A Very Different View NARROWBOAT ADVENTURES In The City Ep 67

Where is it safe to moor? A lock rescue, a search for secure moorings, anti-vandal locks, graffiti, street art, a submerged wheelie bin and a bike, low water, amazing canal side cake and a cruise through cafe…. these were some of the highs and lows of our narrowboat cruise through Leicester. Join us for one day of our epic narrowboat journey from the Peak Forest Canal to the Crick Boat Show on Narrowboat One Day More, with Paul and Anthony from YouTube channel ​⁠@NarrowboatLifeUnlocked on Narrowboat Morning Star.

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[Music] what you making I’m making uh black pudding bacon post eggs and sour no toast proper coronation breakfast yes [Music] [Music] for [Music] if you’ve watched any of our latest episodes you’ll see that we’ve been traveling with Paul and Anthony from YouTube channel now about life unlocked we’re on a 160 m Journey with 107 locks down to the quick boat show at the end of May this episode we’ll be cruising through Leicester on the Grand Union Canal we’ll be starting at burel to the north of the city through Leicester city center and out to the south at Kilby Bridge as have become the norm on this journey Pete did all the planning and the rest of us just nodded our approval we’re in book three of the Nicholson’s guides they’re the mapbooks we use to navigate while we’re cruising and this section is Page 105 back to 101 our plans changed a little as our son Alex came to visit us on the boat he got to meet Paul and Anthony in real life after seeing them on FaceTime so many times and while Pete and Paul and Anthony Cruis from Barrow down to burstall Alex and I went shopping to Kit him out for his upcoming Cruise contract he’s an Entertainer on the spirit of adventure with Saga cruises and his boat’s just a little bit bigger than ours and this floating theater was his new home winds in the East [Music] coming begin I took Alex to see crit Warf Marina that was going to be our new home for a few weeks and then I headed back up to Leicester we had a beautiful moing right next to waterme Country Park just to the north of Leicester city center and it was really easy to get the bus into the city we’d found this moring spot by accident really the last time that we came through Leicester there hadd been no spaces left at what we’d been told were the safe moins in the city so we’d had to carry on out of the city’s Center good morning com in theat [Music] the going too fast mate [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it’s the first of our locks today just come into B grave lock got 14 locks to do heading from bur through Leicester all the way down to kby [Music] bridge that’s a national Space Center over there [Music] [Music] [Music] it’s a mandarin duck there in the middle don’t see very many of those around so we’re starting to see graffiti on the lock Gates there’s a lot of rubbish around around here and in the water and um we know from when we crued through the city last year that that’s just how it is in Leicester and a lot of other sties really a lot of graffiti and rubbish [Music] [Music] hello [Music] everybody Something In The Water there oh it’s a bin it’s a wheelie bin in the water it’s a wheelie bin [Music] look at that some really really lovely street art mixed in with the uh graffiti this is actually part of a initiative by the Leicester City Center Council to it’s called bring the art and they invite Street artists to come and decorate um Le decorate walls in the city [Music] [Music] [Music] to get [Music] [Music] G [Music] so these people just leaving they’re on a higher boat they’ve been trying to get through this lot for the last 2 and a half hours there’s a huge leak that has uh stopped the lock from uh fill in and empty and properly so we finally got it open with some Brute Force four of us pushing on the lock gate you can see the big leak at the end of sir get stop around are we going to get cake don’t but we need cake but there was a sign for cake here somewhere oh there it is bit’s bake shop and Cafe at the [Music] middle I am now seeing this cake a they um work with the canal and River trust they do like painting along the waterways they work with Council City so work work all over the do like commissions with like FY and places like that in London yeah and there me what a fabulous place you got coffee and cake and art supplies coffee and cake art supplies exhibition space to do like film nights uh street food things upstairs again we’ve got like a printing that do like cups stickers and everything then on the fourth floor is my Bak cre right the way at the top fantastic so this is the paint space graffiti [Music] Calles and things [Music] [Music] some of these have been painted over since we came past last year yeah remember that was a huge chameleon or something chameleons on this wall here yeah oh yeah oh it’s a frog I think it’s a tree frog is it it’s a shame people graffi over the really nice stuff though yeah so from that lovely cake shop we got this m bar huge thing and a bwell blondie I think it’s called a bwell blondie and a CH latte