So we are heading... we're facing away from Brentford, but we're going to turn around, and go back to Brentford,
even though we only left Brentford two days ago.
But we're gonna put back down to the basin because we're meeting my parents.
They're coming to spend the day cruising with us, and we thought we'd also go back down there to use the facilities again.
We're like a couple hundred feet away from the basin. So we've just got to basically reverse up.
I don't think I can turn, so I'll be reversing into the basin
It's wide enough isn't it?
Mmm, it's wide, but it's not deep. So I think I'll just have to reverse.
But um, yeah, so we're just going to go back to the basin and get into a
facilities position there, get some stuff cleaned up and wait for your parents arrive, then we're cruising that away. Back the way we came.
That away, It's a little bit complicated. It's around that way. Back the way we came two days ago.
Yeah, up a flight of six locks. There is like two, then there is six, and there's.... anyway, we'll be going up to the
junction with the Paddington Arm. And this time we're gonna turn down the Paddington Arm.
Yes, after stopping at the Tesco's and filling up with huge amounts of perogies.
Alright let's go. I'm going to walk. You're going to walk.
Good day, nice day. Really nice day. Long day. Jo's parents visited.
So, umm, yeah. Reversed onto the
service point mooring, you had gone for a walk and disappeared completely. Well, I tried to walk down there
But is there a black building overhanging the basin. So they've closed the towpath off because it's dangerous.
So then I walked, like a really long way around, and then I realised I was
practically by the station, so I thought I'd go and meet my parents. You intended to
come with the boat on the tow path.
Like you didn't remember until, I'd pushed off, and was already heading backwards, and called to you,
and was like, you know, you can't go in the towpath. Yeah, but I thought there might be a way around, but there wasn't.
So, yeah, I had a nice little shower there, got scolded because there's no temperature control on the shower,
And then we all jumped back on the boat and headed up
Yeah, and.. Lots of locks, we met a boat on the way up on the first lock so we shared with that boat.
Yeah, that is by some miracle.
On that stretch, there's hardly any boats, Yeah. All day, but we happened again...
Like we met one coming down and then we met another one going up. It was really lucky. Yeah, and
And basically we we had is help the entire time, and honestly, he did a lot of, he did a lot of work
He's got a small, single cylinder engine on his boat, but boy could it haul.
Like it really made, you know made this kind of funny putt-putt. Nice noise. He said it was a
Swedish fishing boat engine. And he said it was like, from the sixties.
Yeah, made a nice noise, did definitely, like, put out a bunch of unburned...
You could smell...
pure diesel, you know. So it was a little bit nasty, but
but the thing could really haul. because whatever prop he has on there...
it's just he'd start out of the...
Out of the gate, and i'd be like, I am not even moving. Just see his dust. Yeah.
Like, I think people are bored of us saying it, but its just so hot.
Yeah, it was crazy hot again, it's hot inside the locks, I think it's just the temperature but there's so much green algae. Is it Algae? Yeah,
Is it Algae, or is it weed?
Oh those things that look like,
lentils? On the surface? It's like a green carpet. I don't think that's algae.
No, I think it's weed. Your dad said it's some sort of weed. But I'm like,
It really looks like lentils. And then we had the long haul back to the junction,
And we turned, and then we stopped for lunch. Even there was about half three by then, and
Michael made me run back to Tesco's, which was closing at 4:00, to get some pierogis.
Good pierogis, these are the... Mushroom and sauerkraut. Mushroom and Sauerkraut pierogis. I'm sorry that
I didn't have more time in that Tesco's because I swear there was an iaisle for,
like a giant bags of rice. Oh, yeah, the world foods aisle, aisles, there was like five of the. The world's foods aisle were amasing
They had a world's food fridge. There was Japanese candies. There was Vietnamese, you know soups in bowls and some, I mean they were all beef based.
If you get to that moorning at Bulls Bridge. Go to the World Foods aisle.
Yeah, if you like ,if you liked any kind of world, like sort of multicultural food source, that Tesco's is really good.
So then yeah, we headed up the Paddington arm, yeah
So yeah,
we're now on the Paddington Arm. Which is exciting.
