Beautiful and deeply relaxing.

What a beautiful area, thanks for sharing it.

Beautiful walk to work on a lovely morning . Most enjoyable Steve .

Stunning and sublime, I'm turning green.

Beautiful nature places, walk, views. Video Like 👍

Such a gorgeous walk to work.

A splendid work commute, OB, you're the envy of countless millions. Very enjoyable viewing and as always, well done! Cheers.

@WalkingBooksellerOriginal

24 күн бұрын

Thanks my friend!

How wonderful. Thanks very much for this, Steve. It beats my journey to work by a mile. Several, in fact. I really must revisit Bath. Next year, maybe.

Quite nice and relaxing, also brings back memories of your Keith Roberts video for some reason. I guess that upon seeing the landscape I think 'Keith Roberts'.

Lovely walk. Very Foxxian. I might have to now go listen to The Garden and dance like a gun.

What an incredible place to live! Great video, and thanks for reminding me of The Drowned Giant! I read that many many years ago and had forgotten who wrote it! I've never forgotten the details of the giants body rotting on the beach.

GLORIOUS!

Love this !

thanks, steve. enjoyed taking a walk with you. looking forward to more btw: i just ordered your sf book from amazon. looking forward to that as well! cheers

What a beautiful walk to work , wish I had a walk like that ever day to work 💛

@WalkingBooksellerOriginal

18 күн бұрын

Thanks. I don't do this walk very often- it's too long and too cycle-crowded much of the time now, but it is great to have it as an option.

The best Canal for waterside wildflowers is the Union Canal Edinburgh.

Lovely video. You’re very lucky living in Bath. The Drowned Giant was an episode of Love, Death & Robots on Netflix a while back.

Bucolic vibes

I have been walking the canal in stages, and look forward to reaching the Bath area. Not sure however that I understand the criticism at the number of houseboats (if such they were, rather than just temporary moorings). It needs to be remembered that 50 years ago the canal was often derelict and unnavigable. For it to thrive now it needs a healthy community of both leisure traffic and permanent dwellers; the canal will decline again if this is not so, and will no longer then be an amenity to walkers either. I appreciate that sometimes stretches can appear to be a bit like a floating favela, but that didn't appear to be an issue in what was shown in the video.

@WalkingBooksellerOriginal

23 күн бұрын

Well, the walk was heavily edited to exclude a near constant stream of cyclists and runners (and this was before 8am), as I indicated, so it didn't reflect the number of boats fully either. I understand what you mean and totally get your point, but I'm simply making a comparison to the recent past- I first walked this stretch of the canal in 1985 - so that's almost forty years ago- and it was fully navigable then and much more pleasant, allowing for quiet and relatively solitary walking. I'd say my experience is a reflection of many factors- population growth, a desire to live 'off grid' while at the same time taking advantage of an infrastructure some of those dwellers may or may not be contributing to and the explosion in turning rural and semi-rural spaces into an 'outdoor playground' for the sport-obsessed. Yes, I'm looking at it from one perspective- mine- but walking, the oldest means of travelling has been further downgraded in this location by recent social changes. I'm bemoaning that, I guess. Thanks for viewing and commenting, hope you enjoy walking this bit of the canal, but be ready to dodge inconsiderate cyclists constantly.