Goodness David, why do I feel so moved? Is it the captivating scenery, the curious history, the lovely peace, the ease of movement, your aloof, carefree, snail like existence and leisurely uneventfulness which thrills and moves me to tears? Perhaps......it's all of them. Many thanks for sharing.

I LOVE your dry sense of humor David! And your videos, they are lovely and so informative! Thanks for all your hard work..Cherrio👌🏻

Legends tell of a great, ghostly power station, that pulls itself up in the dead of night to stealthily creep about the canal routes....😆

Excellent, tranquility at its best. I have to be honest, I do envy you a little. Fantastic vlog as always. Very much appreciated, thank you!

I discovered your channel just yesterday and have just finished watching your entire collection. Pretty much back to back. With the exception of the odd break to put the kettle on and a sleep. I am not a narrowboat owner myself, I am more of an inshore small fishing boat kind of chap. The call of the open sea you might say. That being said, My old dad did have a 32ft senior cabin cruiser on the calder and Hebble navigation when I was young. Many a peaceful day cruising from Calder Grove Wakefield to Lincoln. I love the videos, extremely addictive and informative viewing. The professional journalistic influences and skills you employ in these vlogs are a credit to both your former vocation and an inspiration I'm sure to many who would be considering taking to the water, or simply making You Tube content themselves. Great work. Thanks for sharing and I'm looking forward following your adventure......

Hi, I am an American, Cabin Cruiser type boater, that is getting older and learning to appreciate the slower simpler life that the narrowboats seen to represent. Really enjoying your channel.

So beautiful. I long to visit England again. Too old now to travel by plane, so your videos are a gift to me. The trash in the water enrages me. I want to take the culprits and shake them till their teeth fall out.

As usual, your videos are great! I'd love to take a year off of work and explore the canals, simply because your videos are so grand! Well done sir!

Exquisitely pretty where 'the canal speaks for itself'. Such sights are sufficient to cause ancestral legacies in an old Aussie a measure of longing to visit places ancient racial memories hold in the deepest vaults of being.

The canal does speak for itself, it says I am beautiful, love me ...and we do. Your canal system is a national treasure.

Another winning blog. I am watching you from Vancouver, BC in Canada

I too wish your episodes were longer. ☺️ Lovely as always David. Thank you.

well filmed....good vocabulary...good prononciation...I have never been in England and with you I improve your langage...I am french

As always I look forward to your blogs. Thank you for all the work you do to bring us along. Safe journey.

Love your humour - I agree about the Stephen King novel bit!😄

Great really David...thnk you so much....im italian and i watching you from tenerife

The railway companies purchased the canals to transport the building materials, ballast, sleepers and rails, for building the railways, They then closed the canals to eliminate the competition.This is why there are railway lines adjacent to the canals. Also, the canals followed the contours of the land and made it easier build the railways, without spending moneys of additional surveying.

Yes, I am sitting with my mug of earl gray tea near to my left hand. Thanks for all you do! TM who likes the canals

that water was smooth as glass... making for great reflections of the trees and buildings... photographers dream shot... great video....haircut makes you look younger too...... :-)

Nothing but miserable grey, wet and chilly weather here. Gets me right in the bronchials. Choke choke. Makes for dreadful inertia and ennui. So a touch of lovely canal side is much appreciated. Duckies! Sheep! And that stonking great Hall has a herd of cows to mow the lawn. Must be nice.

3:36 the idea of a massive power station stalking you through the countryside absolutely slays me

Nice haircut David, dapper as a freshly painted bollard!

weather turned but still lovely on a narrowboat with the fire going and a mug of steaming hot tea. Great scenery filmed - thankyou 🎀

You are getting better and better at this vlog stuff CTC !! Looking forward to seeing the next one !

another amazing Vlog. my wife and I are considering living aboard and we are finding your Vlogs very helpful so thankyou. who knows we may see you on the cut... keep them coming !!!

Thanks David, another entertaining episode 😃👍👏👏👏👏

I really chuckled at your commentary in the "really tight bit" I admit I laughed out loud indeed.