and an Americano pit I’ve just cut them into more manageable bite size pieces cuz they were huge this is Fri M morens um when we came past last year there weren’t any spaces and now there’s quite a few spaces there Fri Mill moins are pontoon moins owned by the canal and River trust that you access with a CRT key so they’re somewhat secure these were the moin that were full the last time we passed through Leicester which ended up with us finding the beautiful moin at waterme Country [Music] Park how is it very good I think she said it was a layer of cookies brownies Rice Crispy cake marsbar melted all into it that’s our [Music] lunch that artwork it’s amazing isn’t it [Music] [Music] you can see Castle Gardens visitor morens on the right here there’re the other City Center morons that you need a canal and River trust key to access there had been one Spot Free here before when we passed through Leicester but we’d heard really mixed views about their safety which is why we carried on to fr’s meal but when we’ got there there were no spaces it’s a little more stressful when you’re cruising through cities that you don’t know and you don’t know the safe areas [Music] there’s Leicester city football concus there we just coming up to Freeman’s Meadow lock and look like Gate’s already open it’s going to come straight in [Music] it’s rather a big lock isn’t it [Music] get one there old lily pads out here [Music] [Music] I’ll get out in the bridge [Music] it’s a boat M on the lock Landing just a bit of a pain [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] Happ [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Paul and I just been trying to open this lock this paddle but it’s got an anti band thing on it that we haven’t noticed see that latch just there course going to get the key to put it in there to hopefully loosen it needing your key to operate the anti bandle mechanism oh look there it popped out that’s Magic [Music] [Music] yeah we’ve just been in and ordered some sausage BS from this Kings lck t- rooms for lunch and we’re just hanging out in the lock ladies are just going to come and Shout us when they’re ready we can pick going in and pick them up look they want sausages when you stop for sausage down and the brown sauce it’s just 10 times nicer than when you make it yourself always you shouldn’t have brown sauce it’s all wrong is it yeah what do you have just sausage no brown sauce own no brown sauce and you have butter on your sausage yeah butter on the bread in but on this oh I might need some sauce look at puppy and Hy I think they like ice cream what have you got there Anthony sausage sausage sco Peach for us oh is that for your throat yeah Different Finger for you you’re spoiled us that was definitely worth a stop wasn’t it yes very much so yes how many more hours cruising now eight locks I know that just counted be there soon that’s a pop of bubble bath there [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] the water’s so low here and we’re not sure why CU we’ve had a lot of heavy rain whether somebody’s left some paddles open on some locks at some point um just going to see how it is when we get there that boat just come out of the lock so hopefully the block be enough over the water level’s really low and uh he’s trying to get back out into the middle letting me off [Music] there’s this lovely Garden at wetstone Lane lock little kids bike isn’t it there’s so much more rubbish in the canals going through the cities and the danger is it gets around your propeller [Music] a boat comeing towards us so we left the lock gegs open for them to go straight in [Music] bye there all right [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you take care [Music] that was lucky there as a boat coming out of the lck we just leave it open [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] a little canalside Pub set up there oh it’s called the canal side in look s [Music] [Music] that was fun wasn’t it yes totally what we you trying to do just get around the corner just trying to get around the corner Against the Wind and uh shallow water with like a sandbank t tipping the boat over yeah [Music] and finally this is the last lock of the day kby lock and just after this we’ll be stopping for the night it’s been cold and tired last luck of the day done and we’re just going around the bend and hopefully there’ll be a spot for us two spots two [Music] [Music] spots yeah just on the right here St [Music] thank you so much to everybody that supports our Channel Through buy your coffee and YouTube super thanks we really appreciate you and hit the thumbs up and give us a like if you’ve enjoyed this video and if you’re not subscrib hit the Subscribe button it’s totally free you are my father I want you to know that every time you’re away I long for you so much I can find my way we got everything here at least to stay alive and the time that we sh makes it a worthwhile that this place on do you feel we got something and I saw you walking the line and the truth may come us a surprise that we you I feel life you’ll be the last one of think [Music] we got time on our side we’re in a state