If I was to pick a video to demonstrate what your channel is about this fits the bill perfectly. Fantastic shots of gorgeous scenery. It’s amazing the amount of engineering that went into the canals before the railways appeared. Like many branch lines I imagine lots get overgrown and are now disused? The title drew me in to watch this one 😀
Cheers Greg. The Staffs and Worcs was indeed lovely. A lot of the old canals became derelict, not so much branch lines as such just that a lot of them became disused and overgrown when the whole network stopped being used. Since the boom in leisure use, the main ones are maintained and there are lots of volunteers trying to re-open old routes. I did a vlog about a similar topic last winter but can't remember offhand which vlog it was, maybe vlog 80; I imagine you'd enjoy that one.
Shorter in duration but still high quality. I always enjoy your channel because of the content, smooth editing, easy music, and beautiful scenery. Of course, your polished, professional voice is also a nice touch. Don't get me wrong: I do enjoy the channels of other narrowboat owners but yours is, by far, my favorite. Once again, job well done.
+ Voklst We even have limestone too... But then again, since the UK and North America were once part of the same geological continent (Pangaea) it's really not surprising.
I'm looking forward to your next vlog. Many years ago my wife and I did Stourport to Gloucester and back in a week, the week before Live Aid I recall. Mooring was carefully planned, as i'm sure yours will be. But 19 years ago we moved to Malvern and have frequently visited the places where we tied up for the night! The Yew Tree Inn is a good one, next to the Avon Sailing Club (why it's called Avon when it's on the Severn is a mystery!). Keep up the good work!
Very beautiful landscape, it must be a relaxing journey though landscape. Just enjoy what you see and take the time needed. Thank you for sharing your amazing video
Yes, so enjoyably relaxed, thanks. I've found that if I'm pressed for time, I can watch your vlogs at x1.5 speed and your voice is still just on the right side of "normal" sounding! A little less laid back I know but it still works for me.
It is cruising the cut season. Now that I am not so busy from the summer activities I have time to catch up. Really amazing stuff. This is so well produced. Such quality.
love how everything is built up around the canal, like the house at the very end with a window open right on the water. When I see all the old constructions in UK, I get the impression that it was all built in some era when cost was no object, and the only concern was to build things as good as they could possibly be.
Very COOL!!! Man you got to love the LOOK of those Sandstone cuts and just how the vegetation is growing to cover and blend in. Things just SO green there!
I like your video essay style of narration. makes your videos so peaceful and relaxing. You seem to do it more in the later videos I can see the say you have honed your skills over the months.
Ahhhhh (stress melts away) thank you for another fantastic vlog. Your videos are so relaxing and entertaining to watch I can feel the stresses of the day melt away.
Another great vlog David , beautiful scenary i love the the houses especially the big white one. I noticed 6 seconds into the video on the left of sreen a very large splash, I'm thinking a pike found something to eat . Keep up the good work.👍
Started watching your Vlog back at the begining of August (2019), usually a few episodes a night while having dinner! Don't know what I'll do when I've caught up! Anyway as a Worcestershire resident and originally from Kidderminster too, I thought I couldn't let this episode go by without making a comment. It is particuarly nice to see ones home town in a more pleasant light than it is usally seen in, although as volunteer at the Severn Valley Railway it was a great pitty that a train wasn't going over Falling Sands viaduct as you passed below but you can't have everything!
"if Inianna Jones did canals" lol . He did, About ten years ago Harrison Ford and his good lady Callister Flockhart hired a canal boat from Anglo Welsh at Whitchurch and did the LLangollen canal. I met them in Llangollen basin, they loved it .
Another fantastic video David. Wonderful flora and fauna made so enjoyable by your skills. Like so many others, just seeing that you've posted brightens my day!
I know you can't possibly stop at all or even most of these adorable canalside tearooms and pubs but would you consider reviewing a couple of your favorites? Take us through the interiors and all
Probably won't, partly as I don't really have any favourites as such but partly because I don't want the channel to be a general tourism vlog but concentrate on canals and narrowboats.
