I can totally cross locks hello and welcome to the narrowboat experience today
we're going on a journey with Jono to Droitwich spa yay Jono helped,
helped yeah he did he did some helping for us to get onto
the Severn and to get down here to the Droitwich badge canal and today we are
heading towards droitwhich spa itself it was a really really nice day to
travel down the river Severn it was lovely and calm it's like a Mill Pond yeah and
there were only there was one big lock to go through and there was only one
hooligan on the river ducking and weaving he was terrible I
really liked going in parallel down rivers with other people and it was a
new experience for these two yeah so it was just really it was a really lovely
day and we've moored up in a fantastic location and and off we go today yeah so
join us with Jono and the narrowboat experience and now we don't know how to
end this we cast off from our little mooring just before Bridge 5 on the
Droitwich Barge Canal it's a short walk to the Lock so not worth me even getting
on board Lazydays we have five locks to complete today before we finish the day
in Netherwich Basin we have left ourselves about three hours for this
journey because the weather and company are too good to rush
Kath's unmooring and Jono is going to help her and I have Molly the dog as
company which is awesome because Molly loves everything
so Molly and I are best friends now I asked her to sit there while they did
the whole lock and even when Jono he came back to his boat and when his boat
came in and he came and helped and then went back on his boat she still didn't
even move so she got a pat for that she's very very obedient so adorable
okay I'm Molly's being super obedient and adorable
the first lock she cried when Jono left and this time good girl she just
waited and she was fine there's no crying this time but I might tell Jono
there was anyway because he was so happy last time
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The Droitwich Barge Canal is one of two canals in Droitwich it makes up
the Mid Worcestershire ring it also takes into account that ring
takes into account the Severn the Worcester and Birmingham Canal
we're not doing the whole ring but that is definitely one that this part of the
ring that we've traveled in the last little while is definitely been
beautiful and not very busy at all it is the beginning of awesome end of summer
the days have been perfect and a little bit of rain forecast in our
future but then we just got a moor up for a couple of days and get some work done.
Jono would often arrive at the lock before us moor up with the center line and
start to empty the lock Molly would of course supervise
the great thing about travelling together is we all got to
swap over and share the locks.
Mind your step Kath.
so we're looking for a spot to moor up we were thinking Droitwich spa basin
is that got recommended to we're also thinking of somewhere just
before we're not hundred percent sure because
we think Jono's giving us the slip he won't tell us where he's mooring and
he raced out of that last lock like
this is something we said just kidding we are still following each
other we're still best friends but now yeah well I'm his best friend
but he's my second-best friend. Is that because Molly's your best friend?
You're my best friend.
What about all your other best friends?
and Karen imagine Louie
and Mandy, and CC, CC would be relieved not to be my best
friend he'll be like thank goodness
our caution sign your favorite. My caution, a caution sign in
sized eight font, I'll show you I can read the word caution
when I saw that the Droitwich Barge Canal was a wide beam you know I was
quite looking forward to the change from all the narrow canals that we
recently however since we've got on it it's just
been like driving through a tunnel of reeds
You cannot see anything in the distance except the close up reeds.
And I can,
the lock are wide enough for a wide beam craft, the river is wide enough for a wide
beam craft but I wouldn't want to approach a wide
beam in my little boat.
Because I think it would be pretty hard to go past.
there are these little signs throughout the Droitwich Barge Canal on the side
of the towpath that have a little audio mic and a sign say something like
Droitwich Canal audio tour and then it's got a little number so you must be
able to do a towpath audio to it here which sounds
not exactly like a through the hedge but it does sound like something you might
be interested in we're not a hundred percent sure where to get these audio
tours from so if you are from the area please leave us a comment below so we
know we're here we could actually grab the audio to offer so I happen to think
you don't regularly look after your swing bridges you can overcome with
reeds. Like all of Droitwich barge canal. The weedy canal. Put that on a
t-shirt it was reeds yeah and they probably most definitely house a lot of
wildlife and also do a good job in helping filtrate the water system and
maintain the quality of the bank yes when we're not complaining where we are
but you know we understand the benefit
yeah
and there is Jono in the distance on the right it would be not to moor
right next to him wouldn't it how will the cat's ever become best friends with
Molly if we don't at least keep them close to each other
we hope you've enjoyed our journey with Jono into Droitwich spa next week we
begin a crazy competition to see who can do the most cheating
I mean locks in a day click the subscribe button now so that you don't
miss out thanks for watching every time you do a lock you get a point but it's
not 100% fair for Jono because you can't do a whole lock because he doesn't
have very much energy and there's not to me I haven't trained Molly up yet
if they haven't brought a windless off the boat why are they off the boat looks
like I'm winning Molly
is as usual driving the boat