Travels by Narrowboat - "A Canal Less Travelled" - S10E01
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2025
- Welcome to the first episode of Season 10 of Travels by Narrowboat. This time round, Aslan and I will be exploring canals both old and new to the series, as we first travel the remaining 7 miles from Marston Junction on the Coventry Canal, to the terminus at Coventry Basin, in Coventry.
Then through Season 10, we revisit the northern section of the Oxford Canal from Hawkesbury Junction to Braunston, and then journey along the south Oxford Canal for the first time, to the city of Oxford itself.
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Aslan’s engine is one of the most soothing sounds I have ever heard
Asmr black screen for all of these would be fantastic for bedtime. First time thru I watch, repeats are to just relax and ride along and drift off. ❤
You need to listen to a Gardner 5 pot.
This is one of the very few channels that I will NOT listen to at a faster speed
It’s so odd watching you go past my house, my old school, the pub I drink in and the canal I’ve walked countless times with my dog.
One of my mates lives in one of the blocks of flats you went past, my dad used to work at one of the factories you went past.
So glad to see you back.
Many elements have kept me watching since the beginning , including your sense of humor. "If there weren't fish they'd be enjoying a rather boring hobby" killed me! Cheers
"A canal less traveled," and that has made all the difference. Truer words were never spoken. ;-)
You've alluded to my favorite poet, Robert Frost. Takes me happily back to growing up in New England. Leigh, now in Texas
Thanks for the gentle journey, Kevin. Looking forward to season 10. Leigh
Pink Rosebay Willowherb, and the purple Buddleia are all along that stretch of canal. Just beautiful, except for the whole “invasive” aspect of the buddleia.
I read that both of those plants, along with another pink one I can’t remember the name of were the first flowering plants to grow in the bomb sites in and around London.
Butterflies just love the purple buddleia flowers too. It seems to thrive on “waste” ground and alongside railway lines.
Nature is such a great decorator ❤
I found your videos during a very depressing time of my life. I found solace in watching these and it got me thru this terrible time. I am still here and getting along. Thank you! Keep going strong. You are helping a lot of us. Hope to meet you someday and say thank you.
Kevin, we're a couple from the state of Nebraska who discovered your series during the initial pandemic shutdown in the Spring of 2020. We've been avid fans since. We like to think we're getting an inside look of England. We've yet to make it to your country, but it's definitely on our bucket list. Keep up the good work!
Paul & Linda Rasmussen
Thank you so much for that, it's very much appreciated. Rewarding to hear the videos and series brought some comfort and enjoyment during a very difficult time and I can heartedly recommended a visit to old Blighty, and especially the canal network. 🙂
I’m so glad to see your new season begin Mr. Gent. Thanks for sharing your travels with us.
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If you hadn't said, I would have sworn that poem was the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Lovely to have you back on the canals for our viewing pleasure Sir.
on the road again nice 1 bud thanks keep on trucking
Love the rural bits.
Interested in the abandoned bit of the Oxford, will see if it's on old maps.
It made sense to go to Coventry.
M6 - previous life - disappearing in the mists of time...
The graffiti is depressing.
The amount of stuff people store on top of their boats you'd have thought that they would have designed in lockers or summat.
Enjoying the start to season ten Kevin. We passed Aslan snoozing peacefully, but apparently unoccupied near Hawkesbury Junction a few weeks ago. One of these days we'll get an opportunity for a catch-up. We really enjoyed our stay in Coventry Basin, hope you do too. It's always worth ignoring the naysayers and finding out for yourself. Looking forward to your Oxford adventures. Take care. Tony & Gill, Golden Girl (Fettlers Wharf).
Ah hello Tony and crew. Yes I was probably out in search of a supermarket and a decent latte. Agreed, Coventry Basin was an unexpected surprise. I'll keep an eye out for Golden Girl.
Nice one, Kev! You've MFGA (Made Fridays Great Again)!
My favorite narrowboater is back! And with my favorite show theme! Gotta say, tho, that graveyard was creeeepy. Cheers Kevin!