@@CruisingTheCut that makes sense. Would you then consider shooting more video when you stop at a place for the afternoon? Not just on the boat looking out but from the towpath looking back at the boat and the canals. I always see lots of pretty paths when you're going past and it would be nice to see some footage from a different angle so to speak.
I really wouldn't. I spend way more time than I'd like hunched over the laptop editing the vlogs as it is, I haven't got the energy to shoot and edit any more. Sorry! The idea of getting the boat was to chill out...
Oh forgot to mention fab video, were hoping to go out on the Severn again next Spring and turn off at Worcester so was lovely to see how pretty it looks......
Your notifications come through in the middle of the night here... by brekkie the vlogs are watched and yet another desire to sell up and move. Another good film thankyou. (Now off to work 😕 to get more savings to move!!! 😉)
Just found your channel and watched all the vlogs from the beginning so now i am up to date... these are great vlogs... the best bits for me is the slight sarcasm and dry sense of humour that we see from time to time... very funny when you include it... keep up the good work. I am liking and subscribed... i know how much effort it must take to do the vlogs so much appreciated...
Your comment about Indiana Jones doing canals, well he does, he, or rather Harrison Ford and his wife Calista Flockhart are well known narrowboaters they go to Wales and have been seen in Chirk
I love this area having lived close to it for many years thanks David. Being that Kidderminster is famous for its carpet you could have picked up some for a reasonable price for the boat or for anyone interested their is the carpet museum.
The trouble with carpet on a boat is the muck that inevitably gets trapped in it. Wood floors are easier to clean. Even my little carpet bits are always filthy.
Funny you should mention Indiana Jones, as i believe that Harrison Ford rented a narrow boat on the Shroppie with his wife and child a few years back. Fantastic video as always, love the scenery and loving this stretch of the cut.
Glad your prop cleared quickly. We picked up a very fetching dog blanket round ours near Cropredy last week. Still wake up sweating some days remembering an incident involving razor wire some years back. But I look forward to hear about your trip on the Severn; it always rises several feet any time we go near Stourport!
watched many of your videos , think this was my favorite stretch , sandstone cliffs and so many park like settings ,it just looks so peaceful , well besides the town bits ...
Mildly bad planning on my part (I reckoned I'd be on a par by now) but in fact the next vlog - which is rendering even as I type - takes me to Droitwich which is where the article ends, so it's almost in sync!!
Had a s sad time this week !Now only me to sit and watch, and mourn, helped by your wonderful peaceful vlog. Thank you. It has meant SO much.
Sorry to hear about your tough week. Glad the canals can bring you some comfort.
Marvelous, as always.
Ta!
You know you are on Canal Time when someone strolling along the towpath leaves you in the dust. 1:30
Lol
Help... Can't stop watching... Next one, next one, just another one... SOS... I'm stuck!
I think we too...
@@iivaridark6850 Work can wait, can't it ? ^^
I'm continually amazed at the incredible scenery as you travel the canals. :)
Me too!
If I was to pick a video to demonstrate what your channel is about this fits the bill perfectly. Fantastic shots of gorgeous scenery. It’s amazing the amount of engineering that went into the canals before the railways appeared. Like many branch lines I imagine lots get overgrown and are now disused? The title drew me in to watch this one 😀
Cheers Greg. The Staffs and Worcs was indeed lovely. A lot of the old canals became derelict, not so much branch lines as such just that a lot of them became disused and overgrown when the whole network stopped being used. Since the boom in leisure use, the main ones are maintained and there are lots of volunteers trying to re-open old routes. I did a vlog about a similar topic last winter but can't remember offhand which vlog it was, maybe vlog 80; I imagine you'd enjoy that one.
You have a lot for me to catch up on but i'm working my way through them on my daily commute to the big smoke. :D
Thank you for the tour,David.👍🇬🇧
Incredibly splendid video! ALWAYS so well put together. I could listen to your narration all day long! The English way is, for me, my favorite.
Shorter in duration but still high quality. I always enjoy your channel because of the content, smooth editing, easy music, and beautiful scenery. Of course, your polished, professional voice is also a nice touch. Don't get me wrong: I do enjoy the channels of other narrowboat owners but yours is, by far, my favorite. Once again, job well done.
