What is full-time London narrowboat life like? The good and bad exposed – 166

From toilets to restaurants, this week we show some of the highlights and lowlights, the ups and the downs, of living in a tiny floating home right in the heart of the UK’s biggest city. Join us for tears of joy and exhaustion, and of course, a whole lotta food… 🥘🥙

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You got a really annoying task to do oh ready for a walk through London so we’re currently M on Li house cut just right near the Basin and it’s a really nice spot and we’re so happy that we’ve got it but if we want to stay here for a week we’re going to run out toilets SP Charlie’s about to embark on its

Biggest Mission yet it’s biggest and possibly most embarrassing we’re banking on using lious marinas Elson the’re Elson and pump out apparently they been broken for weeks and they’re waiting for several weeks to get apart go go Go go go go it’s on Green so what makes it even worse is parts of the toe path are closed for maintenance so we can’t just stick to the toe path yeah it’s saying go up [Applause] Here how long do you reckon we’ve done w 8 minutes a quarter of a mile so instead of being able to empty it 2 minutes away from the boat we’ve got to walk 38 minutes across the whole of London just to empty our toilet we could

Have just mooved the boat but that would have been at least eight locks for their four back who knows how many hours by the time we got back our space might have been gone so this is the best alternative that’s food light are you having a fun day in London yes

This is a very uh poo themed Journey isn’t it Amy I’m having a lovely time it’s a Love Boat life No easy oh dear those cobbles are sh we’ve got a leakage yeah oh no the cobbles have cobbles have awoken the Beast nothing to see here stinks now can’t handle the downsides of about like you didn’t deserve to enjoy the UPS here it is it’s not block it’s not blocked

It’s weird is it you go all that way and the big payoff you get to tip a load of Po into a hole oh yeah so yeah when we say we show the downsides we really do show the downsides you don’t always have to walk half an hour with you cassette but

Sometimes Elson do break and this is the reality do you still like Boat Line really veryy used to this though to be honest there’s loads of dogs in the park over there having a lovely time sorry Rufus you’re a boat dog so the facilities are right next to Victoria

Park and every Sunday there’s a food market on and we really wanted to go but we’ve got this is it acceptable to wheel a cassette for a food market we didn’t actually go into the market there’s no way we were going to drag that out so I just nipped and got

Us some catches from one of the stores now we’re just going to chill have a picnic in the park with our toilet quiz time that night we went to one of the best quizzes we’ve ever been to it was in the pub The Grapes which is

Right near the Basin and it’s super old Pub owned by Sir Ian McKellen who plays gandal there he is play against each other now off the three 1 2 3 my we’re not doing great the quiz host was excellent it was so much fun and it

Had a really fun Community vibe to it did we do well West No we have New York and Team conratulations guys yeah [Applause] Saturday today we’re going there so it’s been about a week that we’ve been M at Limehouse and it’s been so nice might be starting to be up there with one of our alltime top favorite spots because it’s just so cool to be so close to London it’s on a tube route

There’s a nice park for roofers we’ve just loved it we’ve also been really enjoying walks along the river that was shorter than it was supposed to be because I feel Uncomfortable so we’ve come back to Canary Warf cuz it’s actually one of our favorite areas of London and it’s like a 15minute walk from where we’re M just look how cool this is I don’t know we’re just so excited to be here and I just think it’s amazing that we can bring our

Little boat and just be here and explore this it’s Great we’re at the rooftop garden in Canary w so this Sky Garden actually spans the prime meridian which is the line that connects the two east and west hemispheres together so it’s basically when we say GMT time being zero this line is directly across that so on the east side they’ve got

Things like bamboo and other Eastern plants And plants like Ferns and strawberry trees on the West Side they have loads of these screens everywhere playing different things right now it’s David doent made hers in the soft Sandy BS of the river it’s just so cool like there’s so many little things going on in the city all the time stunning absolutely stunning Anyway he’s being a little train we’re going quite far out of our way to look at the brand new Elizabeth line it’s a new tube line and it’s apparently really Po can’t a lot without paying it’s a paid attraction sorry notice the mood shift you have to tap in to go down there obviously to look at the trains I just wanted to look at the trains man Thank you this place is one of our favorite places since discovering it in London so good we’ve been really excited to try out one of these Amazon Fresh stores cuz they only have them in London and I just don’t really get how they work cuz you don’t

