Become a Creator today!Start creating today - Share your story with the world!
Start for free
00:00:00
00:00:01
Narrowboat Beck
18 Plays2 days ago
Join Alasdair as he sits down with Beck, who gave up a more traditional lifestyle to embrace living on a narrowboat full time! This inspiring episode has lessons for us all - We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
Recommended
Transcript
Introduction to the Outdoorsy Educator Podcast
00:00:01
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Outdoorsy Educator Podcast, where stories become lessons and every journey has something to teach us. Every week I sit down with people from all walks of life to hear their adventures, explore their experiences, and uncover the insights that have shaped them along the way.
00:00:21
Speaker
Whether it's from the outdoors, the classroom, or any other path, each conversation offers a fresh perspective on learning, growth, and what it means to truly connect with the world and the people around us.
00:00:40
Speaker
And on this
Meet Narrowboat Beck
00:00:41
Speaker
week's episode of the Outdoorsy Educator podcast, we have Narrowboat Beck. Beck, how are you today? Hi, I'm really good, thank you. How are you? Doing wonderful, thank you. I've been following your Instagram journey with ah with with passion. I'm so excited to talk to you. You're doing amazing things. Why don't you tell our audience a little bit about who you are what you do? Oh, thank
Beck's Transition to Narrowboat Life
00:01:05
Speaker
you. and my name's Bec. I live on a 58-foot narrowboat called Athena. It's a relatively new journey for me. I only moved in
00:01:15
Speaker
Back in October, which is about, well, time is flying. It's about eight months ago now. it's because a yearre You're coming up on a year already. Yeah, i kind of I still feel like a total newbie with some things, but then other things, it's just second nature.
00:01:30
Speaker
So it's been a steep, steep learning curve because it's completely different to anything I've done before. But, yeah, I'm loving every minute, and I like to document my travels and adventures on the Canal Network.
00:01:43
Speaker
I love it. And I've got so many questions about life on a narrowboat, but I thought we it might be best to start off before Athena came into your life. What did life look like for you? And then what led you to start this journey on the narrowboat?
Life Before Narrowboating
00:01:59
Speaker
So this is always, i find this one a really interesting question if ever I get asked it So from an early age, I was sort of going through the motions of what i thought normal life should be. you know, i Studied really hard at school and then i went to college and then straight out of college I went into full time work. And during that I had a partner from the age of 15 and we were together for eight years. We got a mortgage together and
00:02:34
Speaker
eventually things didn't work out so we had to sadly sell the house that we'd spent years renovating together and i had to move back in with mom and dad at the age of 23 after having four years kind of freedom to you know try out this whole adult thing right and it was a bit of a shock to the system so Yeah, it was I was really fortunate to be in the situation where I had such a supportive family to go back to, to give home. Wonderful.
00:03:12
Speaker
Yeah, so all of that time I was kind of focused on, you know, getting a mortgage, getting engaged, getting married. And then all of a sudden my life kind of tipped on its head and I was left not really knowing what to do.
Discovering Narrowboating and New Adventures
00:03:28
Speaker
I felt like I hadn't really...
00:03:31
Speaker
got my own personality I didn't feel like i was my own person I was just following all these steps that I thought were expected of people and it kind of left me with a really blank slate and I thought you know what I can't spend my life kind of living as people expect what do i want to do and it kind of I almost started to delve into this chapter of me where I could discover new hobbies and the things that I liked and really consider what I wanted to do in life And
00:04:11
Speaker
Turns out I was kind of just ready for adventure. i wanted to live and explore and I've got a beautiful rescue dog as well called Ethel.
00:04:23
Speaker
um So i looked at getting houses and funnily enough the banks don't want to lend to a young single woman.
00:04:37
Speaker
or I'd put in an offer and someone else would beat me to it. And it was really just this um kind of cutthroat culture of trying to get onto the property ladder again.