Nice video, as always! I wouldn't mind to see more of the "busy work". Like fastening the boat when you stop, preparing a meal, talking to people (if they agree to be on the video...) This would also mean we get to see more of your boat. =) I know this a lot of additional work, so I wouldn't be terribly sad if you can't or don't want to do it.

For this not being a "scenery" episode, that was some of the nicest I've seen.

Great stuff, as usual, David. But we miss you here!

Tea sipped, lunch ready, shugborough added to the list of places I will wave my national trust card at when some form of normality returns. May be just one more vlog before I retire for an afternoon nap (pre night shift). I seem to have nearly reached triple figures in the last week! It's been lovely too see the random corners of the country you can get to by canal. Thank you!

What a beautiful stretch you had today! bravo! for picking up garbage on your way! you're a gem!

I needed to finish packing for another trip from home for work, but had to stop and watch. Now double time to finish my packing. Thanks for a nice quiet start to my day! Wonderful as always.

I say I was having a glass of cold ice tea while watching this video. I truly enjoy watching your narrow boat cruising. It's so British....there's nothing like it in the States.

finally caught up with you. great travelogue. thanks.

Love the videos. I have a friend who while I was stationed at Mendenhall AFB, let me use 1 of those boats, even thou it was 1/2 the length. I would travel for a month, when I had a chance. Enjoyed it immensely.

Man love your vids and yes agree with Al t, would love to get my passport and come over and just spend a year touring around the canals, one day. The dream lives on. Keep up the great vids!

Stunning scenery, I can almost smell the country air.

Beautiful section of canal.

The scenery is absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for sharing it with us. Your hair cut is also very pleasing to the eye. I hope you're ok in this wind and rain - it feels like winter again today.

Armitage famous for its Armitage shanks bathroom fittings and one of the sponsers of the " loo of the year" award.. Thanks David.

My only grandson is named HAYWOOD, so I was so pleased to see. Great Haywood.... Love the ducks so very much.

Great vlog very enjoyable your getting ever closer to that Harecastle tunnel. That will be a nervy adventure. But until then enjoy the great scenery. Been a great pick me up on a cold wet Tuesday cheers for uploading

Thanks David, it's great to see some of my favourite places again!

Beautiful as always. Glad you spared us the plastic litter.

One of my favourite stretches of canal that I have travelled on. The Armitage Tunnel looked pretty scary:even worse if you are negotiating it solo. A lovely video with superb commentary. Beautiful scenery. By chance I was drinking tea when you instructed me to do so during a montage.Thank you

As a Canadian we do speak English, however not like you do. It is very refreshing to hear English spoken properly and to me, it adds a lot to the overall experience. Thank you.

the canal views(sort of like tree tunnels) are breathtaking ...so many pretty scenes along the way...and variety of nature bounty ..and friendly people. ..sign me up😏❤

That scenery was nearly too beutiful, I`d get diabetis is the eyes, it is so sweet. Thanks for sharing

Beautiful country side again, David for the narrow bits, breath in, breath out, relax. Enjoy. Better? Cheers

Love the picturesque canal footage! Thank you for the vlog.

Gud, as ever. Black cat was very much appreciated

Love your vlog. Thanks for sharing your terrific lifestyle.

