#177 

It has been a privilege to have been allowed to witness the natural beauty along the British Waterways. Thank you so much Vanessa, you will never know how much pleasure I have had from watching your vlogs. ❤

My heart is full revisiting all the beautiful moments you have so generously offered us in 2023. You are a bringer of joy and I am so grateful to you. With warm wishes for you, Mr M and Zephyr on your travels in 2024. Big hug, Wendy xxxx

The single best narrowboating RU-vid video I’ve been lucky enough to watch - chapeau and happy boating for 2024.

Thank you for your beautiful vlogs and Happy New Year to you and your family. One of my favourite times spent over 2023 has been on a Friday watching, the wildlife, an artist, a poet, a fellow boater explaining all the wonderful things around us. Thank you xx❤

Just beautiful, that was very moving in places, your love for wildlife and all animals shines through. Thank you Vanessa and Zeph 💖

Many thanks for all your wonderful vlogs of 2023, , we send you and yours all of Gods blessings for 2024 🙏✝️🙏🇨🇦

You are such an amazing storyteller. Love your channel.

That was a wonderful video Vanessa. Thankyou.

You have so many followers that I don´t expect You to have the time to read all comments. But still I hope that my comment will for som reason come through and give me the opportunity to tell You that You actually have made some difference. At least to me. I´ve only followed You fore a couple of weeks but find Your vlog irresistable! Im an old traveller since my youth. Went on Interrail, than started to take my motorbike around Europe. In my late twenties i made a few backpacking travels around the world. Last year I retired from work and now I´m sitting in my little house thinking about what would be the best adventure I can take on in the coming years. I have many ideas! Anyway I just thougt I´d "drop You a line". I share Your intrest fore nature and animals though i dont have Your knowledge about birds. The English names of birds are very different to the Swedish names! I very much enjoy the slow pace in Narrowboating. Gives You the time to be there in the moment. The rest of the world is spinning in furious speed, isnt´it? I´ve also been keen on photographing and I can see that You really have both the equipment and the skills to make excellent photographing. Although I´ve been travelling quite a lot Great Britain is still kind of a white spot for me. That I hope will change in the next years. Hopefully I can take my Triumph Bonneville for a holiday around Your country. Now that I have all the time in the world. Maybe we could arrange a meeting somewere, sometime. Looking foreward to what Your vlog will bring us followers 2024. Regards from Sven Carlsson Kalmar Sweden

what a wonderful year remembered!! :)

So happy to see you all back, found your channel over the Christmas break in the Aussie heat I must admit I binge watched most of your earlier episode's. I feel so relaxed and calm watching the beauty of the canals and the UK wildlife. Your art and poetry is beautifully inspiring. 😊

Thanks Vanessa for this beautiful recollection of all the wonderful sights and experiences that you've shared with us throughout 2023, we are honoured. Take care and all the very best. Stevie X

Was this the perfect review of 2023 video? Absolutely, thank you Vanessa and your bird / wildlife video shots are just perfect.

Lovely vlog as always. Looking forward to another wonderful year of your travels xxx

What a wonderful vlog, looking forward to seeing you all again soon. Happy new year to you all.

Jack Hargreaves is someone who wandered the Countryside and lanes by foot towing a pony-drawn cart whilst talking to the camera about the history of the area and specific items of interest. He put together a very relaxed and informative programme. The point to me starting about Jack is because I could see you taking his place in every way, but the main point of reference would or could be the canals and spin-offs ie

Another amazing video, and a very happy new year to you Vanessa Zephyr and family. May your travels in 24 be filled with wonder, for you and all who you welcome aboard.💐🍪☕📔

Thank you for allowing me to come along on Alice Grace. It's been a pleasure. Wishing you all the best for 2024. Nga mihi nui (best wishes using Te Reo which is the language of Maori in New Zealand. Nga is pronounced Na) Take care =-)

Thank you Vanessa for the the wonderful and informative vlogs. They have been an absolute joy to watch. All the very best to you and crew for 2024...😊

What a glorious celebration of 2023, that was so lovely to share. When I was a child it was common to hear cuckoos, can't remember the last time I heard one now. I guessed the glow worms would be your favourite wildlife memory, it was absolutely magical wasn't it. I'll be making deodorant tomorrow which always reminds me of my acupuncturist who also makes it & now I'll think of you too. Happy New Year to you, Zeph & Mr M. 🎉🥂🐾🌱

Thanks for all your stories and taking us through last year. I hope this is a great New Year in 2024 for you all.