00:04:53
Speaker
And I just thought, I can't keep doing this. I'm desperate for my own independence again. And i wanted to travel, but I had the kind of responsibility of being a dog owner. and anytime that I'm away from her, miss her so much. It hurts. yeah So i thought, you know what?
00:05:17
Speaker
I'm just
Choosing Narrowboat Life for Independence
00:05:18
Speaker
gonna get an arrow boat and we can travel together. We can slow down the pace a little bit and it will just give us room to blossom.
00:05:29
Speaker
I love it. We have three rescue dogs ourselves, so I can completely relate to that. they they I mean, they drive us crazy at times. But also, like we were I mentioned to you before we started recording, we were just in Scotland for a month, and we miss them. You know, you miss them terribly. Yeah. um Absolutely. And I'm also just thinking, at the ripe old age of 44, I've got the slight benefit of hindsight of thinking, well, obviously...
00:05:57
Speaker
you know, splitting from your partner and moving back in with your parents, none of that seems ideal and wonderful. But how how fortunate in a sense for that to happen at 23 and not 53 or 63, which happens to people. And yeah i just I just love the fact that you seem to have taken these adverse circumstances and grabbed it with both hands.
00:06:22
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, you sort of give no choice. You know, you can you can fight it and get nowhere and just waste your energy on it. Or you can just think, you know what, this is ah new opportunity.
00:06:35
Speaker
Let's go. Yeah, and I think that attitude would would take you and anyone else far. And i love that you you've embraced this. um What was your experience with boating, if any? I mean, going from, as you said, bricks and mortar to a narrowboat is quite a big leap. Did you have any experience in the boating world?
00:06:57
Speaker
Absolutely
The Appeal of Narrowboating Over Van Life
00:06:58
Speaker
none. I'd never even been on a narrowboat before. um I'd thought about kind of different, more nomadic ways to live, to give me a bit more freedom. And I did consider van life for a while, but I just thought, I think I want a little bit more space for me and the dog.
00:07:19
Speaker
So narrowboating was kind of another option that I think I'd not, really known about a couple of years ago. Obviously, I've walked down the canal before, I've seen narrowboats, but never really considered what it would be like to live on one, to travel on one. knew you could go on holidays on them, but yeah, I kind of went down the canal for a walk the one day. It was just a random Sunday. i had no plans for the afternoon and I just liked to walk. So me and Ethel, we went for a walk and
00:07:56
Speaker
Before I knew it, we'd walked like eight kilometres in one direction down the towpath. And I'd never felt more grounded in all my life, just taking in all the nature, chatting to people. And at that point, because it was March time, it was starting to get dark by the time i reached my destination. So we had to Uber back. Right. But i got when I got home, I just thought, wow, I feel so...
00:08:25
Speaker
almost relaxed and grounded and you know then the outdoors has always been kind of a place where I've been able to just be and gather myself and really reel myself back in when the thoughts get a bit too much so since that day I kind of just fell into this rabbit hole of research watching YouTube videos I was on like waiting lists for books at the library and ad joined like online forums and I was just learning as much as possible and looking at online
00:09:09
Speaker
adverts for narrowboats for sale and I didn't really know what to look for. I had certain ideas in my head and you know can't have something that's too big because I'll be living on it on my own trying to handle things like that and i was thinking of like all the practical things that came along with it but there's so much to learn about new systems like batteries inverters how the gas works a lot of logistical things that living in a house you just don't have to think about so i tried to do as much research as possible but there's nothing like getting hands-on experience all the theory you can learn but
00:09:50
Speaker
things still crop up today that I have no idea how to deal with and you just have to do it. and So i saw a boat that was advertised locally for sale.
00:10:01
Speaker
I went to see that and even though it really excited me i didn't quite feel, it's almost like there was a little block. I didn't quite feel like, oh, can I really do this? Like, um can I see myself living on this boat?
