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The first 6 seasons of Travels By Narrowboat are available on Amazon Prime, with Season's 7, 8, 9 and the latest Season 10, exclusively on this UA-cam channel.
In Travels by Narrowboat, I journey along the UK canal system aboard my narrow boat 'Aslan' (links below), visiting new places, viewing fabulous scenery and enjoying an alternative living lifestyle.
Motorcycle Road Trips is a new series on this channel - in the first season I explore the Scottish Islands, travelling on a variety of ferries, and camping in breathtaking locations.
Also on this channel, there are various motorcycle videos, as well as videos of my VW T25 Camper Restoration / Repair, and maintenance work on a Land Rover Discovery TD5.
Photography has been a big passion of mine and as well as photography videos here on UA-cam, there's also my popular blog of all things street photography called (strangely enough), The Street Photography Blog.
You'll find all the links below.
In Travels by Narrowboat, I journey along the UK canal system aboard my narrow boat 'Aslan' (links below), visiting new places, viewing fabulous scenery and enjoying an alternative living lifestyle.
Motorcycle Road Trips is a new series on this channel - in the first season I explore the Scottish Islands, travelling on a variety of ferries, and camping in breathtaking locations.
Also on this channel, there are various motorcycle videos, as well as videos of my VW T25 Camper Restoration / Repair, and maintenance work on a Land Rover Discovery TD5.
Photography has been a big passion of mine and as well as photography videos here on UA-cam, there's also my popular blog of all things street photography called (strangely enough), The Street Photography Blog.
You'll find all the links below.
Motorcycle Road Trips - Scottish Islands - Part Three
Day 2 of my Motorcycle Road Trip across 6 Scottish islands dawns crisp and clear, as I leave Sealshore Campsite and head off towards the tiny port of Lochranza. Along the way I check out an ancient stone-circle, with a view that's to 'die' for . . .
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If you'd like to contribute to my channel & future videos, then I have a PayPal Me page. Cheers, www.paypal.com/paypalme/kevinshelley
Or please consider Buying Me A Coffee
buymeacoffee.com/countryhousegent
#motorcycleroadtrip #roadtrip #scottishislands #arran #scotland #r1200gsadventure #lagg #sealshorecampsite #lochranza #auchagallon #stonecircle #calmac #ferries #islandhopping #camping #motorcycleadventure #motorcycletouring
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Motorcycle Road Trips - Scottish Islands - Part Two
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In this episode, the Motorcycle Road Trip get's properly under way as the port of Ardrossan beckons and with it, the first of the 6 ferry journeys I'll be embarking upon on this road trip - this one being to Brodick on the Isle of Arran, an island that's not entirely as I imagined. If you'd like to contribute to my channel & future videos, then I have a PayPal Me page. Cheers, www.paypal.com/pa...
Motorcycle Road Trips - Scottish Islands - Part One
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A very good day UA-camrs and welcome to the first episode of the first season of my brand new series, Motorcycle Road Trips - 4 years in the waiting and 2 months in the making. For this season, I'll be riding across 6 Scottish islands - Arran, Mull, Skye, Harris & Lewis, Orkney and Shetland - as well as undertaking 9 ferry journeys. I begin at Kelburn Castle Campsite on the west coast of the Sc...
Motorcycle Road Trips - The Bike, Camping & Video Kit
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A very good day UA-camr's and it's finally time for the first in my "Motorcycle Road Trips" series of videos. In this 'season', I'll be riding across 6 Scottish Islands, including Arran, Mull, Skye, Harris, Orkney and Shetland. As if this wasn't enough, it'll be necessary to undertake 9 separate ferry journeys in order to achieve my goal. For this first video however, join me as I introduce you...
Homemade Baked Beans (no added sugar) & Viewer Questions
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Good day to you all and in this video I make my very own recipe Baked Beans - with absolutely no added sugar or sweeteners. Also in this video, I answer some popular viewer questions, as well as give more details of my upcoming motorcycle road trip across the Scottish Islands. If you'd like to contribute to my channel/future videos, then I have a PayPal Me page. Cheers, www.paypal.com/paypalme/...
Narrowboat Cruise For A Paint Job (and a chat)
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A very good day UA-camrs and I hope you've been keeping well. Winter is coming to an end and that can mean only one thing, Spring is round the corner and it's time give Aslan a wash, scrape, wire brush and apply some coats of fresh paint. I begin with a pleasant cruise and eventually moor up and get down to some good old elbow grease. Also, I have a few things to say, as well as some news that ...