Thank you so much for your blogs and, particularly, for this 2023 resume.

Hello again and what a marvelous first vlog to start 2024! I enjoyed reminiscing with you on your 2023 travels! I hope you and yours completely enjoyed your holidays together, and you are all looking forward to anotther wonderful year on this beautiful planet of ours! Best wishes, as always!

Another beautiful snippet into your life afloat Vanessa, being an animal lover myself the image of Steph with her paw on you really touched me… the bond between the two of you is truly heartwarming… Happy New Year to you, Steph and your family… I look forward to the upcoming challenges and wonders you will share in 2024… 😊

Many thanks for all the great vlogs from the last year. Hope this year is as gentle and full of wildlife.

Lovely! And lovely to revisit all those places - realising I had been there with you as all those original vlogs rolled out!!!! So sad about Edith, am not sure anyone these days collects chestnut blossoms but will think of her when I see them next!

Vanessa. What a wonderful recap of your narrowboat year - and our happy viewing times too! I spent the whole vlog saying "I remember this" and "oooohhh, I loved that!". I watched with my 10 year old nephew - who is generally incredibly hard to keep interested in anything - but he was gripped to all the information and experiences you shared. It was even nicer for you to mix it in with the London canal experiences - thank you for that! I grew up as a young child and teen, spending my holidays at my grandma's in Little Venice - she lived in those big white flats just behind you - on Warwick crescent - I wonder now if that's where my love for the canals began - without me knowing. Happy new year to you Vanessa, I'm so looking forward to all the viewing again this year. xxxxxxx

That was a grand recap of 2023, my nickname at work was Hobbit lovely gesture with your sun flower seeds, here's to an exciting and safe journey through 2024. Happy New Year from Gary n Irene.

nice to see you back in 2024 for more cruising on your narrowboat

You're like a sprite of nature my dear. Something quiet unique. Cheers.

I’m 33 and I think I’ve fallen in love with you and your lifestyle, ❤what an amazing clean heart x

I finally found it. I have been so looking forward to your 2023 looking back. I was so surprised at the memories I remembered. Again, as always, this was lovely and brilliant at the same time. I hope you will be blessed to do one for 2024, and I will be blessed to watch it. You bring a smile to my wife and a calmness to our day.

Thank you Vanessa. That's got to be one of the best canal boat videos we've seen (and we've seen quite a few). Your camera work, your drawings and the photos of different birds and animals, absolutely special. Your dog, Zephyr is quite a star. All this coupled with a silky smooth commentary.

In the field of narrowboating, your videos and presentations are a quantum leap ahead of the field. Your presentational style, highly informative supplementary material, superb wildlife illustrations make watching your channel a must

The most inspiring memory of 2023 for me was discovering your channel Vanessa. You had a wonderful year of Narrow Boat adventures and took all of your friends along for the ride. We all Love you and what you are doing. 2024 is waiting to see what kind of adventures you create. Hope you had a nice Christmas and New Year.

You give us such big smiles thank you

Thank you for your videos this year, as with every year so far. Here’s to another great one 🎉

So lovely to watch, a total treat. Thank you x

Thank you Vanessa for such a well thought out and beautifully presented review of your 2023 narrowboat adventures. I was so delighted to have found your channel and your unique take on narrow boating. Exceptional. 2023 was the worst year of my life due to my wife’s unexpected cancer diagnosis. Watching your videos has helped me get through the dark days. As we enter 2024 we are hopeful of a positive outcome and being able to return to semblance of normality. All the best to you, Mr M and Zephyr for a safe and adventurous 2024. 🙂

Many thanks. You sooth my heart and soul. xo

Vanessa & Zephyr this vlog was AWESOME a montage of the year I joined you on Alice Grace my heartwarming vlog THANK YOU for a wonderful 2023 waterway journey of Nature through your filming & art work ❤🐾🐾🫂

Thank you Vanessa for this wonderful experience. II can’t express my surprise and delight when you discovered that you were exploring the woods of Middle Earth where Tolkien…..Tolkien !! played as a child. What unseen Hand, brought you to that place, arranged the weather and a place to rest , “just-so”, Was it the enchantment of Middle Earth? . and that was just one of the events of 2023, you captured and shared with us. i would like to have heard more about the Night of Tidal Bore..I wonder how long it lasted, and I can only imagine how it must have felt,on the boat as the rushing current lifted and tossed the Alice Grace. Thank God you were protected from harm. , I hope all the boats came through safely.❤

Awwww grand revisiting the year Lovely to get that chance to see the nature once again thank you tc now the oldies 🤗🤗

Vanessa, I love nature & dogs as much as you do, while your videos transport me to a different place…thank you 🌸🫶

What an amazing year,only on the canals

Your video is just fantastic! The views, fish, plants,animals and all your and all your adventures are so beautifully narrated and illustrated . Thank you from the bottom of my heart and the world!