Hello Kevin, Fellow Gen Xer here from Nashville. A great first S10 episode! I sincerely thank you for providing such extremely rich content to all of us over the past six years! From sharing your experiences, humility, & personal growth while traveling down the most characterful canals in the world to offering advice on navigating life’s ups & downs with courage, dignity, & humor to proving how fulfilling & satisfying one can live by simplifying things, slowing down, & focusing on what’s really important around you. I mean, to those of us who think & feel…yes, Rush reference :)…your videos are soul food that hits on all cylinders & provides balance to allow one to have pleasant & inspiring thoughts. Of course, Aslan is cool, too :)! Have a great Season 10 journey & take care! Hats off to Country House Gent! Cheers!
Many thanks Mark, it's very heart warming to hear that the series is appreciated for what I hoped it would become - the life, personal growth, experiences and opinions of someone who became world-weary and decided to do their utmost to make a difference, as much as is possible. At the time I thought that 'difference' would be only to my life, not as transpired, to countless people around the world. Cheers, 🙂
Well said. 👍-Cheers from Seattle!
Whoohooo!!!! So excited!!! Thanks Kev! Great job as usual!
Absolutely wonderful, Kevin!
Many thanks 😊
YAY Kevin and Aslan are back!!!!!
Oh, what a delight! CHG on a Friday, yeah! 🎉🎉
First thing I hear, horses whinnying, never saw them:( Then, your voice, starting Season 10, yay, lovely to have you and Aslan back in our lives, here in Juneau, Alaska! Your weather often mimics ours and love it when we get summer, again, in between the bouts of cloudy, rainy stretches! Looking forward to your dry sense of humor, your cooking, your videos full of interesting history of the canals. Virtual travel is so entertaining, thanks to you and Aslan! Good luck and good health for this next season, we’ll be watching!❤
Cheers for tuning in. 🙂 Yep, unfortunately the horse was hidden behind a large hedgerow.
Thank you for your poetry and recital thereof! Short but to the point!
My wife and I are bed-ridden due to a summer cold/flu. Your show on Amazon has been providing perfectly relaxing binge-watching material. Very well done.
Also, I get the hint that God is trying to get your attention. Nothing bad, but from a place of grace and love.
Hi Kevin hooray great to see you and ASLAN back on your travels and sharing them with us, been waiting for this since season 9 ended
Nice to see you and to hear Aslan tc now the oldies 👍🤗
Poetry staight from the baldrick stable..
cultural elegance. 👍
Great to see you back Kevin!
This was a perfect end to a busy week 😊
Saved ready for my Sunday morning Sausage Barm, tea and CHG brekkie.. Welcome back with S10.
How can you wait
@@tommytaylor2284 its become my Sunday morning ritual.. Tea Sausage Barm and CGHG.. its a struggle I admit but I manage 🤣
Good lad Dave 👍
Great to have you back..
Kevin. Get a nice mug of Yorkshire tea and some ginger cake...love what you do mate...
❤
Congratulations on Season 10! I love your opening song, which I know you wrote. And I love that you showed us exactly how you start Aslan up, gave us the Google Maps view, and your plan for the journey. I think you've got a good eye for scenery and color, and your sense of humor keeps me coming back. Looking forward to the season!
I love the looks you get from some of the locals, it's as if they're saying, "You ain't from round 'ere are yer!!"
nice to see you back on the water and MOST important, nice to see you keep wearing them T-Shirts!
good tosee you back Kevin and Aslanxx
The bridge that you passed under with the swan family painted on it was so pretty. I’m glad to see that it was still pristine and didn’t have graffiti painted on top of it.
Cheers Kevin, Enjoying your new episode 10. We will be with you 😂
Beautiful country-side! Feels very Britain.
Oooo I'm excited to watch after work! Thanks Kevin!
Your poem was awesome! Reminding me of Victor's: "Sconio o Sconio, how I wish that you were mine, lying on a tea plate, covered in Margarine.. " 😁
Oh, that was great. Thank you, man. Pleasant, visual, and informative. I like hearing little stories and such about where you are. All good.
Fabulous thank you Art.
Greetings from Florida's Nature Coast! Always a good thing when a new season of Travels by Narrowboat premieres! But, there's a dark cloud on the horizon... I notice you're not wearing the blue shirt with sleeves rolled up to your elbows.😂 On to the Oxford Canal!
Thanks!
