Dreaming Spires of Oxford. Narrowboat Life on UK's Canals - Episode 137
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
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Take a look around Oxford with us and we cruise to get through a river section now it's no longer in flood.
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Very hard day but don’t you feel good with everything done. Have a good rest. Thankyou for showing us the view of Oxford from the tower. You must be tingling with all that effort!!keep safe ❤❤
After that rush to get past the canal blockage and to get restocked, you deserve to snuggle down beside your stove with a bottle of wine. Best wishes from Cambridge, Canada.
Hi Fran and Rich, great to see you again, doing what you do well, that was enjoyable, thank you.
Brrr you certainly showed how cold it is there. But the stove looks so cozy and warm.
Finally, I´m just a bit more than a year after you and as snacks to this film I had some Swedish apples of the season.
A nice Friday night viewing, better than telly any day xx
Thank you x
Always great to see your next upload! That was quite a day of motoring. Thank you!
Love Oxford, used to go there with my daughter, she always bought a Lardy Cake from the undercover market to take home for her Dad. She sadly died eight years ago and I never went back there, but it is a beautiful city.
Sorry to hear that. We had a few lovely visits to the market but no Lardy cake xx
Oh well done guys on yr buzy day a well derserved wine alright,,thanks for walking up all those steps for us for the view,awesome,take care.🐶🐶🍄💐🌻🌼🌞
It was good to do after the excesses of Christmas.
Thanks for posting and sharing. Very nice to s👀 the views of Oxford from the tops of the stairs you climbed to shoot them🙂👍
Looks cold, lovely and quiet though :)
LOVELY, LOVELY
Great to see you again. Thanks for the Oxford tour. My wife and I and our offspring lived in Abingdon, about 6 miles south of Oxford, for the best part of 20 years. We moved away in the early 2000s. So Oxford is very familiar to us. Interesting to see the city again after about 15 years. I used to walk along the Thames path and the canal towpath for exercise. Anyway, your climbing all those stairs to give us a great view over Oxford was much appreciated. And your 8 mile cruise north on the Oxford Canal was quite the marathon. Wishing you both some wonderful cruising in 2020 -- and more town and city tours would be great too!
Thanks Barney we are hoping to do a lot of off walking tours this year.
Hi great to see you both out and about again. Oxford looks great and hope you both enjoyed the wine 🥂 cheers x
You always find the perfect music for your videos. Thank You.
Glad you like it
Oxford is beautiful..happy journey as you press on. Love watching.
Thank you so much!
Super music at 14:49 - 16:25! Lovely to see you back again and looking forward to your adventures in 2022!
Thanks so much!
Great video and accompanying music. So atmospheric. Thanks both.
Oxford was lovely and wow, you got a lot done. Hope you settled in to a cozy stay. Cheers
Glad you posted, It makes me feel good to know you are out, doing well and "floating your boat".
Happy new year! I appreciate your balance. You share that not everything is sunshine and rainbows, but still find joy and satisfaction in the imperfection. And Rich, super groovy musical selections!
Thanks Maggie. Great feedback. Rich loves choosing the music for each episode. X
long live the eels............
Music is nice, but I'd much prefer the sounds of people on the towpath talking, dogs barking, waterfowl noises and naration. Just my 2 cents. :)
Welcome back. Lovely to see you travelling again. X
Love beautiful Oxford - thanks for bring us along on you visit. Looking forward to joining you on your travels in 2022.....Chris x
It was so nice to see you Both again.
Bravo! So glad you made it! Whew! Enjoy!
Lovely vlog. Looking forward to our spring and summer cruising. Jenny and Trev NB life of Riley x
Keep warm xx
It’s interesting from an Alaskan stand point how canal people find it so cold with green grass and plants and open water. We had five days last week with lows at -40 or lower. (-40F and -40C are equal!). Both rivers on the way to town in the Copper Basin are completely frozen over and part of the Copper Basin 300 mile sled dog race occurred during the cold snap. So have fun and keep warm!
I know we are a lot of wimps here!
Great Vlog. Loved the video and the music. Oxford looks nice. Glad you are back! Stay warm. 😊
Lovely 😊
Wow, Oxford looked so interesting but you two look cold, stay safe and warm.
It was cold but so cosy back on the boat
Yeah Fran, get that wine open!!! Thank you for posting..🙂
Great video stay warm and we look forward to .it's film nd cruising with you x,
Good to see you going again!