00:10:19
Speaker
And then i left it for a few weeks, thought about it. And as I was walking down the canal again, one lunchtime,
00:10:28
Speaker
it was almost like, out of nowhere, I saw this boat with a for sale sign in the window. and it's a
Finding Home on Athena
00:10:39
Speaker
boat that I'd literally seen countless times before.
00:10:43
Speaker
There were two little cats that lived on board. So I had pictures of those cats on my phone. As I'd gone for like walks down the canal, I'm like always taking pictures of animals. And ah just... Straight away, I saw this advert and I got onto my phone and I found the listing. And I i just had this really overwhelmingly like positive feeling. And I was like, oh my gosh, this is This is it. yep Yeah. So i I phoned the brokerage straight away and i was like, can I come and see this boat?
00:11:16
Speaker
um And they booked me and announced just as soon as I walked in, I was like, this feels like home. I love that. That's such a wonderful thing. Yeah, I bought her. The rest is history. Yeah.
00:11:29
Speaker
For those of us who are uneducated on the topic, I mean, to me, a narrowboat, I can picture it. It's a quintessentially English thing, and we've got listeners all over the world. Is there a definition of what a narrowboat is or isn't? I mean, obviously, the the name gives it away. Yeah.
00:11:45
Speaker
yeah what What makes a narrowboat Yeah. So there's a lot of kind of lingo that's thrown around by people that don't necessarily know. There are a lot of different types of boats.
00:11:59
Speaker
right and A lot of people refer to them as as barges and that's not correct. So a barge is typically something that's used for transport. It doesn't usually have like a cabin to go inside. It's just...
00:12:12
Speaker
a big kind of clunky floating thing that you can pile on heavy goods to transport. um A narrowboat, however, it's usually about six foot, just over six foot and a half wide, but they can come in all sorts of different lengths. Anything from tiny ones, like 23 foot, all the way up to 70 foot.
00:12:36
Speaker
Right. So 58. mineus fifty eight It's quite...
00:12:44
Speaker
It's kind of mid middle of the range. Like a lot of people will find this size is really suitable to live on full time. Right. um Initially I was looking for something like between 45 and 55 foot, which I think is why I'd never, I didn't find this boat online or anything in because I wasn't looking for boat this big, but a few extra feet and I'm living in it and it's,
00:13:11
Speaker
Yeah, I'm really, really chuffed with it. So it's funny how things work out. and But you have things in the UK like wide beams, which are sort of like double the width of narrowboats.
00:13:23
Speaker
But obviously they're less, you can travel less on them because the standard lock can only fit a narrowboat through it. Right. So they're sort of limited to where they can go.
00:13:37
Speaker
Right, they'll be a bit more restrictive on being able to travel around the country. Yeah. um What did your friends and family say? Because I imagine when you had this idea, you probably had at the back of your head, some people are going to think I've lost my mind.
00:13:53
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It was mixed. Right. A lot of people that knew me, they were like, you know what? That makes so much sense for you.
00:14:07
Speaker
Other people were like, what on earth are you doing? Why on earth would you do get that? Have you thought this through? And from close family, they were potentially sort of reluctantly supportive.
00:14:26
Speaker
Right. They were supportive of the idea, but they had concerns, you know, how is she going to cope on her own? What about when things break and...
00:14:38
Speaker
She doesn't know anyone that has a boat. So it's kind of that
Escaping Stagnation Through Narrowboating
00:14:43
Speaker
getting over issues that crop up. They were wondering how I'd deal with it.
00:14:49
Speaker
But I think I'd just got to the stage where I was fed up and I just thought it's now or never. if I don't take the plunge now, then there's a chance I'll live to regret it.
00:15:03
Speaker
Absolutely. And I just think it's wonderful that you've done this. um Do you think, and you've kind of alluded to this, but i'd love to touch on it again, running away from something, running towards something, a bit of both.
00:15:18
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I think at the time I was a little bit desperate to escape. h What that thing that was trying to escape what was, i can't really place my finger on.
