Channels like this are the reason I haven’t watched mainstream television for 6 years. Discovered you’re channel today by accident but have thoroughly enjoyed watching them, trapped indoors on a stormy day watching you’re hikes. I’ve lived with depression for most of my life, walking and cycling are what keep me going. Abbie you’re a beautiful and inspiring person, you’re narrative style is amazing.. witty, funny, interesting and motivational, truly compelling.
At the risk of appearing contrarian, l hope she doesn't. MSM would ruin her, water her down and she would end-up being obliged to dance to her paymaster's music. Please stay just the way you are, Abbie...
@@christophernewman5027 I totally agree with you Christopher. By doing her own videos she has complete creative control and is free to remain true to herself WITHOUT being compromised by the diktats and agendas of mainstream broadcasting. It would really be a pity if the very things that make Abbie's channel so appealing - an obvious love for the outdoors and a very unforced presenting style - were to be lost.
Yeah, it’s that toss up between Abby getting the recognition for her fantastic videos and walks that rival anything I’ve ever seen by Julia Bradbury and co.. but doing so without her losing what brings us to her channel.
Abbie, you’re genuinely one of the most inspirational people I’ve ever encountered, albeit if it’s only through videos. Clearly you were born to do what you do and it’s amazing to see someone who has been lucky enough to find their passion. I suffer with health anxiety after a scare a few years ago and despite always being very outgoing in the past, I’ve lived like a hermit for a long time now. Watching you discover so many wonderful places is the next best thing until there comes a time where hopefully my mental health is in a better place again and I can go and see more of the world, or just more of the UK! Keep smiling (it could light up the darkest room) and never stop doing what you love.
What a journey! Thank you Abbie for taking us with you, for sharing the highs and the lows and for ultimately uplifting each and every one of us. Long may you keep doing what you do so well. The walks, long and short, chock full of local history, knowledge of the natural world and pearls of quiet inspirational wisdom. But most of all, look after yourself, stay safe and stay wild!
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
A very interesting walk Abbie, lots of scenery linking up many places I have been. I find your emotional honesty very refreshing, your emotion is part of the human condition and entirely natural. I think I would rely on OS maps on my phone much more, and cut a few corners here and there! An hour into your video👍 your soul appears to be more free than most and hence why your surroundings have such an effect on you. Keep up the film making, and making the most of the freedom your condition gives you by giving something back, which is therapy in itself 😎
MY God Abbie bl...dy brilliant - well done -- the best ever real time actual picturesque portrait of Devon that I have ever seen. If I could conjour up a hug I would......so personal and yet your stories you shared make us be with you all the way....I was so enveloped with your daily footsteps and your fabulous tales that I did not want it to end....loved your deep honesty and seeing the world through your unique vision, asks me to question how I see this wonderous Earth space the other side of the world to you. Saying thank you is not enough for your efforts but THANK YOU BEAUTIFUL ABBIE THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. I am now home sick for real!!!!!
Hello Abbie, I have seen many of your videos and you mention mental health many times. I fully understand the need for good mental health. My life took a very hard turn in December of 2019 when it was becoming harder and harder to open my mouth to eat. In June of 2020 when I was diagnosed with very aggressive stage 4 head neck cancer. The extreme amount of radiation and chemo treatments to fight the cancer did unrepairable damage to me and I will never eat solid food again . They thought they had got all the cancer but 3 months after the end of my treatment the cancer returned with a vengeance and the said they were going to try this new treatment which did its job and killed the cancer but I was left unable to work , lost 60 pounds and unable to gain it back to this day , all my teeth broke off at the gum line and I had almost no strength and unable to walk more than 100 feet without having to stop and catch my breath. I was always a very active person so you can guess my mental state was very bad and was steadily getting worse. I found myself wishing I had let the cancer have me. Then a few months ago I was watching RU-vid and discovered camping and hiking videos and it was like a bright light was turned on and I could see what I was doing to myself. When my disability got approved and I had some money I started buying inexpensive gear, mostly from Walmart and for the first time in a long time I felt good. I had forgot what that was like. People like you and a few others that I watch every day have given me back my life and I can't thank you enough for that . Ita amazing how much I have changed and how much better I am doing. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the therapy and helping me realize that I do have something to live for. Dwayne Stewart
Abbie you are amazing. I was supposed to do the Spanish Camino this year, but COVID 19 put that on hold. But I've been journeying with you duri g this time. Thank you for "taking me along". I'm so inspired. I also experience anxiety and panic attacks. I know... That's why I'm in awe of you. 😊
Are you still planning to do it later this year Yvette? I know Spain are a lot slower than us with their vaccinations but Im still hoping. Although i heard that a lot of the albergues have closed down permanently 😥
@@clairejohnson7809 hi Claire, sadly I wish I could say yes with surety. we're going to take it as it comes. Hoping and praying things get better. Just doing lots of our local hikes around Cape Town. Fortunately we live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. 🇿🇦😁
What a walk in many ways. Thank you Abbie for once again sharing so much with us. The landscape was so different in different areas feel I need to watch it again to take it all in. I love the facts you share about nature and geology and social history etc I love how you can tell us a hedgerow was planted in 1824 😀 I love this stuff and haven't found anyone else who does the same thing. It was a beautiful film to watch it fills your soul. Keep it up your doing amazing things. X
First time to your channel and wow! Brilliant filming and editing, no overpowering music and just inspiring, informative and a delight to listen to narration :)
Due to the pandemic I haven't been able to make it across the ocean to visit. I love Lynton, Exmoor, the beautiful Exmoor ponies, and lovely coastal pathway. Thank you for giving me a fix virtually. 💓💓💓 Get outside! 🥰
Your voice and presentation style reminds me of Professor Alice Roberts. You can hear the passion for walking in your voice. Whilst I enjoy exploring the bridleways of Lincolnshire, your series has given me an urge to once again widen my horizons and venture out onto other permitted walks around the UK.