January is a great time to visit Oxford. Between March and November is not so good, everybody else is there!
Sounds like we timed it well then 😊
Nice to see you both. Oxford looks like a lovely city. Glad you got out ahead of the closure. Take care. Nick
You would love it, there are allotments everywhere!
Great to have you back. I could see how cold you were as your skin was nearly blue! Bet that 1st glass of vino snuggled up by the fire tasted wonderful 😁🍷🍷
It always tastes better by the fire.
Pissarro, oh my, I wrote a paper on him while I was in college, love his work!
Oxford is a lovely place to visit.....there is a pub there which has an amazing collection of ties....if you go in with one they have not got they will cut it off to add to the display....thee pub is called The Bear Inn....it is the oldest pub in Oxford.....
Oh no, we missed that!
Hi. Tony from Narrowboat Verity. So nice to meet you in person.
Lovely to meet you too Tony. Enjoy your trip x
Yeah, i must agree that the music is to my taste, great stuff!!
Glad you like it
Great vlog
U guys look so happy
👍👍👍
Omg, all those steps! I’m sure the climb warmed you u some. I just didn’t realize how big Oxford is. Get some tea in ya and get to moving!!!!! Stay warm.
It certainly got the heart pumping, a good recovery day from Christmas excess.
Just catching up = You are back !!! Wonderfull. Cruising and getting off the boat , visiting places and up steps I cannot now make ! I love it, Greetings from Katy Texas USA ! Living my life through you.
Thank you so much x
@@FloatingOurBoat Y'all are most welcome back ! I like cruising vids but the life has to be about getting off the boat and exploring which you do well ! I grew up in the UK but between college and work never explored ! Doing this with a wine watching your great vids was a pleasure, glad you are back !
Great to see you floating your boat again and that your both well
We are, thank you x
HAPPY NEW YEAR Folks
I lived in the County just on outskirts of Henley on Thames for 60 years so Oxford a familiar site for me I fished on the canals and rivers in the area for many years so happy memories.
Safe Journey.
Hey guys great seeing you guys nice video Thank you 👍
I enjoyed those views of Oxford. I bet you found lots of creative inspiration
Aww….missed Thrupp. One of my favourite parts of the Oxford.
We would have liked to stop there but time did not allow and it was all a bit hectic for filming
Superb. Great to see you both again looking happy and relaxed apart from tired at end of day. But great video and filming. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
ty for a lovely vlog nice to see your both well and look forward to seeing more vlogs
Good to see you back. Thanks for posting. Have a great year.
I think Oxford is such a unique town. Lol the bells! The bells! I’ll be watching this tonight but wanted to say Hello and say I’m looking forward to your video! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!
You are welcome
Great vlog guys thanks 😁👍👏👏👏
Just love watching the boat traveling along the canal, so relaxing passing through the countryside 😍
Thank you for taking us to "Morse" country. I always loved the buildings when watching Morse so it's nice to see the streets in slow mode. =-)
You're back!!
An extremely productive day you all have had. Hot showers and nice glass of wine, a good book, then a greats nights sleep. Take care you two. Be well 🤗💕
WE did sleep really well that night despite being next to a train line!
Lovely to see Oxford & the Oxford canal. I'm really missing the canals since selling the boat in February 2020. I have some lovely memories of the Oxford canal, cruising along with my late husband. Thanks both.
Aaww, hope we brought back some happy memories for you x
Fab as usual. Good to see your smiling faces.
Lovely seeing you both again xx
😊 thank you
Yeaaaaaa one of my all time favorite you tubers have posted again , now its Friday and I can cast a huge smile all day , glad to see you all are well and thanks for sharing this great video , love and hugs from the states
Wow, thank you!
@@FloatingOurBoat your very welcome but I can only speak the truth ...
It's so good to see you guys again!!! ❤
I saved this one! Wonderful! Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful!
Loved the tour around Oxford.
Next best thing to being there ..thankyou and Happy 2022
great music towards the end. Love your channel.
Thank you very much!
Thank you for the tours, always interesting. Stay safe and warm. Tonight, here at home (Ontario, Canada)it is going down to minus 24C. I shall be well under the covers!!😳
Bbbrrrhhhh!!
There is also the Pitt Rivers museum and the covered market is worth a visit. Enjoy your cruising.
WE did go to the fab market, but I'm afraid we missed the museum. Just to much to do.