Happy new year ! to both of you ! great video ! 🤓

Just beautiful! ❤

Vanessa, how fitting to see back over 2023, Hope 2024 is just a exciting and memorable. 💚

Fantastic outro Poem Vanessa. Happy New Year you lot

I bought your journal from 2022 and love it. I read it, then read it again while watching each vlog entry as you describe it, now I’m reading it again at beginning of 2024. Your description of Edith Holden inspired me to purchase her book The Country Journal of an Edwardian Lady, which was equally enjoyable. So wonderful of you to show me her home. 😊

Loved looking back on all those amazing memories with you thank you again for letting us be part of it

Happy New Year Vanessa, Zephyr and Mr Mindful. I loved this video, especially the first bit as you were at Shirley, my name. You’ve covered some miles in 2923 and I’ve followed every one of your journeys. I hope you’re staying safe and warm in this very wet, stormy weather. Take care all of you. xxxxx

I discovered your channel about 6 months ago. I have never been to The U k, or traveled on a narrow boat… but your videos take me there! Your gentle manner and gorgeous videos are so pleasant, and soothing to the soul! Thank You!🤗🦋

Thanks, very well done, amazing. ✌🏻👊🏼

That was a beautiful vlog recapturing 2023. Looking forward to seeing more of your travels in 2024.

Your such a talented narrator and artist , well documented, thank you

Vanessa,👸🌹 Happy New Years from the USA, Thanks for your adventures on the Narrowboat Alice Grace 🚢exploring the canals of the UK in 2023. Glad the canals are still used and not filled in they are an important part of our history. Love your channel and the Birds 🐦🐦and wildlife 🐌🐌of the UK. Give Zeph 🐶a pet for me. Cheers 🍪🍪☕☕🤵

A very HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all for 2024. May your voyages always be safe and exciting. xx

What an amazing video !❤

Thank you for such an amazing reveal of all the most interesting views of what nature has to offer! Did my heart good!

Amazing look back loved your story happy 2024 xx

Looking forward to your 2024 journeys & journal!!! 💚💙🤎🧡

So many wonderful memories form 2023. Thank you for sharing your canal experiences. Stay safe and happy cruising in 2024. Hopefully our paths will cross again on the waterways.❤

Moving around on small tranquil waterways. Abundant nature. Old architecture. Not like that here in Cornwall Ontario. Canada. We almost have to much nature running over all the time. Before Christmas running around different villages i ran over a skunk one night and the next night the same for a bunny and next night a big deer slowly crossing the road. I missed her by not much. Houses lit up like crazy and villages also with tons of lights. Like a wonderland of lights this year more than ever. Christmas displays. Amazing decorations. I probably did close to 1000 miles just checking out the Christmas lights along with a lot of other people in cars doing the or walking. We still have a great canal called The Rideau Canale. Lots of tourists on it. Peaceful but not tranquil. Boat traffic can get quite busy. Waiting lines at the locks. Cornwall is a small city of 50,000 people. I love this city. I was born in Montreal and that's way to busy for me. Millions of people. I really admire your choice of life. Just living.

I so enjoyed this video, thank you.

Vanessa It’s so cool that your first vlog of 24 started at the place where The Flower of Gloucester ended up at the end of that TV show. Thanks for reminding us of all the best places you visited last year. My favorites were the little shop where Beatrix Potter did her work. Also the Tolkien walk. Hopping we all have a great New Year Steve

Happy New Year 💖💖💖 Thanks for a year of your positivity, you have helped my recovery 😚😚

Thank you so much for sharing your vlogs with us......absolutely love watching you......happy new year xxxx

Wonderful video, I’m really looking forward to seeing your adventures in 2024.