00:15:32
Speaker
But I think I just felt a little bit stagnant. And I wanted to experience more. I wanted to grow as a person. And it was almost like taking a leap of faith into something unknown.
00:15:49
Speaker
And just
00:15:54
Speaker
trying to escape parts of my life that I wanted to change. But it's also... living on the water, it feels like coming home to something.
00:16:06
Speaker
I love that. I think sometimes we as human beings, we can chase the bigger, the better, the newer, the shinier looking for that feeling. And often it's not at the end of that rainbow, it's somewhere else.
00:16:19
Speaker
Yeah. and And I love that you found that um on the water. I was curious, again, I was thinking about living on the water and on boats in a world I know nothing about.
00:16:30
Speaker
Is there something you found that has been far more difficult than you thought? And conversely, is there something that's actually been much easier than you thought it might be?
Challenges of Narrowboat Life with Ethel
00:16:41
Speaker
So in regards finding things difficult, there's always problems that crop up, but it's not those that...
00:16:51
Speaker
um have the most impact on me and I think, what have I done? It's the fact that my dog doesn't really enjoy cruising a lot. Really? She loves being on the boat and she jumps on it. Like it's just, it's second nature to her. But as soon as the engine starts we're on the move, she, she doesn't like it. So I do kind of rely on,
00:17:20
Speaker
other people's support to get from A to B sometimes if I don't it's quite difficult on my own like if I'm going through locks and I'll absolutely need somebody to be there with me um to just help Ethel really and but sometimes I think oh gosh what have I done like it's not it's never going to be the romanticised lifestyle that everyone thinks it is and I was conscious of that but My cute little dog, she's she's getting old and I hate to think that I'm putting her through any sort of stress. So we do have to plan really logistically to get from A to B when we're moving or she'll stop at my mum and dad's for a couple of days while I can kind of push through a certain journey.
00:18:08
Speaker
But yeah, that's probably one of the biggest hardships that there is just because I feel a bit guilty about putting her through that. But she she She does take everything a stride.
00:18:20
Speaker
Good old Ethel. Yeah, i feel I feel a kinship with Ethel over here. That's just just wonderful. so you There was one Instagram reel or post that you made that really struck a chord with me because my sister um said something very similar to me a few weeks ago, and that was um playing tourist and something you get to do. Because so I've lived in Texas now just over half my life and my sister's born and raised still lives in Glasgow.
00:18:51
Speaker
And when I go home, I'm trying to make a conscious effort, not just to stay in Glasgow, but to travel around and see things. And she said, at this point, you've seen more Scotland than I have because, and and I'm guilty of this where I live now, when things are on your doorstep,
00:19:08
Speaker
oh, they'll always be there. there's no There's no need to go and see. I'll go there so at some point. But when they're farther away, you make more of a conscious effort to go and see these things. and i was just And I was just curious if you wouldn't mind talking about this a little bit, about playing tourists close to home. Because I think it's something we overlook wherever we live in the world and we should embrace more of it.
00:19:32
Speaker
Yeah, so I was completely guilty of this. I'd... when i you know when I lived in Staffordshire with my mom and dad, I'd drive to Wales to go hiking or I'd go to the Peak District. And ah but I was always using you know some form of transport for an adventure. And it was that day that I walked down the canal with no sort of end goal in mind that I really thought like, I've lived here all of my life.
00:20:08
Speaker
And why have I never done this this walk before that's literally right on my doorstep? I discovered so many things that i didn't know were were there. And yeah so I try to make a conscious effort now.
00:20:23
Speaker
One, it saves me a lot of petrol money. Yeah, right. But two, it's also... i've I've stumbled across so many places that I never would have known were there.
00:20:36
Speaker
And very often i I start chatting to people. one of the One of the places that really stands out to me, i was cruising through Dudley and there's this incredible nature reserve. um There's a place there called Bumblehole, and it's it must have been where, during the Industrial Revolution, when they created the canals, digging out the canals, they had a lot of material to just get rid of. So it all went in a pile.