Many thanks John, I appreciate that. 🙂
Very nice, especially the poetry.......😁
Oh yes! Been looking forward to this Kevin.👍❤️
How lovely. not surprised by all the shopping carts in the canal, they sell them at Aldi for only a pound! LOL. Great to have you back
😆 That's very true
Made me smile to see a new adventure to watch later tonight ...on this smokey day in western Washington state. Thank you!
Sorry to hear the wildfires are still burning, or did I misinterpret you're comment?
@CountryHouseGent You got it right. Very smokey but thankfully no fires in my area. My heart goes out to those all over that are directly affected. Traveling with you is a breath of fresh air!
Luv the CHG T shirts.! ringspun cotton.!awesome.
John Cooper-Clarke will be quaking in his boots. We're heading back darn sarf - hope we'll meet again on our travels 👍
Cheers Guys. Are you permanently leaving that gorgeous mooring and garden of yours?
Yep, the lure of continuously cruisng and not knowing where we're going has taken over 🙄
Ha yes, tell me about it 😆 (until 9 months time and the lure of a mooring again).
Keep doing what you're doing and wear what you like Kevin...
Ah Kevin and Aslan I love these videos. Keep on man!
Glad your back. Love the programmes. Take care.
So glad you are back. Love aslan’s engine
I’m glad you are back! I have been watching reruns during your break.
Great to see you again 😊 I love the canal poem. It reminded me of the pointy birds poem that Steve Martin told in one of his films 😅 pointy birds a pointy pointy, annoint my head , a nointy nointy 😂
Wonderful to see you back and looking well 🌸
Nicely done, especially the opener. Taking us through your startup routine set up my anticipation for what lays ahead in season 10!
Thank you again for another beautiful trip and some...well......ode to poetry? 😄 -Cheers from Seattle!
Fascinating watching familiar local stuff through the CHG lens. We've only explored these parts since starting to watch your channel just over a year ago. I hope my forensic interest in your journey has not spooked you. I do cycle rides most afternoons anyway, but there were a few strategic routes, sightings of Aslan moored up and a couple of encounters with the skipper (second of which spooked me) before finally getting to witness you and her gently chugging along last Sunday - that was the aim - wow, made my week! Thanks for opening up a whole new world to us; places like Braunston - heavenly. Total respect for your solitary and self-sufficient life and you skill in sharing it with us lucky viewers. 😍
Good to see season 10 underway, happy boating we look forward to your travels! (Feel free to throw in some cooking videos, always fun to watch).
Greetings from southern Indiana. I have been enjoying your videos since season one when I stumbled across them on Amazon Prime. I always look forward to them.
Ahhhh finally something to look forward to 😃🫶🏼
I'm on a lake on the other side of the Pond, and I enjoyed your series. I had no idea Britain had so much navigable waterways.
Crazy yes. It's possible to reach most major cities in England by boat.
Greetings from Florida. Thank you for allowing us to live vicariously thru your travels. I am SO looking forward to Season 10. I can't wait to visit the towns, villages and hamlets with you.
Thanks! Been looking forward to Season 10.
Re the shopping trollies, there were two,,, aha must have been a breading pair set loose to establish a new colony,,,
Have been following your posts for some time now, and look forward to each and every one,,,
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I think you're right. Notice how they were feeding together in the water, preparing to mate no doubt.
Your poetry is thought-provoking... I'm not going to tell you what my thoughts were, though... 😊 Love this video!!! Hugs from Tennessee ❤
🙂 You may be surprised that possibly my thoughts are the same as yours. 😁
Excellent Kevin. I must say tho, I wanted to scowl a bit when I saw the “to be continued” come up on the screen. I was locked in to it for sure. 😂 For an industrial canal it still seems to have its scenery. Thank you brother!!!
😁 Keep them wanting more is my mantra. 🤗
I really enjoyed your video! Loved and appreciated the maps, nice! Looks like a great peaceful life enjoying the peaceful canals! And the your song was fun!😂
Great too have ya back!!
It never fails to amaze me how old people like the same music I grew up with (love your t-shirts!)...... hey, wait a minute... 🤔
You know you're old when you hear your favorite songs playing in an elevator or over the PA system of your grocery store. 🤣
Thanks for the ride, 😊 Kevin
Kevin I believe I sense an onward and upward surge going forward.