All right, from way across the Pond where there is Red Rose Tea (only in Canader you say? Pity)* I must, after watching every single one of your ninety three blogs, some of them more than once, I must tell you, simply must and should have done so at Vlog Not A Vlog #2, that I am utterly addicted to your narrow boat Iliad. It's all because of a FB post-share made by our ward councillor (at Chris Holt) posted/shared of Vlog number, oh, I don't recall, which I watched but I did and then clicked back to #1. I find your blogs always informative, most well told, beautiful shot and edited and sometimes--I mean this in the most positively affectionate way--gloriously soporific. Mind, I do stay awake but they are just so relaxing. Alas, I shall have to be content with each day there is a new "Hello, and welcome to the Vlog" for me to vicariously cruise the cut. I imagine myself pootling about the canals, then popping off on my folding bike for sketch in village or field, walking the dogs along the tow path (I assume tow and in tow the boat not toe as in foot path as we might call it here) and cuddling with my cabin mate of 33 years of a chilly night. Then I realize, not likely; grown kids, eventual grands coming along, quarter of a world away... Oh, side note: while I shan't be changing my life to live on a narrowboat your story has quite actually changed one aspect of my life. I've quit coffee and drink tea. All those mentions of tea. I couldn't take it. One day I just fancied tea like my of-UK-stock gran used to make, Red Rose, all milky. Well, that was that. Not even intending to quit coffee, I have. So, there it is. At least I've said thanks and, taken a rather lot of space doing so. *Only in Canader eh? Pity - not for a long time now as it is also available in America though owned by another company and undoubtedly not a proper brew 　 but I did do love those quirky 1970s/80s commercials.

I am addicted to your vlog , always waiting in anticipation of the next , so much better than the crap on the Telly , thank you for posting.

Lovely, much slower pace than my life . Quite envious !

Thanks for taking us along!

FANTASTIC!!! lovely balance, thanks Cheers and as always God bless

Beautiful!! My paternal family was from that area. My Grandad worked the coal mines under the Cannock Chase. My Dad born in Rugeley would pedal bike to Cannock for his studies. I would visit my Gran in Hednesford in her later years. Had a few pub lunches and a pint or two at the Ash Tree Pub on the canal (not sure if it is still there). Thanks for relighting my memories from my younger years. Currently working in Afghanistan and hope to revisit again some day and possibly holiday on the canals. I enjoy 'traveling' along with you. My best kind Sir.

Shugadelic, baby! Yeah! I think you are a Austin Powers fan. Lovely way to start my weekend, watching the vlog while I sip on my morning cuppa. Darjeeling by the way. Thank you for the journey.

Stunning scenery, thanks for sharing. Nice haircut.

That huge factory on the left at Armitage (which means Hermitage) is the Armitage-Shanks lavatory porcelain factory. Even here in Germany we have Armitage-Shanks porcelain everywhere. That long single channel section should be guarded by booms in the down position with traffic lights. These would normally be on green, and when a boater at either end operated an entry button on a stanchion on the bank, the light at the far end would go red and the boom at the near end would rise, letting the boater into the netherworld. Another bank stanchion at the other end would raise the boom. Traffic would be controlled by a system similar to that for calling lifts.

Very enjoyable as ever 👍

As usual, very pleasant and your cinematography skills seem to be improving capturing the sunlight reflect effect and all those other nice shots. When I see what has been happening in the UK the past fortnight which frustrates me but I also see your tranquil moments you share with us which calms me. Thanks.

Shugborough is well worth a visit. Very interesting house and servant quarters. There is an impressive stone pedestrian bridge with lots of arches across the river to get to the house from the canal. The nice bridge you mentioned was built for the owner to drive his horse and carriage over the canal when going to church in the village.

Love your vlogs. So great to "travel" around the canals with you. Looking forward to the next episode:-)

Hi, afraid it's me again. Just viewed the latest vlog. It brings many memories as my my wife and I holidayed a couple of weeks ago on the Trent and Mersey canal in a narrowboat from Mercia marina (Willington) upto Stone and back following the same route. We were very luck as we saw quite a few swans with their cygnets, ducks with their chicks and moorhens with their whatever. The scenery is just beautiful along this stretch of the canal. We turned around at Stone using the winding hole just before the first lock up into town, it was very busy here with a very long line of boats moored up. If you have not got there yet beware there is a very deep lock somewhere near the Caldon canal, you will need a long center line if I remember correctly. Good luck with the rest of your cruise and we are already looking forward to the installment. Cheers.

So, in the first video of yours I ever watched, you had just gotten a haircut... I've since watched your videos about living on a canal boat and this popped up as a recommendation... And you're talking about a haircut again! Oh I do enjoy these videos :D Now to actually watch and enjoy the rest of it!

