https://youtu.be/vvPdzsL2Yjw In our last cruise together, The Narrowboat Experience and I travelled up the huge flight of Tardebigge Locks on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal. It was a long, tiring and wet day! Transcript Good morning. Why am I going backwards? Well today we’ve got a bit of an unusual rescue mission. Lazy Days from...
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https://youtu.be/ECsaDgd2WAg This is the last six locks before Tardebigge Locks where we have to complete a mega 36 locks in one day. So it’s enjoying the company and the gardens full of flowers along the way. In the distance, you can see the Droitwich Transmitter Station so I go take a look at them. Transcript...
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https://youtu.be/jLYzgYhyDcw Leaving Droitwich Spa we need to travel under the M5 Motorway bridge-tunnel. It is very low and impossible to know if it gets lower once you are inside. Plus Narrowboat Experience lock point scores – true or fake! https://artbyannamarie.com/product-category/narrowboat-experience-journey-with-jono/ Transcript Befor...
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https://youtu.be/8x-QrB-guf4 We continue up the Droitwich Barge Canal on a sunny summer day with the Narrowboat Experience. Molly is a good girl and obeys Anna-Marie and I capture a balancing squirrel! Transcript So Kath and Anna-Marie from Narrowboat Experience joined me last night to moor up here. It’s a little bit deceiving this canal beca...
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https://youtu.be/uI4YrxiFKOo Molly and I travel down the River Severn with Kath and Anne Marie from The Narrowboat Experience YouTube channel and turn onto the Droitwich Barge Canal. It was a fantastic, sunny day and we put our boats into fast mode and cruised next to each other. The Narrowboat Experience: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UColROazA5...
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I cruise narrowboat Alice up the River Severn to Worcester where I find out about where bottled water started, Worcestershire Sauce and climb the great Malvern Hills.
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https://youtu.be/nKUNJ3arylA I continue up the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal from Frampton on Severn towards the city. I pass the big red lightship in the dock and experience a noisy night due to local restaurants. Out in the county of Gloucestershire, I visit the Longstone of Minchinhampton which is said to have magical healing powers!
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I start my journey up the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal. I pass Purton where there is the largest collection of abandoned and beached boats in Britain. Speeding Cruiser Boats and summer cruising along this wide and deep canal.
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https://youtu.be/ykm9psbOKy8 I continue on a mammoth journey down the River Severn past the city of Worcester to Gloucester Lock. It’s a long and non-stop trip and I need to have everything on the stern ready for the day ahead. Molly my black labrador, however, is fast asleep for most of the journey.
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Heading south down the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal towards the Severn, I spot what I think is a Stoat. It bounced up a lock side and jumped into the water. little did it know Molly my labrador was watching. I was invited to Burgh Island Hotel on the south Devon coast for the weekend. It...
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