I love your videos Abby. Very informative, and honest. Not sleeping is a big issue. It can make you feel quite wobbly! I rarely sleep well on treks. Look after yourself.
The Mewstone is a popular dive site, my diving buddy and Ifound a cannonball off there, was also use as a target for gunnery practice from HMS Cambridge
the church in morchard bishop,,im very well aquainted with the vicar,, lindsey stars , she lives at the rectory in church street,, ive stayed there for the weekend, as a guest as her daughter was my friend
An amazing journey Abbie, I was on the moors two weeks ago. Did the Doone valley and around lynmouth over a weekend, stayed at Cloud farm. Such amazing valleys with wonderful trees and wild life.
Hi Abbie, thank you for this wonderful video of your TMW adventure. I did the trail in July 2016 as my first long-distance walk as well as my first walk in England. Back then I'd just turned fifty, and I wondered how I would hold up to 117 miles over 10 days (with a few days off in the middle). It went well and it was an absolutely wonderful experience, and watching your video made me relive the whole trip. My big brother gave me a set of trekking poles for my birthsday a few months earlier (he knew of my vacation plans), and I remember thinking to myself: "Trekking poles are for very old people". Just before I left from Denmark to England, I decided to bring them anyway, and I wouldn't have made it into Dartmoor without them, as the first leg from Wembury beach to Ivybridge almost destroyed my knees! But the poles literally saved the rest of the trip. Since then I did the South Downs Way and the Ridgeway. Lovely. I love your hat, by the way ... I have a similar one myself :-) Keep walking and please continue to do your fine videos. I really enjoy them, and I so much want to get back to England for another long distance walk. Cheers.
Thank you Abbie. Wonderful video. Your commentary is inspiring, I loved the piece when you stopped and looked and listened.. I was reminded when you went through Holne that I did some of this walk in 1966!! when I walked from Lynmouth to Holne Park with Outward Bound Keep up the good work.
Another inspiring, educational video Abbie - Thank you so much! I love how you find joy in almost everything. You're a great person, your parents must be so proud of you....Oh, how the world needs more people like you.
Abbie, you are incredible, doing that walk and giving the commentary that you give, fantastic ! As other people have said you are an inspiration to many, including myself sharing your feelings makes us feel we are not alone. I have been watching your channel for the last week or so and have enjoyed every one of your videos and still have a lot to watch, which I will be doing. Thank you again for sharing them.
what total inspiration you are abbie.. and like other comments you have had , I think you should be presenting countryfile . well done from a new subscriber
You are so brave. I love your videos. Inspiring. You are so self aware - I feel your struggle. Thank you for showing some of your other humans a direction to follow. Literally and figuratively.
I gotta say, we watch your videos and find them unbelievably uplifting and we're always blown away by how positive you are in your videos. Sad to see your troubles but even more inspiring to see you get up and get back to it. You're awesome! Wishing you all the best in your travels and keep doing what you do!
Hey Abbie, thanks for letting us join the walk and congrats on completing it and making a good video. Thanks for sharing some profound thoughts. Cheers from Arkansas.
Good job Abbie as ever Very entertaining, Good idea making farmers responsible for the signage on there bit of land. Makes a lot of sense. We all hate inconsistant sign posts.