Such a beautiful journey! Was that guy in the rubber raft trying to show off? I thought he was almost going to throw it over when he went tall end up. 😆😆 I LOVE the train. It is my favorite way of long distance travel here in the US. Oh, WOW "Blinds are drawn during blackout" Historic!! Once again, thank you for a lovely trip!!

You have been a very lucky lady to have captured so much wildlife on camera on your wonderful tour. I say luck, but many people create their own luck and you have proved this with your vlogs. I hope you can explore many more waterways this year and bring us all so much joy. If you ever come up the Thames or Wey Nav, let me know. I would love to meet up and show you some bits of our world.

So wonderful looking back over the memorable moments of 2023. Loved seeing some of the London canals and it was a very touching moment as you paid tribute to a very special lady opposite Kew. Thanks so much for all the vlogs, you brighten my week every time. Happy new year to you and the family xx

That was a good year. Hope the next is just as good for you.

A Happy new year Vanessa and what a excellent vlog to start 2024 off with 😊, so many memories/high lights of last year how did u dwindle it down with so many to choose from? Let's hope this year brings u the same pleasure and excitement as last year. 😂👍🐕🦅🦆

Wow and thanks again. Happy New Year. Have a great everyday.

Thank you. I will be in London in August for two weeks.

Wow what can we say Wonderful Wonderful stories Happy New Year Vanessa and Family Look forward to 2024 my friend xxx

What an escapism your travels bring, presious times

Always bubbly and full of interest ❤wonderful person

Hi. Only just found you . Great video Thanks. I would like to suggest that you get your book published, but as you have designed it , ie. Don’t let them alter anything. Wish You Well & Happy New Year.

Thank you. Your sensitive touch tells it all. I lived near to Chimney Bridge as a teenager & walked across it almost daily. There were regular working boats on that canal (the Tame Valley) carrying mainly coal from the nearby mines. In the record severe winter of 1963, I was just 17. I saw boats frozen in for weeks, that alone virtually killed the trade & the 2 local pits closed shortly afterwards. I now live near to Great Haywood so familiar with your recent explorations. The stretch of the Trent & Mersey between Great Haywood Junction & Hoo Mill Lock was known to the boatmen as "Kingfisher Cut" so watch out for the now rare flashes of turquoise & red whilst you're nearby.

Thanks so much, Vanessa. Beautiful vlog. Happy New Year!

Thanking you for a great down memory lane vlog and really professional presentation as always. Best wishes for 2024 to you and your family. Look forward to new episodes along whichever canal takes you.

I’m always sad when you finish , I look forward to your next adventure, I enjoy these videos so much

A wonderful year in review, you seem like a thoroughly modern woman living in a modern world, and yet possessing the soul of a renaissance-era Lady, and that unique combination makes for your fascinating story telling abilities. Great video thank you.

Good evening Vanessa, I wish you and your loved ones a very happy new year.

That was wonderful Vanessa. Thanks so much. Wishing you and your family (including Zephyr of course) a very happy 2024.

wishing you a successful cruise in 2024, we cruised for 9 years from 2003 and loved the Gloucester Sharpness so much we went back 3 times. The boats at Purton are so eerie and beautiful, brought back some fantastic memories. Thanks for your beautiful vlogs.

That was beautiful! The way you note the special wildlife and the waterway is very soothing and uplifting.You will be bringing a lot of joy to my 2024 as I get to watch your past and future travels.Best of health and safe boating to you and your family.Love this

Fav’s: The Chimney Bridge & Cuckoo’s & fish window & glow worms … thank u for recap…calming to my soul 🇨🇦 ❤

Lovely, as always. Happy new year to you and Mr. M.

Thankyou for the vlogs. My highlight of the year was meeting Zeph in Worcester! Happy New year to you and family.

Your delight is my delight x

Utterly exceptional video x

Happy New Year and that was a lovely gesture to conclude the vlog.

Hello Vanessa - A Very Happy New Year to you and Michael. That was a beautiful video, very moving and jam packed with so many memories of 2023 journeying with Alice Grace. I can remember all the different sequences you showed. I can't thank you enough for bringing so much enjoyment into my life during 2023. I'm positive that 2024 is going to be just as good travelling the waterways with you. The poem you read at the end of this video was, in my opinion, the best you have ever written.

Now that beautifully crafted vlog really moved me🤗Happy New Year🎉

Loverly video thanks x

Always good, this time it was excellent! Best review of 2023.