I'm from Denmark and I've seen all of you Vlog.... Love to keep track of your life on the canal

Thank you for great video.You are for sure travel in some very nice nature along the canal.

I don't even live in the same part of the world and I have an overwhelming urge to get a small boat with a fishing net and clean up those littered areas of the canals. While living aboard a boat in Florida, the tide would often bring trash to the shore with it. I always felt disgusted with my fellow human beings for allowing their trash to find its way into the water. I wanted to apologize to the fish. On the other hand, this particular video did have some breathtakingly beautiful scenery to make up for the random bits of plastic offal. Fantastic job, as always. Thank you for sharing.

Very nice wood lands surrounding the canal. The narrowness of some of the bridges is astounding...thus the "narrow boat" I suppose. Nice video thanks!

Ah at last a bit of the canal I know as I have walked along the tow path. Great vlog and lovely scenery!

fabulous as always. I meant the haircut too of course! lovely to see some familiar scenery, having lived in Stafford 🏞 Shugborough is well worth a visit in case anyone wants to know!🏛

Thank you for another brilliant vlog David. What a beautiful canal! I love the scenery so never feel you have to keep it short. Hope you're tucked away in a part of the canal that's not too windy.

My husband won’t entertain living permanently on a boat, so I’m living with you, via your channel. Hope you’re ok with having me as a virtual stowaway.

I love your scenery shots...

Another great vlog. A very great shot @1:59 so tranquil. Great job and can't wait for the next video

Another great vlog in the life of your daily trips along the canal system David :-)

What a splendid video, and it was lovely to see Great Haywood, which was the boatyard (Anglo Welsh Boats in those days) where we started from on my very first canal holiday, back in the 1970s. We went down the Staffs & Worcs rather than the Trent & Mersey, though, and also spent a while on the Shropshire Union. Thank you for bringing back happy memories, although, truthfully, all your videos do that, simply by showing our canals!

I think they did an Inspector Morse episode about The Bloody Steps.

its pretty cool to see great haywood through a boat, i live in great haywood and regularly visit the canal

As always, lovely sceneries.

Awesome video David . that was some beautiful countryside. thank you for sharing

That narrow bit made me so anxious!

Thank you for the vlog, i hope you are not being thrown around too much by the wind, it has been very windy here" Tuesday", keep the vlogs coming i do enjoy them.

Love the vlogs! I eagerly watch for each new one. I especially like the views of the canal banks and the countryside. My sister and I spent almost three weeks in your country in 1999 and loved every minute of it. Keep the vlogs coming! Thanks. Transplanted Michigander now living in Indiana. (No, I am not Deni Porter - that's my daughter. Couldn't figure out how to change my comment to my own name. )

I enjoy waking up to one of your older vlogs each day. Thank you for your videos

Another good one David, thanks very much. Mikron boat is from my neck of the woods at Marsden. Stanedge tunnel on the Huddersfield narrow.

Nice haircut, when are they going to finish it. but love the vlogs.

David, what a fun trip. Back it the day, a ship going through the locks at Soo locks in Michigan, could catch the fender timbers on fire from the friction of the ship on the fender timbers in the locks.

Good to see the old spots...Thank you Comdr.🌞

Wonderful video all that gorgeous countryside

great blog David its great to see the canal form your boat.

Time = 10:20; "Have a sip of your tea while we meander gently...." Strange as strange is I DO have a cup of tea! LOL

Oh David!!! I am loving your vlogs. Thank you so much for sharing them. I am quite interested in visiting and spending a holiday doing a canal trip... maybe for my 50th in 5 years! Best start saving hey? Happy travels. Cheers from Samm in Oz

Yes, I immediately was wondering about your haircut as soon as the hat appeared. Got mine cut that short yesterday. Although, I had to drive a car to get mine cut.

Thumbs up! We enjoyed the scenery in this VLog very much. Thanks for sharing the cruising life. Nice haircut, by the way. Cheers from Vermont, US, Maggie & Dave

Thanks for ya narrative’s ,very informative making your vlogs very interesting. I feel as though I am on the boat .

Brilliant Video, Thanks Cruising..... :)