What a flipping brilliant video Abbie.. thank you for doing it. You are a natural. I decided to embark on TMW solo back in February and have been building up courage by telling people (who alternately tell me I’m mad brave or crazy) so that I can’t back out. In my research I’ve happened on you and what an inspiration you are. I’m not as brave as you to wild camp so I’ve booked into various “establishments” along the way instead. And having watched the whole video, whilst tracking your route on my map and the guide book, and seeing your emotion and joy as you literally ran down the last hill to Lynmouth (which brought tears to my eyes) has made me so excited and I’ve realized that I’m (maybe) not that mad after all. Can’t wait to get that glimpse of Lynmouth and the sea! Thank you thank you thank you x
Thank you, Abbie, for your delightful presentation of the Two Moors Way. I first watched it earlier this year before walking the trail from Ivybridge to Lynmouth over 6 days in June. I've just watched it again and it brought back many pleasant memories, particularly of the Devon countryside and Exmoor. My favourite memory is of the beech trees in Exmoor. Best wishes from Melbourne.
You’re such an inspiration! Although I’d rather you didn’t have to go through the lows, just know that you’re not alone, there’s plenty of us out here forcing ourselves out of our comfort zones and sometimes not quite sure why! ❤️
Hi Abbie! Just watched your Crib Goch video. Brilliant! You were so brave! I don’t know what demons you were facing, but you showed them what you’re made of. I could not do what you did. Keep wild! Ps loved your Portland video. My wife and I were married on the island. Lovely.
Abbie , love your videos, if you want some interesting reading for your walking. Interpreting the landscape by Michael Aston, he was on timeteam on channel 4. It could prove very helpful. Its very readable too. Anyway love your work.
I just completed the walk (my gps says 124 miles, including my accidental meanderings ! ) and I stumbled across this video by accident and ended up watching the whole thing. Well done you !
Hi Abbie - we're taking notes on your video to help us plan stops, it's really helpful, thank you! Can you tell us where you camped near Morchard Road, night four? We can't find anything! Keep doing what you're doing Abbie, we all appreciate t!
What memories this brought back. Found myself welling up when you reached the clapper bridge on the edge of Dartmoor as that was the first place I camped in 76. it was a magical place and 46 years later I have never forgotten it. I walked it in 1976 when it first opened and have walked it several times since. even managed it in three and a half day once but paying for it now with knackered knees (the perils of youth). Would I change that? never. loved sharing it with other people and enjoying the comradery but the special, most memorable times are doing it solo. Just one with nature with no distractions. You have sussed your way in life my friend and I salute you. If only the rest of humanity were like you. what a better place the world would be.
Wow! An amazing walk and video. An hour and 40 minutes very well spent. Those Exmoor ponies sure were an amazing sight. Thanks very much for taking us along.
Delightful 😁 reminded me along with a mate we camped by the river not far from where you camped in Withypool tho that was 1974 I think. Was a week spent on Exmoor....time to do the two moors way while the body still works, you can never be sure how many summer's you have left, best to use them ☺️
Hi Abbie. Is there a definitive map or diagram, which shows all the 'National Walks, across the country? It would be an interesting way to traverse the entire British Isles from end to end. So one could cover say- Lands End to the far end of Shetlands. Or perhaps Outer Hebrides to The Fens or Kent.
Brilliant video Abbie, you should be really proud of how well-produced it is. I love hiking on Dartmoor. I wrote a blog on a hike I did there that includes some of your route. saltoftheearth.video.blog/2019/03/08/a-journey-through-the-heart-of-dartmoor/
thanks for another inspirational video. Can I just say I was watching another of your videos yesterday and it got me out of my chair and off out to make a video! Thank you Abbie, thank you!!!
Sorry to dissolution you but wind turbines have to have fossil fuel back up power stations for when the wind doesn't blow. They cost a fortune to manufacture (steel, concrete and plastic) they are inefficient, subsidised, require a lot of maintenance, have a short life span and never produce much electricity. They are a sop to renewables. Solar is equally as bad. Wave power is a much better option.
I find these bleak places can instill a feeling of hopelessness. When the sun isn't out too it can seem dark and oppressive . When I did the Pennine Way it was so bleak I was quite depressed. That was in the days before mobile phones and you had to wait 3 days to reach a town before you could speak to your mum. Even as a Christian we have to be in a good place so as not to be overwhelmed with these places.
Most underrated chanell . It should be like 1 millions subscribers and a show on discovery chanell woman edition to bear grylls to be produced . I wish it will be done one day.
Thankyou for another amazing vid abbie, close to my neck of the woods being in plymouth and all that, even seen places i don’t even know about, so thankyou cause i might take a week off to do that trail myself, waiting for the helliberg tent to be back in stock that i want as well lol
The truth in your videos never gets old. As someone who often spends weeks at a time stuck indoors your videos give me hope that the outside is not always as bad as all that.
