FINALLY made the Leeds and Liverpool Canal - Will we EVER Leave? Why we STOPPED VLOGGING Episode 160
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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After years of trying we finally get on to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal......Also, where have we been?
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Making videos must always come second to actually enjoying life on the boat. I for one love watching you on your travels but I would hate it if got in the way of living the life you wanted in the first place. So keep them coming but never feel pressured to do so. All the best. Stephen
My very words. Realizing the amount of effort that you all expend on any “normal” given day, but then adding to that what it takes to film & edit for an upload, well, I would feel grateful as a viewer to see one perhaps every month or so. Thanks for considering us, but please stick to your original plan…have fun first!
I agree!
S
It doesn't matter how much time there is between videos, I will always be there waiting for the next one. You two are part of my life as are Minimal List, so carry on at your pace, those who care don't mind waiting. xx
Thank you James
You're living your life your way Happy you've made it to where you wanted to be. Well done. 😊
Thank you so much
So glad you guys are back and safe and sound .I certainly missed you but as others have said there is more to life than becoming a slave to filming and editing. The trouble is you make your videos so interesting we crave for more . Glad you had a nice break and
did some living like your visit to Snowdonia. So take care be safe and enjoy life.
Cheers from Canada where it snowed overnight.
Thank you Ralph. We feel well rested and loved our trip to Snowdonia. Now we are hoping for some snow of our own
Thank you ahead of time for any and all videos you do. I enjoy them so very much! No pressure tho. Thanks for allowing us to come along with you!😊
You are so welcome! There is another in the pipeline. x
Thanks for being y’all!
Brilliant, thank you !...makes us feel homesick......now carry on as normal...☺
I started watching this and said to my wife I know that voice and when you appeared I was right. Welcome back, good to see you again.
Thank you
What beautiful video of the leaves and water. You both are so very talented. Missed your cooking and kitchen videos. Thank you for each and every one.
Hope you take time out at Gargrave and visit Malham for the day.. Welcome to the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
That is definitely one of our plans
In addition to lots of other things your sense of peace and contentment transcends the vagaries of tech and RUclips. Lovely share.
That's lovely. Thank you
It's good to have you back but don't worry when you need a break! I look forward to your videos whenever you feel like posting! You do make lovely videos and your choice of music is sublime!
Thank you so much!!
Happy to see you again. But we aren't the point, Life the way you want to live it, is the point.
So glad to have you both back. Of course your brief of live the life first and record second means that you remain true to yourselves. I look forward to the next slice of 'Fran & Rich' whenever or how frequent that may be.
I have missed your videos. So glad you are back
Thank you both nice to see you back xx
Welcome to my home town of Leeds 🥰. Glad you have finally made it onto the Leeds Liverpool. Happy boating xxx
4:16 nature’s own weaving in the lock gate 🙂
I see it everywhere😊
Santa/Father Christmas should bring Fran some shoes with good grips on the soles. The canal scenery breathtaking, leaves floating down. Take care and enjoy!
Ha Ha! I do have new boots now 😊
It’s good to have you back again. However I totally understand your reasons. After all you don’t want it to turn into work. It would defeat the purpose of your lifestyle. Happy pootling 🛥
Glad you got the lock gate sorted out. Have a great week. 👍
Thanks for sharing. That looked dangerous. Gut wrenching.
Welcome back and enjoy yourselves
Life's not always about the cut......it's about life and you have nothng to apologize about. Always enjoy your Vlogs
Glad to see y’all back ! Louisiana USA
Yaaay 🙌🏽🥂welcome back Fran & Rich,🤗💕good to see you, but NEVER feel you need to explain your precious time away from the cameras, you both look very well 🤗🤗🐾🐾
Autumnal colors are great in this vlog. Those locks do look scary. Cheers!
Fran no reel fall into the back packet, true there is time! Both of you look so well. Real nice to see. 24 advent days away. Japanesse gnot weed , in the crumble Cheers XXX
Love the slowmo falling leaves!!
Just beautiful photography, always have and will love your videos
Thank you so much 😀
Just love your videos. Never ever feel compelled to do them. You must enjoy the life you have chosen. Enjoy my part of the world (I live in West Yorkshire) it has alot to offer.
We have fallen in love with it already
Hay, nice to have you back..🙂
Great to see you again, God Bless
Good to see you back but no need to apologise for taking a break. We all need one from time to time. Looking forward to seeing more of your travels.
Love these walks , do them often.
You don’t have to explain to anyone. Your both fabulous.enjoy life and vlog when you feel like it ❤️
Thank you so much!!
Welcome back and keep 'em coming.
Missed yall glad your back!
love you guys so much xxx
It is so beautiful on the cut!