So glad you enjoyed my home of Oxford, you captured it beautifully! Thank you for another great video, lovely to see you all cosy in your lovely boat, with all those tasks done, at the end! 😊💐😘
Thanks so much! 😊
The Oxford canal is how I got obsessed with narrowboats. It was in an episode of Lewis and I fell in love with the fabulous idea of living on a long narrow boat and cruising canals. Before that, I had no idea. I really enjoyed the tour around Oxford. It's such a lovely city.
That's lovely.
Hope you are well.
We are fine thank you x
Several decades ago, I visited Oxford, and just loved it. Something about it felt familiar. Some day, i hope to visit again and spend at least a couple of days there.
Yes, I really enjoy that feeling of getting everything done. A glass of wine (or two) is very much in order.
🤩thank you for sharing
Our pleasure 😊
Good to see you again. Great photography. Have a wonderful New Year.
Happy New Year! Thank you for taking us along.
You folks really captured Oxford skyline,fantastic! Stay warm, its -12F here in NE pennsylvania
Hi Fran & Rich, so wonderful to see you both! Well you both certainly got your steps in Oxford, the views were spectacular! Hope you're feeling better Rich. Glad you got moored okay. Hope you enjoyed your well earned glass of wine! Please give the dogs a cuddle for me! Thank yo so much for sharing, take really good care of yourselves, stay well! Much love Kathy x 💖
Thanks so much! 😊
So nice to see Oxford! Was there in 1999!
So good to see you both again and to know you had a good Christmas and well-deserved break in Oxford. Looking forward to joining you on your travels throughout 2022. Stay safe.
Watched this video as im relaxing from my night shifts. You both bring such enthusiasm to life itself. Your positivity as you go one your adventures shows on your videos. We can clearly see you both have such zest for life. Keep enjoying your cruising 😀
Thank you Tracy, We do try to enjoy life as much as we can x
OMG! It's so good to hear from you both!
Thank you xx
@ about 11:10 beautiful kite.. on this side of the pond ours arent as big or colorful, thanks for sharing. Falconry centers actually train em for display, they certainly wouldnt put food on the table but nonetheless they are fun to see
There are lots of them in this area, but this one seemed to like circling the boat. Beautiful birds.
Great Video :)
So happy to seeing parts of the England again. I don't know why I'm so amazed when you show us BIG cities. From all the books I've read about the UK I always felt it was full of little villages. Love, love, love that groovy background music!
Glad you like the music Carol. I guess there are big cities all over the world, but quaint English villages only in England.
Nice to see you folks again. Another beautiful video, what a treat to see Oxford.
It's good to see you again. You've been missed. I loved the music you chose for this episode.
Thank you x
I live in a village just outside Oxford so often forget how much history there is!
Nice to see you back again, you've been missed. Just one tiny quibble, music a little loud. Have to keep turning it down for music and up again to hear what you are saying. And I never want to miss a word. PS Love your Oxford visit.
Sorry about that it is difficult to get the sound right for every ones systems.
Lovely trip....One of your best vids....
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi , thank you for showing the view of Oxford from high up there. Great, what a beautiful city. and lovely to see you both on your travels again.
Our pleasure!
2 months, 137 videos & 137👍 later and I’ve caught you up, what wonderfull journey it has been. Looking forward to 2022 adventures, thanks for taking us all along. x
Wow, that is a marathon. Well done and thank you ♥
Happy New Year both glad all is well. Brought back memories of our trip last year on the Oxford and River Cherwell. 👍🏻😊😘
Great to see you both again... Happy New Year, and many more to come. CCHHEERRSS
Hi kids. Happy New Year! Great video in Oxford. Fantastic music, Rich. Love your scarves, Fran.
Thank you xx
Happy new year to you both,thank you for another brilliant video I forgot how beautiful Oxford is ..
what a fantastic vlog.. ty guys xxxx
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it
Love you guys, wish I could be with you at some point in your journey, but alas I am heading to my 71st birthday in June 2022. Take care my friends, love, peace and happiness. xx
Just a youngster James.
I’m excited for y’all to have had such a good day. Our after hour of determination paid off! I have days like that now and then myself, so I understand how fine y’all feel. Thank you so much for the Oxford videos and touring along with y’all as you were with here and there. It’s a beautiful place, my son and I got to be there for just a few hours when we were on vacation in September, 2018. It’s a place I would love to go and visit again!
We still missed so much of Oxford but were happy to be cruising again. Hope you get to return someday x
When looking down from the tower didn't half feel Queasy 😕
Glad I didn't do it x