One of the things I’ve been doing of late in order to save my sanity, whilst I joust with all things formatting to get Prelude up and running, has been watching Youtube videos.
I have a couple of favourite channels, one of which is The Narrowboat Experience, which chronicles the experiences of two young women, (and their cats, Munchie – the grey lad at the beginning of the video, and Alice, who is black and has black cat ‘tude) as they live full-time on their narrowboat, and traverse the canal system of Britain.
They usually post once a week-ish, (sometimes more, occasionally less) and I settle back with a pot of tea and indulge their adventures, or if I have the time I go back through their archives to where it all began, to their very first video.
Today they posted about their trip across the Pontcycsyllte Aqueduct, across the River Dee in Wales, on their way to LLangollen. The aqueduct is very, very, narrow and very, very high, as you will see…
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Very very awesome. It’s such a quiet and beautiful journey through nature.
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Even when they’re boating (floating?) through towns there’s still that aura of being underneath the open skies. 🙂
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Are you from the UK? I saw a show on netflix about those canals before where a lady bought one and renovated and was living on it. I saw them in 2 different tv series. If you live there will you say more about them? If you don’t I’m going to try to find out more…
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Nope, firmly anchored in Canada. 😀 … good luck with your research. It seems like an adventurous way to live. 🙂
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Don’t you have something similar up in Canada, the St. Lawrence Seaway? I know of people who have sailed their boats through there to the Atlantic, and that’s about all I know of it 🙂
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Possibly. Not my part of town though. 😀
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I think my memory failed me. Do you live by that haunted castle? If not, my memory has gone down the tubes. Sorry!
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No haunted house here, unfortunately. 🙂
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I’m batting a thousand. Anyway….
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Sounds like a good watch for saving sanity … always fancied a narrowboat…
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Ah yes, the romance of the high … inland waterways. 😀 … it would be a blast though.
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It would… but probably much harder work than it looks 😉 Not that I would mind that.
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I think the good stuff would certainly outweigh the bits of hard work, the best thing being you could do it all at your own pace … dependant on wind’n’weather, as usual. 🙂
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That’s what attracts me the most… the speed 🙂
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Heh, we’re such a couple of rev-heads! 😀
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What fun! A tiny house on the water.
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An 18 meter (60′) long, tiny house 🙂 … I don’t think I could do it full-time, but it does look like quite the adventure though.
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If I had that kind of physical energy! That’s hard work. I’d be useless.
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They’ve put up videos where they’ve had to go through a whole bunch of locks in one day … not for me either … maybe 30 or 40 years ago. 😀
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I can see getting absorbed in these types of shows. A brain vacation. 🙂
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It’d be a great way to see the ‘other side’ of the countryside, and towns and cities. 😀
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I have crossed the Pontcycsyllte Aqueduct and still don’t know how to spell or pronounce it! It was when I was 21 and meant to be back in Australia – I cadged a spare berth with my friend and her family going on a 2 week canal holiday. I love narrow boats and canals, but have never been on another such holiday. I don’t like heights, well not heights with lots of space underneath – but luckily I had no idea what we were going to go over! Canals are a great way to see the country.
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I’ve decided to just say, ‘Ponty’ 😀
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FANTASTIC, CHINA
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A great adventure, by a couple of great adventurers. 🙂
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We have lived on the water once a long time ago. We discovered that locks are impossible if it’s raining, so avoided them like the plague. I could live on a static houseboat though…
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The locks look a bit daunting to me too, and I like the idea of a houseboat, but I’d miss having a garden and walking on the earth outside my front door. 🙂
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No you wouldn’t. Like me, you would have a wonderful garden on the Bank! Best of both worlds!
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Heh, heh, heh, true … or have one of those flat pontoon/dock thingys tied up to the houseboat and have a garden on that! 😀
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Even better!
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An attractive gentle way of living/travelling from a bygone age ( a bit cramped for me)
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Me too. I like a little more breadth. 🙂 … it seems that licences to live permanently on the canals are increasing. Mobile (skinny) apartments anyone? 😀 … and it is perfect if you have an income that isn’t dependent on a static location.
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Fascinating! Thanks for posting this video.
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You’re welcome 🙂 … they’re quite an extraordinary pair of adventurers. 🙂
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Thanks for the share. 😀
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Thanks for sharing. They’re lifestyle is so cool.
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Floating gypsies. 😀
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