Travels by Narrowboat - "Boata Non Grata" - S10E17
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Travels by Narrowboat - "Boata Non Grata" - S10E17
Travels by Narrowboat - "Back To The Present" - S10E16
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Travels by Narrowboat - "Back To The Present" - S10E16
Travels by Narrowboat - "What Could Have Been" - S10E15
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Travels by Narrowboat - "What Could Have Been" - S10E15
Travels by Narrowboat - "Desperate Measures" - S10E14
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Travels by Narrowboat - "Desperate Measures" - S10E14
Travels by Narrowboat - "You Are Cordially Invited" - S10E13
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Travels by Narrowboat - "The Far Unlit Unknown" - S10E12
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Travels by Narrowboat - "Passage To Banbury" - S10E11
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Travels by Narrowboat - "Passage To Banbury" - S10E11
Travels by Narrowboat - "Feeling The Heat" - S10E10
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Travels by Narrowboat - "Feeling The Heat" - S10E10
Travels by Narrowboat - "Picture Postcards" - S10E09
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Travels by Narrowboat - "Picture Postcards" - S10E09
Travels by Narrowboat - "Let's Twist Again" - S10E08
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Travels by Narrowboat - "Let's Twist Again" - S10E08
Travels by Narrowboat - "Country Life" - S10E07
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Travels by Narrowboat - "Country Life" - S10E07
Travels by Narrowboat - "Stranger In A Strange Land" - S10E06
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Travels by Narrowboat - "Stranger In A Strange Land" - S10E06
Travels by Narrowboat - "Out Here In The Fields" - S10E05
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Travels by Narrowboat - "CHG's Excellent Adventure" - S10E04
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Travels by Narrowboat - "CHG's Excellent Adventure" - S10E04
Travels by Narrowboat - "The Old Familiar Places" - S10E03
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Travels by Narrowboat - "The Old Familiar Places" - S10E03
Travels by Narrowboat - "Basin Cut" - S10E02
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Travels by Narrowboat - "Basin Cut" - S10E02
Travels by Narrowboat - "A Canal Less Travelled" - S10E01
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Travels by Narrowboat - "A Canal Less Travelled" - S10E01
Spaghetti Ragu (Bolognese) & TBN Season 10
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Spaghetti Ragu (Bolognese) & TBN Season 10
I Try Vegan Food & What I've Been Up To
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I Try Vegan Food & What I've Been Up To
Travels by Narrowboat - "The Terminator" S09E12
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Travels by Narrowboat - "Headlong Flight" - S09E11
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Travels by Narrowboat - "Headlong Flight" - S09E11
Brilliant, we have just got our narrowboat and absolutely loving this, Scotland is beautiful, thanks for vlogging your journeys 👍👍❤️
Love these vlogs so enjoyable, thanks for taking us with you 👍👍🥰
You're very welcome, thank you.
Nice videos Kevin, We've just come back from Scotland, stayed in Lochgilphead and drove around the same road as you on Arran and Kintyre so you video is bringing back lots of memories, we caught the same ferry from Claonaig to Lochranza.
Absolutely loving these vlogs. I will confess I watch a Netherlands lady and I love the feeling of being on the bike 😂, the scenery in Scotland is stunning, I love it there and so nice to see areas that I would love to live 😊❤
Thank you Jacqueline, great to hear you're enjoying the road trip. Yes I think I know the lady you're talking about. 🤗
I wish you could stop more and see the sites cycle goes way to fast to see much but the road. Best view is backward of you. Is there tripped hedges along road ? Old or new stone fences, things just fly bye. House styles village sizes. Things looked very clean. Slow down!!!!
What fantastic scenery, looks like a great trip. You do, do an excellent job of filming/editing 👍👍
Thank you Mark. Very happy to hear the road trip is being enjoyed. Cheers 🙂
Many thanks for taking me on such an interesting ride
You're very welcome, cheers 🙂
Hi Kevin I can think of no other way to describe this video other than stunning... Since day one I have watched your videos and looked at the comments made about them ???? I honestly can say that I have never read so many positive comments about your videos. It shows that you must be doing something right.. Yesterday I dragged my old Harley out and went for a ride around the Brecon beacons...all I got from the neighbours was are you mad riding a bike at your age.???? For the life of me I don't know just what age has got to do with This I renewed my license at seventy and will do it again at 75...I am getting fed up with people trying to run my life for me.. This is why I chose to remain on the canals when my parents passed away all those years ago. Born and bought up on a narrow boat and never had some one telling me to stop enjoying my life.??? If it wasn't for me becoming unable to operate lock's I definitely would not of sold up and moved of the canal system. I noticed that you mentioned peoples views on what is happening in the UK... All I can say is that I'm glad I don't own a telivision and have never bought a newspaper..I was once told that no news is good news. How very true that saying is. I just wish that people would stop telling me about someone else's comment on the TV or in a newspaper... People seem to have no thoughts of Thier own these days.. about anything at all. Anyway brother stay safe and and above all stay well.. watch out for the idiots that have a nasty habit of pulling out of a junction right in front of you...???. As no doubt you have experienced.on your travels on a motorbike.
