I am a teacher in USA'; met my husband online.He is from England and has an art degree. We absolutely LOVE watching you paint and travel the the canals! We are going to travel back there next summer to narrow boat. I would love to purchase one! Thanks so much for your lovely vlogs and the music you play on them. How relaxing for this very busy teacher! Not kidding, I fall asleep watching your travels-I mean this in a good way! You are both lovely and your cats are just lovely!
Hi All, I find it interesting watching all you VLOG’s being taken aboard to experience your life on a narrowboat. It is interesting watching all your VLOG’s on life on a narrowboat, it is now something I have on my bucket list to do. It is interesting to see the way you all start off your VLOG’s. The Narrowboat Experience. - Annamarie & Kath Morning!.....and Welcome to Narrowboat Experience! Cruising the Cut. - David Hello!......and welcome to the VLOG! Minimal List - Jo & Michael Good Morning! London Boat Girl - Lorna Hi Guys, I hope your well! Floating Our Boat - Fran & Richard No intro, they just get straight into it. My interest is in the life lead on a narrowboat, many thanks for going to the effort of taking us all along with you, as without your efforts we would be sorely deprived. Keep up the great work and happy cruising. Regards A Fan from Australia
I love your tea, coffee and sugar jars! They are adorable! The people that own the house with the table and chairs in their garden have a gorgeous view. Thank you for sharing another lovely vlog with us x
Love it - the sheep "mooning" you, the empty table and chairs in someone's garden, the curious swan, the leaves, and most of all Kathy and the umbrella - very practical. You made my Sunday. Well done. John, Ontario, Canada
That was over too soon but I do have my bonus stately hall visit, video for this afternoon 😁 thanks for another great video of a really beautiful canal. I enjoyed it.
Ladies my wife and I love your videos, we're thinking of moving on to a boat in a few years (max) once kids go to uni. Thank you for sharing your adventures.
Well now , only just subscribed after 2 weeks of binge watching, your vlog's are captivating, and your camera control is now as good as " cruisingthecut " . Opps did i say that out loud !! sorry David !!. keep up the great videos, No canals here in S.A. Australia , so a little bit jealous, :))) love you girls!!
great vlog,we love it at tixal wide too.just at the end of your vlog the wife caught a glimpse of you tea/coffee/sugar canisters in the galley she loved them and would like to no where you got them please,cheers for now
Thanks. We would have loved to moor up there for a few days had we known about it sooner! The tea/coffee/sugar containers are from Asda. They also have matching mugs!
The Staff & Worc is a delight to cruise on, deffo in my top 5 so far. Lovely vlog girls, hope your both well, and Munchy wasn't told off too much for escaping......
One of the nice things about boating on the broads (apart from no locks) is once can more in the middle of one of the broads using a mudweight, if there are no bankside moorings.
Tixell wide when we came through we were hit with horizontal rain ! ! Lucky ladies Yes the rich land owner did not want a basic canal across his land so an artificial lake was created. If you can stop at Radford Bank and at Acton Trussell both have great pubs.
Lovely vlog , got me worried when you said munchies had jumped off lol , that posh house was a weird shape up on the hill , I think it's alot better when the canals are wider, especially when there's alot of bends in them , so I should think that part of the canal tix-all the boxes haha, doh lol .
Loved the Staffs & Worcs but lousy weather in June meant that my plans to do the Severn and Avon this year were stymied by the heavy rain. So looking forward to your journey.
Don't feel too bad about mistaking Tixall Wide - did EXACTLY the same a few years back, and battled with the waterlillies whilst winding and cursing "it's not THAT wide, what's all the damn fuss about?!"
@@TheNarrowboatExperience To quote Chris Rock "sure, you can steer a car with your feet, but that doesn't mean it *should* be done!". And yes, visiting Tixall Wide on foot a few years later was an....education :-)
I've always understood Tixall wide was built because the owner of Tixall House was objecting to the canal going through his land. It was after all the motorway of the time. So to placate him they built him a lake (with a canal going through it)
Be good to see this canal to the end, I've been following Phil on Narrow boat Journeys and it looks a fab place which is crying out for an 18ft Cabin Cruiser to come along, it could do a dance in the Tixall Wide. But sadly at the moment it is off to Sileby for anti fouling. Cheers and thanks.