Many thanks indeed!
Another great video. "No Kiddin' Mister"
Loved those 'Indiana Jones' sections with the vegetation overhanging the sandstone!
Awesome!! Another kitty cat!! Best wishes!
I'm always happy when I get a cat into the videos!
Nice Benny Hill cameo at 1:30... :)
Beautiful!!! Always enjoy your vlogs!!!!!
Thanks Don
Beautiful Sandstone, we have lots of that stateside at Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, USA....I had no idea UK had that!!!
I don't know how widespread it is, geology is not my forte but it's common on that canal at least!
+ Voklst We even have limestone too... But then again, since the UK and North America were once part of the same geological continent (Pangaea) it's really not surprising.
These trips never get old. The scenery is so similar, but it's so peaceful! Maybe not every minute, but when you live near Seattle, it's peaceful!
Ahhhh so much green!!!
Gets better and better, keep on keeping on.
Simply Beautiful......Enjoyed every minute....even the weather....Thanks
Great! Cheers
I'm looking forward to your next vlog. Many years ago my wife and I did Stourport to Gloucester and back in a week, the week before Live Aid I recall. Mooring was carefully planned, as i'm sure yours will be. But 19 years ago we moved to Malvern and have frequently visited the places where we tied up for the night! The Yew Tree Inn is a good one, next to the Avon Sailing Club (why it's called Avon when it's on the Severn is a mystery!). Keep up the good work!
Ah, I don't go to Gloucester but do go to Tewkesbury and up the Avon but all will be revealed in future vlogs!
Fabulously brilliant as usual, waiting for Jono & CHG to upload!
Ta
I know about Jono but what is CHG? Thanks
Country House Gent
Very beautiful landscape, it must be a relaxing journey though landscape. Just enjoy what you see and take the time needed. Thank you for sharing your amazing video
Well that made me so laid back I nearly fell over. Great vlog again David.
Excellent! Mind you don't do yourself an injury!
Yes, so enjoyably relaxed, thanks. I've found that if I'm pressed for time, I can watch your vlogs at x1.5 speed and your voice is still just on the right side of "normal" sounding! A little less laid back I know but it still works for me.
Well, really!!! You are banned, Stephen! ;-)
Lovely video, thanks for sharing.
It is cruising the cut season. Now that I am not so busy from the summer activities I have time to catch up. Really amazing stuff. This is so well produced. Such quality.
Nice slow speed narrowboat chase in the next Indiana film, great video
That would be hilarious
One of the most picturesque videos in the series.
love how everything is built up around the canal, like the house at the very end with a window open right on the water. When I see all the old constructions in UK, I get the impression that it was all built in some era when cost was no object, and the only concern was to build things as good as they could possibly be.
Once upon a time... :-(
What a beautiful image at the start of this video, simply stunning.
Excellent David.. I have to admire the camera work really crisp and clear detail plus very informative.. Look forward to the next one.. Thank you..
Thanks Liam
Beautiful photography
Ta
Very COOL!!! Man you got to love the LOOK of those Sandstone cuts and just how the vegetation is growing to cover and blend in. Things just SO green there!
Lush, isn't it!
Looked like a top water Pike "blow up" at 00:15, the Angler in me got a bit excited seeing that.
I moved to Cornwall from Bewdley in 2000 at the age of 12 so this episode was great to come across. Been hooked for weeks, thank you. Joe
I took a break for a bit. Wanted a short video to enjoy over breakfast. So relaxing. Hope your doing well.
Great Vlog as always. Keep up the good work.
Ta
I like your video essay style of narration. makes your videos so peaceful and relaxing. You seem to do it more in the later videos I can see the say you have honed your skills over the months.
Absolutely beautiful scenery.
Lovely to see you go down this stretch of the Staffs &'Worcs and looking forward to seeing your trip down the Severn 👍
Next vlog!
Ahhhhh (stress melts away) thank you for another fantastic vlog. Your videos are so relaxing and entertaining to watch I can feel the stresses of the day melt away.
Good!
Very nice. Did this stretch many years ago. Doesn't ring any bells though :)) very pretty.