I think there's nothing better for a creator to hear than their work inspired someone to do a 'thing'. Awesome. 🙂 As for naysayers, there's one thing I've learned, especially in this line of work - don't allow detractors to live 'rent free' in your head. If they're not for you, they're against you. Life's far too precious to fill it with those kinds of people. Have fun sir. 🙂
Thanks mate I have always lived my life as I want and will continue to do till the last breath leaves my body. You are correct about other people ..I put it down to ignorance .on Thier part ..I have found over the years that many people are a bit jealous about my ability to go where I want and when i want. Perhaps if they had worked hard and scrimped and saved to buy something they would be able to do as I do .. I personally have no time for people like them and never have..so as I have said keep safe and well mate
Will do Wayne. Yes it's a sad state of affairs that many want (expect) the pleasure with out the pain, or that there's some secret formula to it - anything except honest hard slog. 🙂
Thank you Kevin for taking the time and trouble to make these videos, it's such a treat to join you on your adventures. My parents used to take us on several holidays a year in the 50's and early 60's Scotland was always on the list of places to go, took my Dad hours to drive from Brum, no motorways then.
You're very welcome, thank you. I remember my Grandmother would avoid motorways like the plague, often spending 9 hours driving 200 miles. At the time I thought she was mad - now I completely get it. 🙂
I'm just back from going around The Mull of Kintyre, loads of quiet coastal B roads, cracking campsites and absolutely jaw dropping stunning scenery .
Wow Kevin, I really enjoyed your video, such a beautiful ❤️ place. I can't wait for next week's video mate. Thank you Take care X X X
Love it Kevin❤
Absolutely stunning! I'm so pleased Arran hasn't changed much since I was there many years ago. Still incredibly beautiful. ❤
Hi Kevin. That was a nicely paced ride. The scenery is amazing. Looks like you timed it to avoid the main tourist season 😄Take care. Nick
I'm so taken with your new theme music. I would love to hear more. How would you classify it? Did you write it? Fabulous!
Thanks Joanne. Sadly it's not my tune but from the UA-cam Creator's Audio Library
This video was stunning. I'm terrified of motorcycles but would so love to go on that tour. I am so thankful to hear your update on the people you have met on your visits. You have made my vision of the future a better one and for that - thank you. Please keep these videos coming! Becky W.
Beautimous. Totally beautimous!
Thank you, Kevin, for the wonderful scenery, history, and a bit of philosophy! Cheers!
The great thing about motorcycles is you never get lost, you just discover new and usually better and longer ways of getting from one place to another and then back again. Lovely footage.
I just got to watch this episode. I laughed at the remark about viewers telling you what you should do with your bike. The only thing I can say about your new motorcycle is it’s quiet and looks comfortable to ride on. If you were on the Harley Davidson we wouldn’t be able to hear you talk. But I do love the sound of a Harley. Thank you for sharing and can’t wait until next time!!!
Fabulous, what a place. What a drive, the BMW appears to lap it up. Looking at my silver bomb proof Merc outside, 20 years old and thinking, it could handle that. It would be testing alone, at my age. Blue horizons. You should couple up with Henroy Cole and do a travel show. Look forward to 4.
we ditched the TV 4 years ago. Our entertainment is from people like yourself who produce lovely videos for us to watch. Thank you!
brilliant thanks for sharing.
Stunning!
Another great trip with you thanks again 👍👍👌👌👏👏
I used to ride my bike on roads that went in the general direction I wanted to go, miss that. found all manner of interesting places taking the side roads, even did that on my company truck on the way home from out of town assignments. nice haircut by the way 🤣 Brilliant countryside, love it thanks for sharing.
Kevin, you are so right about how "the media" promotes fear and negativity, and yet when you turn off "the media" and just go about the world around you and the people along the way... things are far better than portrayed. I noticed that a couple of times you broke briefly into the Scottish brogue ("wee bridge" and "doon t'tha groon")... I'm wondering if being in a location influences the way we speak? Thanks for the tour... thoroughly enjoyable!