Sir Edward Aston of Tixal is my 12th great grandfather. He was High Sheriff .. three different times during the reign of Henry VIII and twice during the reign of Philip and Mary. The 16th century 3-storey gatehouse of the now-demolished Tixall Hall, was built by my Aston family. A free chapel has existed in Tixall since the 12th Century but the present church was built in 1848 by the Hon. John Chetwynd Talbot [my 8th cousin]. He was the son of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot.
Oh fab! Don't know when you recorded this.... I am here in Kinver this morning, turning around at the Stourbridge Arm Junction back down to Stourport Basin. Then coming back up Monday / Tuesday. x
Hiya. When Kath said she couldn't see, wouldn't the bow/tunnel light have been of use? Just wondering. And what happened regarding Munchie? All the best to you.
Good morning Kath and Anna, did Munchie just escape out the hatch or off the boat? I imagine there have been a few times you have been delayed by the whims of cats. Hope you are both well. Loved the vlog. Cheers Craig
Just out the hatch but as the canal was narrow over the aqueduct he could have made the jump to land if he’d tried. I had to let go of the tiller to grab him and post him back inside.
>^. .^< It is now Aug 19th here in Pennsylvania USA. I just looked at the weather map, another multi state wide weather front is headed my way as was the fact yesterday and the day before. So our weather is bound to be even worse than the weather you were cruising in at the end of this segment. Oh Well........
We keep an eye on them but they mainly get in the way and are a bit distracting. They’ve never tried to get to shore when we’ve been moving but they aren’t generally outside when we are close enough to the towpath for them to try!
@@TheNarrowboatExperience you need to take the River Severn and the Severn is navigable between Stourport and Sharpness - a distance of 50 nautical miles. The navigable route avoids the dangerous stretch of the river below Gloucester by using the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. And Sharpness is across the bay from Newport.
>^, ,^< Sure you probably already heard this, but just in case you have not. No matter how tiny the shadow on your solar panel is, much much more power is lost than you think as far as according to the shadow's size. When a penel is evenly exposed to teh sun's photons (light) the electrons are forced to go out and do some work for you before returning to the solar panel. When even a small shadow is on the panel this dark spot provids a area where the free/homesick electrons can return home without doing any work for you. So try always root your rope so it lay next to the panel and does not create any dark spot on your PV panel's face since even small shadows are shortcuts back home for electrons.... I tried finding you both on Google Maps, tomany symilar names in the UK. I did fund the Staffordshire area but I kust like to paroose teh maps thats all.... its iof Miktons...
It's not so much the shadow on the panels when we are cruising- the engine charges the batteries. Yes, we are aware of good solar maintenance when moored up, but thanks. x
I am a teacher in USA'; met my husband online.He is from England and has an art degree. We absolutely LOVE watching you paint and travel the the canals! We are going to travel back there next summer to narrow boat. I would love to purchase one! Thanks so much for your lovely vlogs and the music you play on them. How relaxing for this very busy teacher! Not kidding, I fall asleep watching your travels-I mean this in a good way! You are both lovely and your cats are just lovely!
I'm so happy that you like the vlogs, thank you for watching (from one teacher to another)
My Dad and Mum and I and my Children went to Norfolk for a few years. We stayed in houseboats. Wonderful happy times.
Thank You so much. Can’t get around much and your beautiful works help make my day.
Hi All,
I find it interesting watching all you VLOG’s being taken
aboard to experience your life on a narrowboat.
It is interesting watching all your VLOG’s on life on a narrowboat, it
is now something I have on my bucket list to do. It is interesting to see the way you all
start off your VLOG’s.
The Narrowboat Experience. - Annamarie
& Kath
Morning!.....and Welcome to Narrowboat Experience!
Cruising the Cut. - David
Hello!......and welcome to the VLOG!
Minimal List - Jo & Michael
Good Morning!
London Boat Girl - Lorna
Hi Guys, I hope your well!
Floating Our Boat - Fran &
Richard
No intro, they just get straight into it.
My interest is in the life lead on a narrowboat, many thanks for going
to the effort of taking us all along with you, as without your efforts we would
be sorely deprived. Keep up the great
work and happy cruising.
