etc etc etc so we're here as i said and this is what it looks like now and this is the palace and i'm gonna do a walk around and then go to the beach nearby but yeah you see there's a sports zone here and it's a little peninsula within a peninsula so the tourists are out today including myself to come see the famous palacio de la magdalena so let's continue along here in this park and i believe the palace is up this way canary island palm tree wow okay this has given me similar vibes to the castle that i explored in san sebastian last year i have a video on that too madrid see wow just check out the palace here so let me uh give you some short history here about the palace construction started in 1909 so beginning of the 20th century there and it finished in 1911 what a quick construction for that time and king alfonso the 13th and his family the royal family would spend time here and then they would continually spend time here as a summer escape until 1931 when the second republic took power and what happened is they stopped coming here and this kind of became a different place and then later on in the 20th century they restored it to what it looks like now quite impressive architecture here and i can only imagine the views from up there are so great uh and now uh at the end of the 20th century and 21st century now it's obviously a tourist site you can go and take tours inside but nonetheless very beautiful and uh impressive here's what the views look like obviously not as good as if you were up there in the tower but man this gopro really captures the palace's wide view and so like i said when i first filmed the video here in santander i didn't come here i was too exhausted to keep walking to the end of the peninsula and i of course missed this but i'm here and i'm glad i came back and i'm glad that you guys can see this so just soaking up the views and of course these ladies gotta come here for the instagram and enjoy the palace now like i said i don't think it's open during the weeks to go do tours on the inside but if you're photogenic definitely come to this place and get some pictures for the instagram i mean that's what it's all about here in 2021 furthermore if you're coming to get some great views in santander maybe not of the city but of the landscape here is uh the best place i think to uh capture those views just look at that so on the road to santander the video i made i was walking along those cliffs there in the distance to somo over there where i took a ferry across the bay here and i remember seeing this palace in the ferry but i didn't know how to get there and like i said i was too tired but we're back we're back guess who's back back again adventure elliott tell your friends now with santander being along the coast here of coastal city in the northern part of spain it's only fitting that we have some replicas of some smaller ships here interesting look at this and these ones quite fascinating these uh these boats here i wonder from what time in history were these boats i have no idea but not anything modern of course so playa sardinero is right up here you guys let's go check it out interestingly enough there's some uh seals down here some focus and look at they come up to greet you pretty friendly guys look at them they have their little natural pool here and just another little attraction in this park here uh in santander parque hey bucks wacky books mekipo campiones campiones here we go behind us we have playa sardinero and look at it what's nice about these beaches here in northern spain is they're so wide the tide goes so low and it comes so high during high and low tide and the sand is so fine so soft and white and you know when you're in the mediterranean in the coastal del sol a lot of times the beaches are narrow and rocky um so maybe we should go do a walk down on the beach and sort of maybe end the video there on this uh second video from santander from the better half and yeah just like i said that nice fine white sand it feels so good on the feet nice little massage so let's take a little walk along the famous playa sardine wow you can see the tide and the day comes all the way up here and it goes down where those you know where the people are bathing in the low tide so quite quite a difference with the atlantic ocean or i guess the cantabrian sea here in terms of the high and low tide now if you remember in cadiz i was out in that castle there and i jumped off the bridge during high tide but during low tide it was totally exposed so you could definitely not jump off the bridge there so tides are interesting thing from a geographic standpoint so in santander instead of going to the gym for exercise you come to the beach for a morning walk i mean just absolutely full of uh walkers here getting their daily walk-in nice exercise and up here we have it looks like a surf school the waves aren't you know quite big enough to uh surf here but the kids can get their bearings and if you want some real surfing you just go to the other side across the bay to somo it's called and the waves are absolutely massive there and other places along this northern coast have great surfing along with portugal i think some of the best surfing in all of europe in the continental europe is here in northern spain and in portugal in fact some places in portugal the waves are are too big for any amateur and even too big for some professionals quite dangerous but i can't remember the name but man if you're a surfing fan come up here to northern spain and if you just want to enjoy the the coastline as well like this like you see hundreds of other people doing right now come up here for a nice morning walk well you guys i thought i was gonna end the video back at that beach but it's a very nice sunny day here in santander and i'm grabbing some delicious tacos here it's been a while since i had tacos and so i think it would be a good idea to continue the video and uh walk to some of the overlooks of the city and give you a view of the city that last year when i came here it was cloudy we couldn't see the same stuff so let's go ahead there after i eat these tacos so let's continue along a little uh urban tour now of santander you guys this city has so many cool little spots to explore and as i said i'm gonna go up to that mirador which is an outlook where i can get a better view of the city and then end the video there but wow i love this city of santander the city's got a lot to offer and quite interesting architecture certainly different than the center part the southern part of spain and as you saw that palacio earlier that was not spanish architecture there and any of you architecture people can you guys tell me what influenced this uh here and uh these buildings here because i'm pretty fascinated by this stuff hmm so there's these escalators right here in the middle of the city that help you uh of course go up and go down and there's what's called the furnicular just like a little cable car and i think that's where these people are going so i'll join them wendy yeah well i finally made it to the place that i wanted to show you to end the video and do the city views justice here in santander cantabria northern spain just check out these views here of the city in the ocean in the distance this is where all the ships come through and there's a port over there and the city of santander and if you look way into the distance that's the cantabrian coastline and eventually you would get to pais vasco or basque country and then from there you would get to the pyrenees mountains and the border of france and so if you're thinking of coming to spain you know you're putting on your checklist toledo sevilla cordoba the costa del sol well do yourself a favor and at least look into northern part of spain it's sort of off the beaten path to some degree when you compare it to the other parts of spain and totally worth it and so uh i'm gonna head back down to the hostel and edit this video for you guys but my next steps are the camino de santiago i'm gonna go westward through the rest of cantabria asturias and eventually galicia and so i hope you guys like this video join me on the community santiago you're going to see a lot of these little villages into the countryside and mountainsides and you're going to see a lot of interesting coastal cities and lots of beaches so stay tuned adventure elliot piecing out i'll see you guys in the next video hasta luego
2021-08-02 01:34