Unfortunately I have an unconscious habit of quickly slipping into the local accent and dialect no matter where I am. Has on occasions gotten me into trouble with people who thought I was taking the proverbial. 🙄
I have to ask, Kevin, whether, assuming that job wasn't a factor, you'd rather live on a narrowboat or on the Scottish islands? I ask because it's a choice for me. Thank you for this journey.
I couldn't chose sadly, so would have to say both. 🤗
Travels by Fishing Boat next? Without any fishing…. 🤔
Yes that'll do for me. 🤗
Another great video Kev ❤. Sharing.
Thank you Ron, appreciated
Beautiful lucky Kevin you got the weather as well 👍🏽👍🏽
Cheers Ian. No luck, just good planning. 😁
Hi Kevin. I enjoyed Part Three. The water shots were stunning, so still and blue! You were certainly in a remote part of the island. I’m glad you stopped off to look at the standing stones. Looked like there was some interesting history to read about them. I was concerned at you leaving the bike, but as you said, it was remote. I’m pleased to see from next week’s preview that you got your bacon and eggs! Roll on next Friday.
I live on the Isle of Cumbrae, which is opposite Largs. I am very lucky to live on a beautiful island, and I come from Birmingham. Island life suits me fine. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of your journey. Thanks Kevin.
Kevin, just buy a motor sailor (a Fisher 25 for example) and never put the sails up.
Now there's an idea 🙂
Brilliant show Kevin love it thank you
Great vlog Kevin. Beautiful scenery. Re your comments about the media, maybe the old saying should go - "there are lies, damn lies and statistics - oh - and the media".
Yes, definitely, John. 😎
It's been exciting Kevin ! End of Part 3 already ! So much more exciting if you watch them in big chunks ! I think the Castle would HAVE to be my SUMMER home ! Me and 50,000 other people ! 5555 ! Stay safe Kevin, Travel strong ! Stu xx
The castle's definitely, err, 'colourful' 🤭
@@CountryHouseGent I like the babbling brook though ! Love the countryside ! Stay Countrified ! Stu xx
Ailsa Craig ? They're Tomatoes aren't they ? I'm Binge watching parts 1 to 3 , Lovin' it ! Stay safe ! Stu xx
Never heard of Ailsa Craig tomatoes, Stu.
@@CountryHouseGent ""Ailsa Craig is a medium sized red variety of tomato ! First bred in 1908 by Nursery-man Alan Balch of Girvan , Scotland. : Introduced to Market, by Alexander and Brown in 1912 } It was named after the Island of Ailsa Craig, visible from Balch's Nursery, in Girvan.""{Wiki} Stay Tasty ! Stu xx
That's a beautiful sounding engine. 😊
I have recently added summer narrowboating to my bucket list but am ready to add a Scottish Isles campervan trip as well. The grey nomads seem quite welcome in those parts.
I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see if you got your eggs n bacon…… What a trip we’re all having! Beautiful vistas and great filming once again. Cheers from DownUnder🦜
Wow Kevin…looks like camping and biking and shooting video is extremely hard work. 😅 Thanks for all you do! ❤
Glad you are enjoying your trip, the scenery is lovely, great video Kevin. ive followed your adventures since your 1st trip on your narrowboat.
I really appreciate that, Dougie, thank you
My Saturday ritual has been restored. Coffee, toast & CHG. thanks Kevin for your outstanding videos.
Appreciated Andy. Cheers for following and watching.
Awesome, Kevin. Loving it.
Kevin, The wife and I are really enjoying your trip with you. We were wondering if you had many close calls along the way on all those narrow winding roads
Cheers. In the main, a very pleasant and uneventful trip . . . except for one oncoming nutter, driving way way too fast. Can still smell their brake pads. 🫣
I’ll never get to these Scottish Isles so thanks for taking me along as very enjoyable!
Great looking motorcycle adventure in Scotland…will definitely be buying you some coffee ☕️☕️
That would be fantastic and most appreciated Angela. 🙂
What stunning countryside you are touring round!!!! Peaceful and no car queues, road repair blockages or tooting of horns which most of the UK seem to have constantly. A refreshing reminder that there is still a pocket of bliss and serenity somewhere...... thanks for finding it. Xx
You're very welcome, as always Lynette. Thank you,
Really enjoyed this, Kevin, thanks for letting us tag along.
You're welcome Jack, thank you