Lovely to see you again! Y'all take all the time you need to enjoy yourselves. We subscribers will be content to wait until the time is right for you to vlog again. After all, it's your life, your adventure, your schedule--and we wouldn't want it any other way.
Thank you
Beautiful scenery! I am glad you are back. However, you both should do what is important to you.
Welcome back! And also just to say you do what you need to do for yourselves, it must be hard editing etc daily, you need to enjoy your life as you see fit. Take care ❤️
Can't wait to watch later x
Welcome back! Great to hear your break was a happy and relaxing one. Those 5-rise locks look fearsome, glad you were there to do them so we don't have to :)
Thanks 👍
Great to see you guys really enjoyed this vlog. We watch your vlogs to follow your journey but if taking a break every now an then is needed then so be it. Enjoy your time together it’s your life and when you vlog we’ll watch take care
You have been missed. Understand, live your life first, can wait for your vlogs.
Salt air is fantastic, well worth a visit.
Great overall video per usual but the shots of the falling leaves were just extra amazing! Y'all could do just a few a year and I'd be here watching. Watching videos isn't my life either. Hence catching up here and there when I have some down time.
I love seeing both of you and your vlogs and love whatever you share. Glad you are enjoying your life and taking us along when you can. Whenever you post I’ll be here. Safe healthy cruising
Thank you x
Well done both for putting yourselves first. Really enjoy your vlogs, but happy to wait a few weeks if you need time out x
brilliant as always..
Happy to see you back. Sometimes a break is needed and well deserved to get the creative juices flowing again. Take care.
Glad to see you back and all well…. Great to see you in Leeds too. I’d like to have said hello if I’d known, but looks like you’re well away now… enjoy your cruising life… your viewers certainly enjoy watching you.
We really enjoyed Leeds. I'm sure we will be back some day
The autumnal scenes 🍁 were beautiful and it was so nice to see the old buildings being cared for and still in use in Saltaire.
Well done all you lock keepers. 👍🏼
Saltaire was an amazing place. Would love to go back if it wasn't the other side of Bingley locks!
Cracking video and I'm glad you got to use the LL canal. BTW the 3 stair case before the 5 rise is Bingley 3 Rise :)
Great to have you back on RUclips. Ive sent Fran a message on Messenger. We are moored in Skipton and would like to meet up with you for a drink or meal when you are in the area xxx
Welcome back, was getting worried. Glad you're both good
We are fine thank you and well refreshed
💗🍁🌲Enjoy. Thanks for sharing.
How absolutely beautiful. You are always missed. Thank YOU for making videos.
Thank you both for sharing your journey with us, we do appreciate it…🙏✝️🙏
Love you guys.love your videos,
Wow, thought you both were having a break. Lovely surprised, thank you
Glad CRT got you all sorted! Beautiful scenery and music 🎶! Thx
It’s a joy to see your videos but life must come first. Thank you and cheers.
Bingley Five Rise: we never went through them on our various holidays but I have visited just to stare for a long time at their magnificence. So this was wonderful for me. Thanks! 😀💜
You were def missed! Glad to see you back all refreshed. Looking forward to the next one take care❤
Good to see you guys but life certainly comes before vlogging!
We love the L&L ! We were on there for a long weekend in September. Silsden boats . Nice long stretch between the 5 rise and gargrave lock free to enjoy whilst they were closed !
Saltaire is a wonderful place so is skipton :) enjoy :)
Yes agree with everyone's comments, enjoy life on your travels first. You videos are worth waiting for, when ever they come. It's great to see so many enjoy them too.
You two are IMHO ‘real people’ and thanks for communicating so effectively…you don’t need to do better at all explaining and revisiting your core values makes thing really clear…thanks for being you👍🏻😁
Wow, thank you!
Quality is always more important than quantity. Just keep posting when you feel like posting. Gates in staircase locks always look SO huge! Take care you two!
Those locks can be a LOT of work. I do not think my husband and I could get through some of them, like these without assistance. It is nice to go along with you guys through your vlogs though. Have a wonderful Christmas break and will look forward to more of your cruising adventures when you can share them with us.
We are enjoying the stretch without locks now, but lots of tough swing bridges to make up for it
Beautiful autumn footage with a superb choice of music to accompany it. Really enjoyable vlog, but that bit was simply stunning and so relaxing. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it Jane
Thankyou for sharing.
You're welcome
At the end of the day Fran and Rich you have to do what you deem fit to live the best life you can 😊
So good to have you back.
But Doing stuff you enjoy in life must always come before videos.
Hoppe you enjoy the Leeds and Liverpool it's a lovely part of the contrary.
We are loving it
Just go with the flow guys, we will always find new ones if subscribed.