Pay so basically the idea is you tap your card you grab a bunch of stuff off the shelves and then you leave without checking out thank you so they got those of sensors on the roof which follows you around so you just gra on it and then it adds it to

The basket and then you put it back and then you just walk out with whatever you pick up and it charges you app we don’t actually need anything we’re just really interested in the technology so we’re going to test it out by picking some stuff and seeing if it charges us for there Trick oh we need some bread I’ll buy this one we don’t need any bread well we need the experiment look we can find something else like a drink whoa he’s trying to confuse it even though if we get it wrong then it’s just going charge Char also this is the point where we

Find out that that’s actually not how it works and a just a real we they’ve got fresh stuff as well we’re not going to start picking that up and playing around want to try to trick it me so that’s it you just walk out yeah just walk

Out that feels so rough that’s so weird it just feels like we’ve stolen these things I put a drink straight in my back just walked out when do we know if we have stolen it you should get an app a notification on your phone so far we’ve stolen

Things it’ll probably be like a month’s time and we’ll get just an invoice of like 50 different washing up liquids now just hovering around outside the scene of the crime cuz we don’t know whether we’ve done it correctly maybe it’s just a test for the new Amazon

Prison for everyone that steals from the shop we’re not the biggest fans of Amazon but we have had to test out the technology and we’ve potentially got some free Pepsi Max and Falafel out of it thanks Jeff ba us it’s so choppy at the minute unbeliev

We took our silly little house on that feel like it never shows as choppy on the camera so we’ve had a little break at the boat and we’ve got Posh Restaurant tonight it’s been ages since we’ve been anywhere kind of remotely fancy we can put on nice clothes and sort of dress up

A bit bit windy so we’ve come to an all vegan restaurant that’s just opened called Mala it’s Fancy so they do small plates and big plates here and it’s all vegan and it’s all very fancy so we think what we’re going to do is just get lots of little things so that we can try lots of different fancy foods instead of just G burger and chips basically first up is

Sourdough with onion caramel butter and lap sound So it’s so fancy Oh everything’s just so Flavorful so good the sauce is so good don’t want it to go establishment ay you can’t just be scraping the sauce night next two cores are out it’s all so pretty look at this got these fancy little Guys this might genuinely Bas on the best food I’ve ever Eat I don’t know Oh I don’t what it I’ve been thinking about this dessert all day look at this it’s a vegan crumber I’ve never tried cranber before so I’m very excited Ready our second dessert is also hard to come by as a vegan because it’s say Tres Lees Tres it’s basically known as a milk cake made of three different kinds of milk I’ve never seen a v Before this is why we don’t go anywhere fancy name I do this we were doing so well we got the final pause now she’s dipping a napkin in her a couple water trying to clean her clothes look at me we live on a boat we’re not used to this kind

Of that was so good I genuinely think that was one of the best dress fonts we ever lead to obviously it’s a little bit on the pricier end cuz you’re in the very warm but it was so it was really nice to get dressed up and just try

Loads of new different flavors that we never really ever tried definitely recommend mow at Canary walk even if you’re not necessarily vegan I still think there’s a lot of FL flavors and to try where are we going where are we Going W we’re heading to Victoria Victoria Park Sunday market cuz last time we tried we had the cassette with us this time no cassettes just rofus we’re going to go see what’s there there we Go this store actually has a vegan canoli and we’ve been looking for one for years thank you very Much oh that is so good the food market was so lovely there were so many varied stalls and they had cold and hot food from local Traders it’s a really nice place to just come and hang out for the day eat loads of food and relax in the sun on the big Open Fields Like lik it quite a lot oh you just licked off my hand on the Grass That was really good I’m glad we got to explore it there was definitely a lot less there for vegans than somewhere like Camden Market or bur Market it’s still definitely worth checking out but it’s nice to just sit on the grass in the sunshine it’s the perfect Sunday Sunny

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