Regards
A Fan from Australia
Thank you for the shout out. I'm sure we would have been asleep, including the dogs!! We loved our cuppa with you all x x
It was so early, but it was so much fun to see your boat as we pootled past. xx
You can tell it is summer - the rain is warmer!
lol
Your both lovely. Thanks for sharing your travels.
I love your tea, coffee and sugar jars! They are adorable! The people that own the house with the table and chairs in their garden have a gorgeous view. Thank you for sharing another lovely vlog with us x
The tea and coffee set was my first purchase for the boat, and I don't buy much but I really thought they set the scene. Glad you liked them too.
Great to watch life on the canal 😃
Thanks
Emma is great, I love her vlogs. As much as I love yours. Just enjoy life, you only get one go ❤️
From the 360's to the video and editing, you two are a power couple. Great video
too kind
Love it - the sheep "mooning" you, the empty table and chairs in someone's garden, the curious swan, the leaves, and most of all Kathy and the umbrella - very practical. You made my Sunday. Well done.
John, Ontario, Canada
Glad to hear it.
That was over too soon but I do have my bonus stately hall visit, video for this afternoon 😁 thanks for another great video of a really beautiful canal. I enjoyed it.
Thanks, glad you liked it
Lovely vlog thanks Ladies.
What a lovely turn...Cath has got the new boat well under control .....and water lilies ...what a nice bit of canal
This part of the canal looks lovely, can't wait to see all of it.
Love your tea coffee and sugar caddies! So cute. Looking forward to seeing more of Staffordshire & Worcester canal! xx
It seems to be a lovely canal already
Good morning girls! Lovely to see your happy smiling faces! :-)
Get you! Side hatches on BOTH sides :) Love the vlog :)
Yes, only the best for the second boat. lol
Aaaawwww, those fox and owl jars at the very end are so cute. Thanks for taking us along. This part of the canal looks very nice and calm.
Your videography is great! Such joy to watch!👍✌️😊🙏🏼
Thanks
Super beautiful views. Great way to go through life.
That's Tixall Gatehouse from the 16th-century and all that remains of Tixall Hall which was demolished in 1927. Love it when you're in my home town.
LOL The idea and mental picture of some one just doing donuts in a narrow boat is an amusing image :)
yes, the slowest donuts ever
Ladies my wife and I love your videos, we're thinking of moving on to a boat in a few years (max) once kids go to uni. Thank you for sharing your adventures.
Well now , only just subscribed after 2 weeks of binge watching, your vlog's are captivating, and your camera control is now as good as " cruisingthecut " . Opps did i say that out loud !! sorry David !!. keep up the great videos, No canals here in S.A. Australia , so a little bit jealous, :))) love you girls!!
Welcome aboard.
Love your Vlogs and now my boat is famous as you pass it 2.22 on the video. Just wish I’d been onboard to say hi 👋
Happy cruising 😃 x
Oh excellent. lovely canal
Nice video. It rained when I boated through Tixall Wide as well. ;-)
Thank You for the ride along : )
I love sundays, very nice vlog as usual, can’t wait to see the rest of your journey, keep smiling 😀
Interesting vlog thanks for sharing
I have started looking forward seeing your travels early in the My morning
Excellent, glad to hear it
Doing doughnuts, loving tunnels, boating in the evening.......whatever next girls 😂😂👍
Another lovely vid! So peaceful 😊
Love it! I think Barry loves ALL the canals, but yes this is a favourite ;-)
Hi there, glad I got my facts right.
lovely. thank you
Love the vlog! Thanks for sharing 👍🇨🇦❤️😎
Recieved the soft enamel pin badge yesterday in good order, thanks.
Wow. Wheelies for narrowboats!
always a delight to see you.
Nice one, I'd have recognised NBG's boat too with the inflatable canoe on it lol
Will be watching to you come to the end of the canal and beond. Great vlog.
Lovely vlog girls. Can imagine mooring must be an issue sometimes - hopefully not too often. Not like you can just stop where you'd want to..
It's only ever happened a few times.