No more locks now until... No more locks for quite a long... like 20 miles or something. Till Camden basically.
Yeah, there was a lady and a gentleman who took off in their boat, just in front of us.
And so we were sort of following them for a bit, and then they were following a wide beam who was moving very slow.
So then they passed the wide beam. I think its the first time
I've seen anyone overtake, let alone overtake a wide beam, and then we got to overtake the wide beam.
I'm still surprised at how rural it feels like. And there were houses and stuff. Yeah. But,
you are in this protected green space. Even though you're surrounded by like large construction places and stuff,
I mean it was funny. We came around a corner and and your dad pointed out Wembley Stadium
It's like you can see Wembley Stadium but you've got this corridor of green. I walked up to the next bridge which is like
50 feet past the pub we're sitting at right now and
looked around the corner, just to see if there was other moorings, and there is just a massive
gravel pit on one side, and a massive gravel pit on the other side and they're building something like
Oh, here is our food. Many many blocks in diameter.
so
Perfect, thank you
Cheese and chips and our onion rings Im not sure about the cheesy chips
Honestly, if you knew what the price was you really wouldn't be sure.
Don't tell me
Yes, so we got here, well, the reason we came here is to drop my parents off
so they could go and get the train back.
And we ended up staying at the mooring we dropped them off at.
It's not ideal,
We're on a bit of a curve, but there was a pub here, with all these tables in the shade, like our boat... literally
Like that is our boat.
we were just like... shall we go and get a cold drink.
Yeah, cuz it's so hot, and here's the thing I've told people I'm a tea-totaler I'm not really a tea-totaler.
I'm more of a, I very rarely drink alcohol
But it turns out that these things, these Rekorderlig and other ciders are fine.
Especially the ones that are funny colours, this one it turns out isn't a funny colour.
and it is mainly pear juice.
but I'm kind of liking the...
I still wish they weren't on alcoholic, but I'm kind of liking the large bottle of something extremely cold
every time I pull over. It's just so warm.
I really don't rate these chips. They are so disappointing.
Oh well, What are you going to do. I'm going to eat them.
I'm going to add serious quantities of condiment.
Not allowed to add ketchup.
Got a salt
I got more salt. Do you want some salt. Uh-uh. One of these might be sugar. That would be a problem. That is probably salt right.
Yeah, so, we're on the outskirts of London, we've got two pages of the
Nickelson's guide left before we're in Little Venice. So is that the
next trip, are we just gonna push through? I don't know about push through but like..
I'd like to go and spend the night in Paddington Basin. So would I. People were saying yesterday.
that's if you're lucky, you'll get a mooring Paddington
potentially if you arrive their earlier.
Right, cuz I like the idea of, if it was possible, to get down there and spend the night in Paddington Basin
Apparently it's got a reputation for being windy and hard to turn in and people don't like going in there,
So maybe there's a little bit of a of a chance. I don't... we haven't been able to book a place in
Venice
proper, Little Venice. So yeah, so that's pretty much our entry into London. I think we might stay here tomorrow
Oh, yeah. Or at least if someone moves, we'll move back onto one of those or something
Yeah, but I like the idea of having a day of rest. We've been moving just too continuously.
There is about ten vlogs that I need to edit.
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El-lo
The fruit of passion.
Alright, are we ready for this nonsense?
So we went backwards this morning into...
someplace
Brentford. Yeah
What Michaels trying to say is he did a superb professional reverse. I did do a superb professional reverse.
Somebody on the boat in front of me was like, you're cheating, You're using bow thrusters. I'm like, where's your horse?
Again. It gets old. It does.
Maybe we should just drop the hint. Its like [whispers] Or dog is famous.
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Run around in you know
furry outfits... He's going in. He's going in, he's trying to get in.
I'm pretty sure that is some sort of a wasp not a bee.
One way or another...
fertilise that...
wonderful cider... Get off my chips though.
Not in the way that you...
In the way that you actually fertilise plants...
You know pollinate, that's what I was going for, should not have sex with a cider.
He seems to be eating it. I think its time to end.Time to end
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