Good on ya.
Oh canal- Oh canal. 😊
Another great canal video. Greetings from Jackson, TN USA
Very nicely done Kevin!! One of the best episodes!! You might be interested in knowing I watched this episode on a Quest 2 VR headset... I'm going to watch all the rest of them that way because it is almost 3D... Cheers from Tennessee, USA
Yes Steve, that is very interesting. Wouldn't mind experiencing that for myself.
I had a friend who lived in the flats near to Red Lane New Bridge 5A, and just up from Stoke Heath Basin.
Last time I was staying there some years ago, the Canal froze over enough to skate on.
Been watching for several years…just wanted to say I thoroughly enjoy your show. Thank you!
I am saving this video for later tonight but I am so pleased that you are back with Season 10. Here is a "tenner" in celebration of my favorite Canal boat dweller and content creator!
Ah thank you, you're very kind. Gratefully accepted. 🙂
Yes, yes, yes ... no looking at ya dinner, and we go oooooh boating all over the world. Well a short stretch of the Coventry anyway, but thats just the Status Quo. 👍🤘🤘🤘😉
Really enjoy your humour Kevin
You made me snort laugh about moving the sides of the canal in. Your humor always makes my day brighter.
So happy you’re Back! I will watch again because there were friendly interruptions. It is Friday night where I live, 🤣
I love the smell of diesel in the morning
Thank you so very much
Glad to see you again good sr
Perfect timing for me-your vids so much better than anxiety meds!! Thanks for sharing your adventures and good health and happiness to you as always! Looking forward to the rest of season 10 🎉
Thank you and I couldn't agree more. Back in 2017 when I started living aboard, I said canal travel was better than antidepressants. 🙂
Nice to see…. Thanks for sharing!
Another great season 👏 my boat will be ready very soon moving onto the water can't wait
So much has changed...There used to be a row of weavers cottages with massive north facing windows on the third floor (which was the workroom) so they had good light all year round. The Courtaulds factory (by Foleshill Road) whose 'effluent', besides being mainly water, contained enough chemicals that the water was crystal clear...so you could see the shopping trolleys you were going over! I can remember when The Greyhound had sawdust on the floor and wooden settles...then a brewery bought it and spoilt it! For info, if you look at most of the older bridges, you will see a 2 foot square panel in the parapet which has been bricked up. Originally, they had red wooden doors so the fire brigade could drop their hoses into the canal for water...a very common sight on the BCN too. Keep up the good work Kev!
Been looking forward to your return, I'm about to start my own adventure afloat. Stay safe and keep up the good work. Chug chug chug chug
Great to see you back Kevin
Cheers to season 10! It’s interesting that you guys drive on the left, but seem to usually pass on the right when on the canals.
If I remember rightly port is left and green, starboard is right and red. And watercraft pass each other port to port and has nothing to do with us driving on land. Just a note.
A nice leisurely start to Season 10. Things are looking up! I spent part of your journey mentally designing a narrow boaters headgear that has a revolving blade to slice the trailing whisps of willow as you travel along. Happy S10 Mr Gent,
Hi Kevin 👋 just us 2saying hi 👋 thanks for this update 👋 keep safe say well and enjoy your lifestyle 👋 den and sue 👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🚌🚌🚌
Longfellow would of been proud of you 😂, Hello Kevin, cheers mate, Charlie from Pennsylvania
Oh very brave heading up there ! The food is great at the greyhound x
We are happy to have you back. Thanks for sharing. We love your cooking!!!
Welcome back Kevin, great vlog as usual, not so much the poetry 👍😁
Missed your videos. Welcome back!!
Oh cov. 🤣..i lived there for a year... a year il never get back lol👍safe journeys🙏
Hi Kev. Another great vlog and I loved the reference to JCC! Keep the faith, pal.!
Good to see you back
Good morning Kevin, what a state that canal was in! Numerous shopping trollies and one black bag of household waste. That was only in the water. Above it there were over hanging branches and towpath looked uncared for. Seems to me there are some very untidy, lazy people living around there. You were wise not to moor up in that area.
Epic poem Kev 😂😂