Clare Byrne

I mean, look, where I am now today, Covadonga, right, which you mentioned earlier, that is going way back, you know, there was a Marian shrine there.

It's where the reconquest of Spain, I suppose, started when you go back to when the Moors were here, when Spain started to become Christian again, it started here.

So there's fabulous history here.

There's the Marian Shrine here, which is, again, going way back, you know, when they found a sort of a well here.

And there's massive pilgrims come here as well to the Marian Shrine.

There's the Virgin of Covadonga, which is absolutely stunning.

It's in a cave.

So again, for me, this is lovely, Clare, because it's all new and it's all really fresh.

You know, when you think of Yellowstone Park in America or somewhere like these national parks,

This was 1916, 1918, they started the first national park here, the Picos de Europa.

And over 30% of this region here in Asturias is all protected biospheres.

And I remember telling you before, there's actually brown bears here in the mountains as well.

So that'll give you an idea how clean and the air is and everything is fresh.

Yeah, there's a different mix.

I mean, there was loads of different people coming over on the flight over.

Now, there was people doing it themselves, that people had kind of researched it and they had backpacks with them and they were just going to do it sort of, you know, very sort of hostel-y, refugio.

So there's totally, there's loads of different options.

But here they have lovely like little boutique hotels like where we stayed last night.

Now you have lovely little hotels

pools and, you know, it's got all these natural springs.