00:21:08
Speaker
So through kind of this this big industrial town, you know, it's hustle and bustle, they've just turned into this the most incredible nature reserve and you wouldn't know it was there. Right. Isn't that amazing?
00:21:29
Speaker
And there's just, there's so many different trails to go down and bridle paths. There's people riding their horses. And I got talking to like a couple of people because everyone like,
00:21:42
Speaker
some of the locals go there to walk their dogs. And I was talking to this one lady and she was, she was walking her neighbor's dog. And she said the amount of people that don't, that live in the area and they have no idea that this is a huge, vast nature reserve. They've got no idea it exists. And it's just stumbling across places like that, that,
00:22:04
Speaker
I find really rewarding because it's not like they're in travel guides, you know, they're not on people's bucket lists. it's really special to almost like stumble across it.
00:22:16
Speaker
You know, they're not overcrowded. There's just so many lovely things out there are just waiting for me to be discovered. And unless you actively go out to stumble across something, in you wouldn't you wouldn't know it was there.
00:22:35
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's a really important lesson for all of us. It reminds me of a local hiking trail. It's part of a nature preserve that's two miles from our front door.
00:22:46
Speaker
And it was last year I i was there. i go i go all the time when the weather's nice. and bumped into a guy who was bird watching.
00:22:57
Speaker
And turns out he's from Glasgow, which was the first coincidence. lives Lives in the Dallas area where I am, but had driven a couple of hours up to this nature preserve because he said, oh, yeah, this place is known for that bird migration. It's a great place to see a b and C. I forget the name of the birds. That's not a world I'm really familiar with. But he was so excited about the possibility of seeing this bird or that bird.
00:23:22
Speaker
And yet there's so many people who live within a five mile radius that have literally never been to it. And yet there's people coming from hours away to look for things. And it's, yes, so much is often on our doorstep. We overlook it.
00:23:36
Speaker
And it's very interesting that a world to away you've had such a similar experience. Yeah, it almost feels like discovering a little secret. Yeah, yeah, things that people don't know about. And I don't know about you, but I kind of want to tell everybody that they don't want to tell us all.
00:23:52
Speaker
It's a so it's sort of a, yeah, a lovely little secret, um but I don't want it to get overrun. ah But yeah, this little nature preserved near us is just, it's a little haven for us.
00:24:04
Speaker
um Something I did want to ask you about was the canal, if this is the right term, the canal community. um
The Supportive Canal Community
00:24:11
Speaker
I'm quite involved with the hiking community and the outdoors community and and it's wonderful. People lean on each other full of helpful advice, practical tips.
00:24:20
Speaker
I was wondering what that looked like in in real life, you know, now that you are on a boat on the canal. I'm sure a lot of it is online and that's the way we live our lives these days. But curious as to the canal community, any acts of kindness that particularly stand out for you or where you've leaned on people to help you?
00:24:40
Speaker
it You know what? it I completely um get the whole sense of community from being in hiking groups myself and feeling like you've got a second family to to fall back on.
00:24:54
Speaker
But on the canal, it's like that, but tenfold. it's Really? Yeah. crazy it's like nothing I've ever experienced before and i always say this when I when I lived in a house I know years ago used to be friends with all your neighbors and he used to rely on them for things but I found that when I had a house I only knew my immediate next-door neighbor and that was it everyone else is too busy living their lives to kind of socialize and get to know each other and
00:25:25
Speaker
i I started off and based in a marina and just got chatting all my neighbours. You know, there was Stu who offered to take me out on my first sort of maiden voyage in my narrowboat. he was there to give me tips, get me out of any trouble.
00:25:47
Speaker
And yeah, like we did. There's many things that, I living on a boat, everyone's always got a story, whether they've tried to escape something or whether they've been through hardships and they're looking for their own little sanctuary.
