219A Slow TV: Fradley to Handsacre
I know some folk hate these real-time bow camera recordings and would prefer the usual vlog with commentary – but other folk love them hence why I continue to upload them occasionally. If you’re one of the former, panic not; do not wail and gnash your teeth for another standard vlog will be coming along next.
Start point: https://goo.gl/maps/hccTP76t1NhLvFdV6
End point: https://goo.gl/maps/4M2a4Qwp1xg3ZaYWA
Thank you so much for this. It helps with the gutted feeling I get when I think about not being able to travel from Oregon to the Midlands for our yearly canal boat trip. The birdsong is delightful. I miss it all so much. The closed pubs are sad to see, but I guess they are now open. The USA is in such a sad state that it will be very cold in hell before anyone lets us into their country again. Thanks again.
Frank
It’s all very sad indeed, I agree. The pubs are open, sort of, with strict distancing requirements, one-way systems, screens and so on but they seemed to be doing a decent trade when I went past some in the boat a week or so ago.
Tow paths look quite overrun with flora. Looks like CRT has a backlog of work in store for them
Very much so but they have started on it
Pleasantly boring, as a Canadian I no idea where we were? .On screen short text, of bridges, might have been helpful. Names .of birds and songs that followed as we past hither and yon. Where I live, would have been Red Wing Black Birds, they like marsh lands but probably unknown in Briton. Enjoy all your videos, excellent commentary, without being a travelogue
Hi. Map links are in the video description. I specifically don’t add annotations or commentary to these so as not to distract from the experience of “being there”, that’s the idea of these “not a vlog” slow TV videos.
See CC I did tell you
I am a Canadian as well living on Vancouver Island and since I am interested I do one of three things. Follow along if I have a book, look to my system map to locate things or call up a separate window for the CRT maps and toggle between them. https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-network
Works a charm and not at all boring to a canal nut.
A beautiful little run. Is it just me, or is everywhere just looking so much more lush & greener and appearing so much more teanquil in its nature.
It definitely is, partly because of lockdown and partly as the weather’s been alternately rain and sunshine in the last few weeks!
Very nice. Looks so tranquil makes me want to be there.