Lovely way to start my Sunday xxx cheers girls x
You're welcome thanks for watching
Awesome video
Thank you
hey ladies another fantastic enjoyable vlogs. alway look forward to them ;
great vlog,we love it at tixal wide too.just at the end of your vlog the wife caught a glimpse of you tea/coffee/sugar canisters in the galley she loved them and would like to no where you got them please,cheers for now
Thanks. We would have loved to moor up there for a few days had we known about it sooner!
The tea/coffee/sugar containers are from Asda. They also have matching mugs!
Great vlog girls,shame rain stopped play,until next time Carry On Cruising.xx
The Staff & Worc is a delight to cruise on, deffo in my top 5 so far. Lovely vlog girls, hope your both well, and Munchy wasn't told off too much for escaping......
We are loving the Staff and Worc
Thanks to you guys I just subscribed to narrowboatgirl (EMMA) what a sweetie! Love your channel and always look forward to your video's.
Thanks!
cool, something to watch and enjoy
One of the nice things about boating on the broads (apart from no locks) is once can more in the middle of one of the broads using a mudweight, if there are no bankside moorings.
That does sound lovely
What happened to Munchy? Anna doesn't like tunnels. Thanks for the video. 👍 edit to add that 9pm is a really late start for any canal trip.
"We have hatches on both sides" - big smirk from Kath. And I thought you were better than that. 😉
🙀
Tixell wide when we came through we were hit with horizontal rain ! !
Lucky ladies
Yes the rich land owner did not want a basic canal across his land so an artificial lake was created.
If you can stop at Radford Bank and at Acton Trussell both have great pubs.
Lovely vlog , got me worried when you said munchies had jumped off lol , that posh house was a weird shape up on the hill , I think it's alot better when the canals are wider, especially when there's alot of bends in them , so I should think that part of the canal tix-all the boxes haha, doh lol .
He had escaped on to the stern, but not off the boat.
Loved the Staffs & Worcs but lousy weather in June meant that my plans to do the Severn and Avon this year were stymied by the heavy rain. So looking forward to your journey.
That’s a shame. We are hoping for some nice weather but I guess this “summer” might just be a wash out.
HI girls, another great vlog
Don't feel too bad about mistaking Tixall Wide - did EXACTLY the same a few years back, and battled with the waterlillies whilst winding and cursing "it's not THAT wide, what's all the damn fuss about?!"
Well turning around in that spot is doable, but it must have been quite funny in your mind when you replayed it.
@@TheNarrowboatExperience To quote Chris Rock "sure, you can steer a car with your feet, but that doesn't mean it *should* be done!". And yes, visiting Tixall Wide on foot a few years later was an....education :-)
I've always understood Tixall wide was built because the owner of Tixall House was objecting to the canal going through his land. It was after all the motorway of the time. So to placate him they built him a lake (with a canal going through it)
Be good to see this canal to the end, I've been following Phil on Narrow boat Journeys and it looks a fab place which is crying out for an 18ft Cabin Cruiser to come along, it could do a dance in the Tixall Wide. But sadly at the moment it is off to Sileby for anti fouling. Cheers and thanks.
WOOOW... read it on Facebook... you guys need a anchor. Placating the rich.... I believe that is the reason for wider canals and views.
It would be great if you could install a canopy where you stand to steer the boat at least you wont get wet and it'll keep you dry when it snows.
Sir Edward Aston of Tixal is my 12th great grandfather. He was High Sheriff .. three different times during the reign of Henry VIII and twice during the reign of Philip and Mary. The 16th century 3-storey gatehouse of the now-demolished Tixall Hall, was built by my Aston family. A free chapel has existed in Tixall since the 12th Century but the present church was built in 1848 by the Hon. John Chetwynd Talbot [my 8th cousin]. He was the son of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot.
Oh fab! Don't know when you recorded this.... I am here in Kinver this morning, turning around at the Stourbridge Arm Junction back down to Stourport Basin. Then coming back up Monday / Tuesday. x
Make sure you yell out if you see us
@@TheNarrowboatExperience I shall look out for you!
Love following your journey. How are you finding the new boat?.
We love the new boat
no, no, no. LoL LoL LoL
another great video.... :)
Exactly- he knows exactly when to escape
Just noticed your video from 3 years ago.Lazy dayz on the Aylesbury Arm. Was that a premonition? `spooky.
lol, forgot about that.