00:26:07
Speaker
It's just so lovely. There was even, had a neighbor that they they'd bought a boat and over winter were storing it in the marina and they're trying to renovate it. They were from Yorkshire and my marina's in Staffordshire. So it was a long journey for them. And every time they'd come down, they'd do a little bit more renovation work on the boat. And the one day, um the lady messaged me on Instagram. She was like, oh, we're just heading off now. But I've got I've left you a bunch of daffodils on the bow of your boat just because, you know, I've enjoyed them and they've started to bloom now. And i I'd like want you to enjoy them. So it's just really lovely to have.
00:26:45
Speaker
like random acts of kindness and you know when when I set out cruising out I came across countless problems that I thought I have no idea what to do and everybody's so chatty or everyone knows somebody that can help and you know, you you kind of, the the culture is you return the favour. I was in this like quite remote village and there was a little knock on the boat and i opened it and this guy was like, oh,
00:27:18
Speaker
I've got absolutely no power on my boat. My phone's run out of charge. He was like, I don't suppose you could pop my phone on charge. And I said, here you Here's my power bank.
00:27:29
Speaker
Have it for as long as you need. Just pop it back when you're done. And it's things like that. It's almost like a very trusting community. Yeah.
00:27:41
Speaker
People look out for each other, we watch each other's backs, we'll lend people things happily and know that they'll they'll come back to us once they're finished. It's it's just really lovely how we're almost like knit together in this little family tree that you know you can meet someone one day and be best mates with them the next day.
00:28:07
Speaker
I love it. it's a As you're talking, I keep thinking about, there's a show on Netflix called Queer Eye and there was one episode of, and the whole idea is they go and help a deserving member of a community with sort of whatever it is they really need, you know renovating their house, their wardrobe,
00:28:26
Speaker
all these kinds of things. But the very final episode was a guy on a boat and he lived in a marina on a boat and he was a boat, I don't the real time is a mechanic, but that's what he did was maintenance and help people out on all the other boats.
00:28:41
Speaker
And he kind of let his boat fall into a state of disrepair. and usually on the show they bring in experts they bring in professionals to to fix the quote-unquote problems but what they discovered was all these people with very expensive boats these were clearly quite successful people who owned these boats in the marina all said hold up we didn't know your boat was in disrepair we'll be right there let me go grab my toolbox and there was just this influx of people who all said we've got you
00:29:13
Speaker
You know, you've you've looked after our boats. We didn't realise you were having these issues because you were too proud to see. We've got it. And they just piled on and repaired this boat from, you know bow to stern, I guess. And it was, you could just feel the community coming through the screen.
00:29:31
Speaker
Yeah, that's what it's like. I mean, obviously you'll get the the odd person that's, you know, keeps themselves to themselves, which is fine. But I just find that the whole thing narrowboating community really accepting. it doesn't matter what background you're from, what ethnicity you are, what religion you are.
00:29:51
Speaker
Everybody is colourful that lives on boats and everyone's just accepted for who they are.
00:30:02
Speaker
I love it. I think that's ah that's a really important lesson for all of us to take on board. As we kind of round the corner here to the end of this interview, I've got three questions I would like to ask you.
Redefining Success and Inspiration
00:30:14
Speaker
And the first is success. We all would like to be successful in life, but what does that look like for you at this stage of your life?
00:30:23
Speaker
Well, it's very different to what success looked like for me five years ago. i have got to the point where I'd like to just be and accept myself, accept my circumstances and sort of face any problems that crop up with, you know, a willingness to, to overcome it and be,
00:30:57
Speaker
carry on pursuing my passions and give myself the the permission to do that. I love it. yeah Yeah. Again, whatever we're doing in life, that's a wonderful lesson to share.
00:31:11
Speaker
Yeah. It's really like feeling like home within myself I love it. I was curious if there's been a particularly impactful book in your life. It might not be the best book, but one that has has lingered in your thoughts um over the years, something that's had an impact on your life.