Hi, did wonder where you were, the autumn views must be beyond beautiful along the canals, glad you are still enjoying life aboard must of been a swelter in the heatwave, glad you are enjoying life, looking forward to the northern adventures, best wishes.xx
Nice to see ya, to see ya nice...Now I feel complete. Without seeing your vlogs I feel something is missing as its been a good few years I have been watching your journeys and adventures. I understand what you are saying regarding taking vlogs your lives are more important but I must say you started it so in reflection someone like myself is with you all the way. xx
Good for you to have stopped filming for a while. Good of you to recognise that you needed a break from seeing the world through a camera.
Still, selfishly, I am glad to see you two again :-)
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Thank you
Glad to hear and see you, both, Fran and Rich! It’s necessary to take breaks from making vlogs, so happy that you can walk away for awhile, then come back. Life is a series of changes, isn’t it? All the best to you both!
We always feel more energetic and enthusiastic when we have had a little break
Hi Fran and Rich, extremely nice to see you back. It pays to take a break every once in a while but, missed you very much😊.
Great to have you back! I was going through withdrawl! LOL
Nothing wrong with taking a break now and then... Great to see you again....
You are so right. Video making must not be the most important thing to do.
Enjoying life together is far more important..
Enjoyed seeing you and the dogs again.
Glad you enjoy life. Thanks for sharing a part of it. Could you show a bit of all the things you make, or should I look somewhere else for it. I love it you have plants onboard; in het boat. Have fun! 👋
Thank you very much. We will hopefully be showing a little bit more of our crafts over the winter
Making videos for us hungry viewers must be an added pressure, however you must do what's good for you. Love the videos, grateful that you share your adventures with us, but, you come first.
Thanks for sharing. Lovely to see my part of the world again. A very long time since I boated down there and you showed how it has become hard work in recent years.
I think maybe it is harder as the locks have n=been out of use for quite some time.
Great to see you back after a well-deserved break.
Aww...lovely to see you both. You are so right to take time out for yourselves, we would still love you guys if you stopped vlogging now...I for one would watch an old vlog now and again as you were out inspiration to get our NB, and you feel like old friends xx
😊 thank you
Morning Fran and Rich, it’s Sue and Steve (we had the great pleasure of an evening with you and Mark when we were all on the Ashby canal in 2018, when we had our boat Juniper). So sorry that weve not kept in touch in the comments, but we’ve followed your “journey!!” closely, and remain deeply envious that you’ve been able to continue narrowboat life and are clearly thriving on the beautiful lifestyle that Laura Maisie affords you both. So pleased to see you both back, and in such good spirits. Spare a thought for us “land lubbers”....still dreaming of being back on the canals one day when family commitments are over....who knows, we may even meet up for another meal one day. Take care, look after each other and keep making your videos...cheers Sue and Steve...🍷🍷
Thanks Steve and Sue. Of course we remember you and it's good to hear from you. Stay in touch and let us know if you make it back to the water
One day soon I hope...🍷🍷
Good for you!! Take time to yourselves for yourself.
I follow a man in NZ and binged watched all his posts for months, seen his outdoors business ventures & family grow over 8 years. Then they got separated, his business and subsequent vlogs, took him away from home just once too often.
His attitude has changed now quite considerably, and he still helps out his ex wife, and hopefully they can get back together, but as Rich says, it is what it is. Thankfully it hasn't affected their children too much, as far as can be seen.
SO GOOD ON YOU. TAKE TIME FOR YOU. We can wait, no problem here, i will be notified when you post a vlog.
Bon Voyage, take care, stay safe. 3 to go and I'm caught up to you. 168/171 🤗🤔🧐
Hello, we've missed you.
Bingley Five Rise! Brings back memories of the late 1970's when I sailed with the family 🙂A tough set of locks but worth the journey. Keep safe and well you two xx
They are tough, but a great experience.
Glad to see you again, wondered what you were doing, live in the moment and don't feel you have to vlog all the time, I'd be happy watching monthly, your life is for you to enjoy and I appreciate you sharing your journey 💚
The colors of the trees and leaves on the path were so beautiful, lovely to see you both again ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lovely to see you back. And no need to apologize for having your priorities in the right place! (and with such quality videos, who is going to carp about quantity). Your boat is looking so homey (or homely as you Brits would say) these days, now that you've had a chance to cozy it up with the books, plants and other things you enjoy. A pleasure to see you enjoying your home!
Thank you so much!
I am with you guys, I prefer the canals to rivers, being single-handed the rivers I find very difficult at times.
So lovely. To see you both I have been. on the Leeds Liverpool canal luvely but hard going good luck and all the.best to you both
Thanks so much
So glad you said you visited Snowdonia as I swear I saw you in Betws-y-Coed but couldn’t think how that could be as our nearest canal is in Llangollen. Now I tell the wife I wasn’t going mad and seeing things 😂
That would have been us. We had a lovely time there and stayed close to Betws -y-coed