A 16-year-old Dietrich would have called a 360 a “donut.” Of course that would have involved a muscle car in an empty parking lot in upstate NY. :-)
Yes, I"m aware of donuts too. And it was fun that the boat could have done one and I wish it had lol
I was hopping you go a long Trent and Mersey Canal more and in to the Harecastle tunnel
We only ever planned to go as far as far as Barlaston. Minimal list will be going through the tunnel soon.
Nice video, where are the kitties? I miss seeing them both in your videos.
They were safe inside the boat.
Hiya. When Kath said she couldn't see, wouldn't the bow/tunnel light have been of use? Just wondering. And what happened regarding Munchie? All the best to you.
It wasn’t really dark, just dark enough that my tired eyes didn’t like it. I don’t think the tunnel light would have helped in this instance.
Do you have any pictures or videos of the sky on clear night when you are away from cities and towns?
Not really, it can get quite dark
@@TheNarrowboatExperience That's why I'm asking about night time photography ... it gets so dark out there it seems like the perfect opportunity
Good morning Kath and Anna, did Munchie just escape out the hatch or off the boat? I imagine there have been a few times you have been delayed by the whims of cats. Hope you are both well. Loved the vlog. Cheers Craig
Just out the hatch but as the canal was narrow over the aqueduct he could have made the jump to land if he’d tried. I had to let go of the tiller to grab him and post him back inside.
I just love you girls. Here in hot & dry Texas August it is so soothing watching you.
thanks for watching
Perhaps Munchy wanted to visit Cats monument in Shugborough
HelloHello today is my first day can you show me inside the boat please thank you I am from California
Did you see CAT MONUMENT on the map?
Yes, it is at Snugborough estate.
>^. .^< It is now Aug 19th here in Pennsylvania USA. I just looked at the weather map, another multi state wide weather front is headed my way as was the fact yesterday and the day before. So our weather is bound to be even worse than the weather you were cruising in at the end of this segment. Oh Well........
the weather is all over the place at the moment, where we are. Next week is even meant to be summer again.
If the cats escape do they attempt to jump to shore or just get in the way?
We keep an eye on them but they mainly get in the way and are a bit distracting. They’ve never tried to get to shore when we’ve been moving but they aren’t generally outside when we are close enough to the towpath for them to try!
maybe they needed more dirt to build the levees is the reason for wide water areas.
Nice relaxing vlog, as always. One question though, which masochist sat out in the rain in the blue chair?
Exactly - lol
Lovely views even if it included all those sheep butt's 😂. Cheers from the Chesapeake.
How many donuts do you do with your boat? Loved 😍 the vid keep it t
I wish we had, that could have been a whole real time episode lol
Will you be going all the way to Newport?
That's an interesting question- does the canal go past Gloucester?
@@TheNarrowboatExperience you need to take the River Severn and the Severn is navigable between Stourport and Sharpness - a distance of 50 nautical miles. The navigable route avoids the dangerous stretch of the river below Gloucester by using the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. And Sharpness is across the bay from Newport.
Did you stop and get any L&P sauce in Worchesteshire?😁
lol
I wish we had canals and narrow boats her 😢
>^, ,^< Sure you probably already heard this, but just in case you have not. No matter how tiny the shadow on your solar panel is, much much more power is lost than you think as far as according to the shadow's size. When a penel is evenly exposed to teh sun's photons (light) the electrons are forced to go out and do some work for you before returning to the solar panel. When even a small shadow is on the panel this dark spot provids a area where the free/homesick electrons can return home without doing any work for you. So try always root your rope so it lay next to the panel and does not create any dark spot on your PV panel's face since even small shadows are shortcuts back home for electrons....
I tried finding you both on Google Maps, tomany symilar names in the UK. I did fund the Staffordshire area but I kust like to paroose teh maps thats all....
its iof Miktons...
It's not so much the shadow on the panels when we are cruising- the engine charges the batteries. Yes, we are aware of good solar maintenance when moored up, but thanks. x
I wanna meet narrowboat girl im jealous!
You'd love her, she's very nice and personable.
hi loverly ladies hope you did not get to wet nice video as always.
tixall may be wide, but i was warned that it is shallow.
Good to know, thanks
Doing doughnuts in a canal boat? LOL
Exhausting??? LOL