Thanks keep up the good work
Lovely cruise. Greenery and wild life are beautiful. Very well done. Cheers
Thank you
Love you blogs what life to live:)
:-)
What a beautiful stretch of canal. You're giving me ideas for a cycling holiday. :-)
It would be a great location for that!
Excellent video!
Another great vlog David , beautiful scenary i love the the houses especially the big white one. I noticed 6 seconds into the video on the left of sreen a very large splash, I'm thinking a pike found something to eat . Keep up the good work.👍
Ha, no, it was a dog jumping in after a ball but you couldn't see it on camera!
Another relaxing and thoroughly enjoyable visit with a (RUclips) friend. Thank you, David.
Cheers
David, as always relaxing and entertaining.
Ta
Very pretty indeed
Started watching your Vlog back at the begining of August (2019), usually a few episodes a night while having dinner! Don't know what I'll do when I've caught up! Anyway as a Worcestershire resident and originally from Kidderminster too, I thought I couldn't let this episode go by without making a comment. It is particuarly nice to see ones home town in a more pleasant light than it is usally seen in, although as volunteer at the Severn Valley Railway it was a great pitty that a train wasn't going over Falling Sands viaduct as you passed below but you can't have everything!
Nice. Well done.
David you have some beautiful countryside in England. Thank you for the post.
We do, particularly the rural counties like Shropshire and Worcestershire.
These interesting and relaxing videos with a nice mug of something hot (this time cafe mocha), are on high on the list of My Favorite Things.
What a lovely thing to say, thank you!
You're inspiring me to escape the rat race, slightly different though - travelling on the canals as a performing musician is what I'd love to do.
Lots of artistic types doing exactly that!
4:08 that's a glorious shot! I like how there's a narrowboat for scale to show how massive the cathedral is
I’m afraid it’s only a church in Kidderminster
Absolutely stunning
"if Inianna Jones did canals" lol . He did, About ten years ago Harrison Ford and his good lady Callister Flockhart hired a canal boat from Anglo Welsh at Whitchurch and did the LLangollen canal. I met them in Llangollen basin, they loved it .
I had heard that story! They're welcome on my boat anytime :-)
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Saw my first narrowboat many years ago at Wolverley Lock, and so began my obsession! Another great vlog, thank you.
Thumbs up! Like watching an ongoing documentary... : )
Cheers Dave :-)
Great vlog David
I live in LA your videos always brighten my day. But I do have to omit that I am quite green with envy.
Thank you, glad you like them
Another fantastic video David. Wonderful flora and fauna made so enjoyable by your skills. Like so many others, just seeing that you've posted brightens my day!
Thank you!
Beautiful scenery and love the sandstone
It's a great canal.
I know you can't possibly stop at all or even most of these adorable canalside tearooms and pubs but would you consider reviewing a couple of your favorites? Take us through the interiors and all
Probably won't, partly as I don't really have any favourites as such but partly because I don't want the channel to be a general tourism vlog but concentrate on canals and narrowboats.
@@CruisingTheCut that makes sense. Would you then consider shooting more video when you stop at a place for the afternoon? Not just on the boat looking out but from the towpath looking back at the boat and the canals. I always see lots of pretty paths when you're going past and it would be nice to see some footage from a different angle so to speak.
I really wouldn't. I spend way more time than I'd like hunched over the laptop editing the vlogs as it is, I haven't got the energy to shoot and edit any more. Sorry! The idea of getting the boat was to chill out...
@@CruisingTheCut also makes sense. I'll just enjoy the content you do make no worries 😊
@@for.tax.reasons if u don't like he's style do it yourself or find another you tuber who does.
Another thoroughly pleasant vlog!!
Thank you :-)
"Bored little scamps" you say....Hmmm I think i could use a slightly different phrase. Another highly watchable vlog, thanks..
Regards Steve
I was trying very hard to keep it polite.
You did very well...i would need access to a bleep machine if i voiced a vlog about them.
Short but sweet but very nice and peaceful ☺👍
Another beautiful video - I sooooooo want to live there. Thank you for making these :)
Thanks, as always, for watching.
Carry On up from Kinver.
