it's been almost three years since we left the landline
and moved on to our 62-foot narrowboat album we made this sleep without knowing anyone who
had experience living aboard or having any understanding about boy life at the time we
lived in london and craved new experiences we wanted to add more adventure to our day-to-day
naturally after some successful months and years of traveling on alba we spread the boating bug to
others and there are now four other boats in our circle one of them is bales the tour
of which is featured in episode 29 and to this day it is the most popular video on our channel
hello guys we're in york today on a spontaneous visit to kuala lumpur and we are cruising on
their boat bails to york cruising with bails today do you have a vlog do we have a plan i think we
are cruising from york marina to york and then we're going to stay there tonight and then
back to tomorrow tour of york is coming up
york is one of the oldest cities in england
it was founded by pre-roman britons and when romans got to york around the year 71 a.d they
it their capital there has even been an imperial palace here in 200 a.d but it didn't survive
the name to the city was given in the 9th century by danish vikings who originally coded jorvik
put it in reverse
center
are we clear at the front
i don't think
she's in how is uh driving bails with a steering wheel
oh it's very different driving with a steering wheel you don't know where your tiller is there
is no tiller well there is a tiller it's just connected with the steering wheel well there's a
rudder okay there is no chiller there's no tiller as such yeah um notes you're fine interesting
gracie
miles what is your connection to york well i used to work here for three years yeah and and
obviously colin my uncle and my nan lived up for gosh nearly 20 years now i guess so always used
to come here at christmas lovely city i love you all it's probably one of the best cities in the uk
yorkminster is beautiful it's the largest ancient gothic cathedral
in northern europe it's my favorite church its origins go back to the 7th century
when a wooden church was built for the baptism of king edwin
the minster that we see today took 250 years to build and it was completed in the 15th century
the city of york was once known as the chocolate city with four big factories in town i can
only imagine the air would smell of chocolate and a thick chocolate dust would cover every
surface as it erupted from the city's chocolate factories all the good days
i couldn't resist i bought three types of hundreds of chocolates so it's all shin-free
almond orange and hampers yourself
i mean what is the point when i step onto your rocus applause make me feel like a superstar
you can't leave york without going to the shambles one of the best preserved medieval streets
in the world it's at least a thousand years old however this charming street has a twisted past
it was a street of butchers shops and houses complete with slaughterhouses at
the back providing a fresh supply of meat the meat was hung up outside the shops and
it's still possible to see some of the original butcher's meat hooks attached to the shop fronts
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since roman times york has been defended by walls of one form or another to this day
substantial portions of the walls remain and york has more miles of intact wall than any other city
in england the original walls were built around 71 a.d when romans erected a fort here but the walls
we see today were built mainly in the 13th century they are known as york city walls or the barbells
there are four main gatehouses or bars in medieval times these restricted traffic
and were used to extract tolls as well as being defensive positions in times of war
how
750 years old
how is it being back in york yeah it's nice i love york such a lovely city
have you enjoyed it yeah i loved it i realized i've been here
at the similar time of the year about three no four years ago walking the walls
no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
after staying the night we made our way back to the marina
i was lost in a city and i was at home again beside the stream
then you walked past me and you saw me and smiles
i will never forget the first time
when i saw you i thought i lost my mind
did you just see the ice cream boat no i missed it there was an
actual ice cream boat i was showing you um but i filmed it just in case you didn't see it so
apologies for the shaky camera but yeah there's an ice cream boat that like mr floaty top
it's nice better than that really nice i'd have a hot tub at the front here i'm cheaped
out on not having the hot tub option but you could definitely have a hot tub here it might be a cold
tub though no you just get a lot of burner one that would would fire eggs would fire hot tub yeah
even if i fail you are like a summer breeze
that i must inhale is it possible for us to feel this way forever
loving you has never felt more right
so just park parallel parked bales we're coming like down river so we've got the flow behind us
and it's like 30 time boat this is and it's got steering wheel so it's a bit different
yeah anyway so pulled alongside these and how it did it is basically slow down pretty much sort of
to a stop and then you have to like stop using this to sort of steer put it on like full lock
and then i don't know giving a bit of blasting forward to push back in and
luckily i've got a bow thruster as well so basically just
stopped it and brought in sideways it's good though it's a challenge it was very challenging
you just have to stay calm well done and you just have to stay on top of the elements as
well so you have to be on top of the flow because you don't want to get carried away
it'll stop but then it just starts again
we're taking jen's car for a spin because i've never been in a convertible
we're having a convertible experience just gonna drive around a village
give it a go get a convertible mini give it a go
we've got the windows fully down now so it's a lot louder but
a lot of fun we're not even going that fast
glad the sun is out i think it's making the experience much better
how was that for you really fun i loved it yeah was it a mini adventure it was a
journey adventure there's a mini adventure
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