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Welcome to Cruising Alba
We invite you to join us on our adventure living off-grid and travelling the UK canal network
I'm Myles and I'm Marina
So just finished my yoga practice and while I was here on the floor I realized it need to hovering
so I'm gonna go and have raw cacao and get on with editing
if you guys are wondering where Myles is he is here on the boat
he's in the other room, we keep swapping he's working he's got loads of meetings today so
you're not going to see him for the first half of the vlog but we are cruising in the evening
and he's obviously going to be free so he's going to make an appearance in the second half
I have to blend in the bedroom because Myles is on the call so I brought everything here
I haven't really filmed here yet so this is the bedroom
right so I'm going to finish my cacao and get on with work I've got an episode to edit today
Do you want a cup of tea? No thank you
okay
I spend the majority of my day editing episodes putting the story together doing research
voice overs and anything else to do with youtube, answering emails, comments stuff like that
I get done the most on the days when I wake up and sit down to do editing straight away that means
often I work really long days starting at six am finishing at eight or ten o'clock at night
that gives me flexibility to take a day off here and there
if I'm too tired or I'm not feeling creative at all because you can't really force yourself making something if the inspiration isn't flowing
I can do some technical stuff, there is stuff I can do on youtube
These days are quite rare they don't happen often but in order to release a video every week I need to make sure that
if it happens on the certain week the video gets done
The sky has been so grey in the last few days literally you can wake up
seven am, two o'clock, seven pm the light looks the same you could just film and put everything
in the reverse order and it will still look like a normal day and I've just noticed some cloud
definition on the horizon I wonder if that means that this veil of grayness is going away
Myles just stole my spot on the boat he was in the middle of the call and the internet cut out
so he had to quickly move somewhere where he knew 100% you can get good signal so
he's in on the bed now and all my stuff is on there and he's on another call
I'm taking a five minute break and then I'm gonna try and fetch stuff out without being noticed
I've decided that instead of going back to episode editing I will do some calligraphy
A couple of days ago I filmed episode numbers from
12 to 20 and i've been using such a flimsy setup that is just a very low quality so
i'm going to up my game a bit and use a proper tripod and see if i can do a better job
Well it's just got really warm and i'm thinking of going for a swim
i'll go test the water first
ah it's refreshing
it's a bit cold but I reckon as soon as I get in I'll
I'll enjoy it. i just don't know where to get in I need a beach
I'm ready! I think I'm gonna row to the other side and do a slow walk in I don't like jumping in
fine I'm in it's not too cold at all
it's just unpleasant
Well that was a lot of fun! I just wish
you could swim in the canals I would have even taken up winter swimming I think
Are you finished? He is finished work that means we can go yeah? yeah!
Hey goose
you look like geese in Russia you're white We are about to go and it's raining what I'm
excited about is leaving this red internet signal behind don't let it fool you it's red
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Now the engine is on it is a great opportunity to turn on the airfryer and make potatoes
So i'm gonna get on that now because it's raining anyway what's the point of getting wet here
I can't believe two hours ago I was hot enough to consider going for a swim and then going
for a swim and now i'm wearing millions of layers about to put on a hat it's so cold
we made a stop for dinner so we hope to stay here with good internet but the internet is
not good at all so we're just gonna wait until it stops drizzling at least it gets
a little bit drier and then we'll go and do another hour
How are your shoes? These ones aren't that wet, the other ones are soaked
Where are you?
We couldn't find a turning switch for the hose so we but we found another tap
this is our chimney
chimney hot tub
I don't want to get it dirty it's way too new for that
this is the lock Eynsham lock where I
accidentally kicked in this GoPro on the way here and Myles had to swim in it this is it
thank you guys for watching our day in a life Myles a little bit upset that he hasn't
made an appearance much in this episode but I have been on the phone all day he
has been, he has been working hard so did I in a different way obviously, this is just
our day-to-day so it doesn't seem that interesting to me so if you guys
found it interesting let me know in the comments so maybe we can do more of that
it is day to day it's not amazingly exciting but i have had an exciting day it's been rainy and wet
yeah we made the most of it we are in Eynsham Lock just outside of Eynsham lock which is fantastic
because it's only 15 minutes walk to the nearest post office and there's a tiny shop so we can at
least pick up some vegetables it's the first time we've moored onto some mooring pins and
it feels really nice to be like sturdy attached to the bank so we've been like winging it with
pins and ... needles! and noodles?there's bins here and water yeah that's your favorite things
i'm taking recycling bin today thinking i've never ever in my life emptyed recycling this often
I feel like I just do this every three days What's happening ?
I've got pube my mouth oh no they're all over me!
yeah it's from the mirror from when you cut my hair yep stop licking yourself and that's
a wrap guys thanks for watching make sure you like and subscribe and hit that bell icon there
A few weeks ago we had a zoom call with our friends and they did online zoom party so
i took out from under the bed which is really hard to get into because you've got to lift
this heavy mattress so i took out my festival hats because i didn't know what i wanted to wear
and since then we haven't been under the bed so they're all still out
Right here so i'm going to show you mine, a few of my hats
This is life! This one I got as a present from my friend Sez, the next one is broken unfortunately
I will fix it before the next festival season which is probably next year here it is it has
a light on as well it is probably out of battery and the last one I made myself last year that is
pretty impossible to wear and also it's so loud I really like it but when i wear it i didn't realized
how much attention it brings just because the colors and shine anyway
that is my hat collection
Which one is your favourite?
Tune in on saturday for the journey back to magnificent Oxford
Myles is finally getting his new toy that I was getting pretty sick
of hearing about and we have another boat problem to fix
See you next one