Love it
Oh forgot to mention fab video, were hoping to go out on the Severn again next Spring and turn off at Worcester so was lovely to see how pretty it looks......
A relatively short one but just as informative, looking forward to the next, cats always welcome with 3 of my own.
I do like cats!
Super video David. Beautiful S&W - can't beat it
Another great Vid CTC. I'll be viewing this a few times as planning the Stourport ring next year.
Glad it's helpful!
Every bit of canal you showed looks so inviting. Also, Benny Hill's back 1:32-1:39. Chuckle!
:-)
Your notifications come through in the middle of the night here... by brekkie the vlogs are watched and yet another desire to sell up and move. Another good film thankyou. (Now off to work 😕 to get more savings to move!!! 😉)
Have a nice day :-)
I do find it amusing that you get overtaken by people walking, such a nice slow pace to narrow boating.
This has become my absolute favorite. 1:10 ducks 2:25 wall 4:15 church 5:15 house with glasses 5:20 lush greenery/trees 5:35 sandstone wall
Time-stamping is a true gift
Hi David thanks for another good vid we loved it in Stourport we stayed there for two days. Look forward to next vid
Cheers Sarah
I do love a green corridor! I can always hope that Indiana Jones will swing out at me! Lovely duckies and TWO kinds of geese! Hello kitty!
Crossed fingers for you and Indy one day!
So beautiful the English countryside.
It is :-)
Love the title sequence ;)
:-)
This is got to be my favorite video. Just beautiful scenery oh my goodness Incredible video.i would love to live on a the narrowboat
Absolutely Brilliant Filming as always ...
Great Kiddy is my nearest town (living in Harvington) so walked the dog along parts of this stretch many a time
that's a really pretty one.
Just found your channel and watched all the vlogs from the beginning so now i am up to date... these are great vlogs... the best bits for me is the slight sarcasm and dry sense of humour that we see from time to time... very funny when you include it... keep up the good work. I am liking and subscribed... i know how much effort it must take to do the vlogs so much appreciated...
Thank you, yes it's a fair bit of effort! Cheers
I see more sunshine i your vlogs than I ever imagned ther would be in England.
Love the narration!
Thank you
Oh my that house that area beautiful.
Mmmmmmm
Beautiful scenery, lovely bit of watching as always dude!
Cheers Denise, hope you're well :-)
CruisingTheCut thanks dude, had some major problems boat wise, but she's coming back together stronger than before!
Oh crikey, sorry to hear that - no doubt £££££ - glad it's sorted!
Your comment about Indiana Jones doing canals, well he does, he, or rather Harrison Ford and his wife Calista Flockhart are well known narrowboaters they go to Wales and have been seen in Chirk
I love this area having lived close to it for many years thanks David. Being that Kidderminster is famous for its carpet you could have picked up some for a reasonable price for the boat or for anyone interested their is the carpet museum.
The trouble with carpet on a boat is the muck that inevitably gets trapped in it. Wood floors are easier to clean. Even my little carpet bits are always filthy.
Impressive rocky scenery and routes.
Funny you should mention Indiana Jones, as i believe that Harrison Ford rented a narrow boat on the Shroppie with his wife and child a few years back. Fantastic video as always, love the scenery and loving this stretch of the cut.
He did indeed. Cheers
Glad your prop cleared quickly. We picked up a very fetching dog blanket round ours near Cropredy last week. Still wake up sweating some days remembering an incident involving razor wire some years back. But I look forward to hear about your trip on the Severn; it always rises several feet any time we go near Stourport!
It was very low for me, almost too low I think!
Relaxing tour in the scenic countryside along the canal.
watched many of your videos , think this was my favorite stretch , sandstone cliffs and so many park like settings ,it just looks so peaceful , well besides the town bits ...
Great as always but amazingly your latest Canal Boat article has got ahead of the vlogs! You are toying with us sir!
Mildly bad planning on my part (I reckoned I'd be on a par by now) but in fact the next vlog - which is rendering even as I type - takes me to Droitwich which is where the article ends, so it's almost in sync!!
I agree w/ you on the canal-side house; very picturesque. St. Mary’s & All Saints church is striking as well, and circa 1500, amazing.