FIRST Impressions after 10 days of living on a boat | Narrowboat Life

Find out what it’s like to live on a narrowboat when you never experienced boat life before. Our friend Zoe boat sit for us while we were away and she kindly agreed to share her first impressions. It was worth waiting a bit to release this video, watch till the end to find out why!

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We’ve always wanted to find an alternative way of living and the idea of moving onto a canal boat came to us in September 2018. In January 2019 we bought Alba! Watch the full story here: https://bit.ly/AlbaEpisode5

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