Alice
I hope you can see the light on this. It's quite beautiful isn't is?
yeah
really it's like a really white light Very low
Its low if you're cruising
good morning hello
Welcome Welcome
To day 1 To day 1 of the Narrowboat Experience exciting
12 days to bumble hole
bumble hole vlog
So the plan for today is to fill up with water
it's the last water point on the Ashby Canal And then we will get to the end of the canal and
exit the junction and
turn right - starboard
And then we'll be on the Coventry Canal where we will head
hopefully through Nuneaton and moor up there for the day
we're not going to go
up the locks today we're going tomorrow? Yeah
or we might moor up around Bridge 5 on the Ashby Canal
We haven't decided
we've been kinda taking it easy for the last week 2 weeks
because Kath injured herself
in the engine bay so i'm in charge of
the engine now
I'm loving it I have fixed everything
star (Music lyrics)
need someone to
any direction now would hell
let me give you a piece of it
she said
Oh
and why
- what you believe
we keep on dance
miss we've traveled five seeds of
me
let me give you a part of myself
to what you believe in.
we left so early this morning I didn't
even have time to eat my breakfast
to stay true to what you believe
girl sings you should spread your wings
I wanted to make a comment because we've
been continual cruisers now for
(maybe you should have counted before you started) five months and we I can
genuinely say I have run into not
literally some of the loveliest people
on the canal don't you think
today was no exception because we were
getting water and we forgot to get their
names but they were lovely and I just
kind of wanted to say that it's just
been really uplifting
you think five months of your life can
you honestly say at another time in your
life five months of your life you would
have met so many awesome people and
they're not our best friends but they're
really nice
hey I did like I'm not staying in touch.
like for not penpals or anything is what
I meant but just for people to be nice
is nice
so that's what I wanted to say
did you think they were your best friend
I think everybody I meet is my new best
friend
who could be my new best friend I have
an opening do you? No!
(Music- Lyrics) to what you believe in.
Changes
just stay true to what you believe
to what you believe in.
as we said this is going to be our first
real floating festival
so I'm looking forward to getting to the
Black Country
I'm really super nervous
for those of you that haven't heard of
Bumble Hole, which I imagine is
everyone do you think so don't you think
people in Birmingham know bumble hole a
lot of people we've said we're going to
bumble hole haven't believe us, it sounds rude.
It is near a place called Dudley
Also if you want to come,
then you can google it and turn up and
that would be awesome wouldn't it yeah
it's a two day long festival the car
parking it's free the festival has no
entry fee
if your local or
drive yeah parkings free that's pretty
awesome
and the organizers Jill and paddy because I
rang them and said this is this is our
first festival
they seemed really lovely and really
helpful because my issue was and we'll
have this issue on day 12 is how do you
moor- like how are you given your spot
so I'm really excited but I'm really
nervous I'm not nervous to sell things
because you know we stay afloat thanks
to everybody who supports us I'm kind of
just more nervous to to exhibit every
painting because you're putting
everything out there then aren't you
are you nervous
I'm trying to work out which side of the
boat is best no no have to pass I know
which side of the boat is least bad no
best
I think this side
I think if we can possibly have the
stuffs port side, because the
hatch is better on that side
definitely
go back to bed then go back to bed
they've kind of cut our lunch break short
because we're both tired and I fear that
if we don't start cruising again
straight away we're both gonna get too
tired to get going I've learned a lot
from 1979
it's really instilled a good work ethic
in me I was quite surprised because I
thought we were going to end up staying
with staying
well I feel like that's why you thought
just right near that bridge I think that
might be the key is finding really bad
lunch mooring spots
and then we'll keep going
but this is different in 1979 we don't
have to keep going but we have to be
there by the 12th
I want to say monumentous but it's not
really we're just exiting the Ashby
in one go
and just like that we are off the Ashby
canal and unto uncharted waters and by
that she means the Coventry canal
first impressions of the Coventry canal
Is there seems to be a lot more litter.
in the water, and
Debri
Well it could just be
that we are next to all the houses.
The allotments are behind me now
I think it is something to do, with being more built up
lots of busy roads
go over the canal
there's houses that overlook