00:31:30
Speaker
Oh, wow. This is a really tough question. I call myself a bit of a book collector because i always I used to read all the time and unfortunately I just don't make the time for it anymore. So I've got so many books.
00:31:46
Speaker
um yeah Yeah, I put you on the spot here. And I ask this because I think what you've just alluded to is is something that many of us are guilty of. um Like yesterday, I was on a one hour flight and I could have just plugged in a podcast. I love listening to various podcasts, but I said to myself, no.
00:32:06
Speaker
we're gonna i've got a book to read and i want to read it and of course when i do i go why don't i make more time to do this but then six weeks will pass and i haven't touched it again yeah so i was just curious as to how yeah what book is in spite i mean love kind of stories about people mm-hmm So I've read a lot of people's biographies or even autobiographies about journeys they've been on. um One quite popular one that I've read, The Salt Path, obviously it's a journey of husband and wife facing in extreme difficult circumstances and just deciding to embrace adventure. But I love the fact that
00:32:57
Speaker
when people are faced with such hardships, a lot of their healing is done out in nature. So i think that's something that that I found quite inspiring.
00:33:10
Speaker
That's something that I've interviewed people from all walks of life on this podcast. And more often than not, what you've just said there is where people come back to. Oh, really? Yeah, using nature, using the outdoors, wherever wherever they come from in life, whatever their situation, that's where they find healing and a space for growth.
00:33:31
Speaker
It's something that, yeah, I don't intend for that to be the recurring theme, and yet it just happens, which is yeah just lovely. My final question for you is If you could invite somebody to join you on your boat for the weekend and just tootle around the the canals and you get to pick their brain and have conversations with them for the weekend and and learn from them. And this could be somebody you know, somebody you don't know, somebody famous, somebody dead, somebody alive, anyone from history. If you could have them show them the ropes of the boat and get to pick their brains, who would you like to have join you for a weekend?
A Dream Guest on Athena
00:34:09
Speaker
Wow, that's an incredible question. So first thoughts that come to mind would be George Harrison. Oh, that's a good answer.
00:34:22
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Yeah. From an early age, I've been inspired by George and sort of his journey, his music, just kind of him...
00:34:33
Speaker
having this persona as being the quiet beetle when actually he's got such an interesting story. he he was, a you know, he decided to almost go on this journey of self-discovery, you know, a lot of nature-based things. He explored different religions. And I've always just found him such an interesting human to learn about.
00:35:03
Speaker
And his music is incredible, so i I'd love a little serenade from him. Right, absolutely. You could serenade you going down the... It wouldn't get much better than that, I don't think. Well, Narrowboat Beck, if people want to find out more about you, ask questions about life on a narrowboat, you know, your day-to-day living, where can they find you So I'm on most social media, so Instagram and TikTok. I'm Beck Go Solo. On Facebook, I'm Narrowboat Beck. If you just search for Narrowboat Beck on anything, that's usually my title on there. and I'm trying to start off putting more long-form content on YouTube, so watch out for that. Although i just do need the motivation to sit and edit.
00:35:51
Speaker
Yes, yeah, long form videos take a commitment, something I've not ventured into yet. But Beck, it's been an absolute pleasure.
Closing and Listener Inspiration
00:36:00
Speaker
I've learned so much and I think you've inspired everyone who's going to be listening to this episode. So thank you so much for your time today.
00:36:07
Speaker
Oh, no, thank you so much. It's been lovely.
00:36:12
Speaker
Thank you again to this week's guest and I hope today's episode was as enjoyable for you as it was for me and perhaps even inspired your next adventure. If you did enjoy the show, please be sure to subscribe, leave a review or follow us wherever you get your podcasts. You can find more information at theoutdoorsyeducator.com or follow us on Instagram, TikTok or Facebook. Until next time, thank you so much for listening to The Outdoorsy Educator Podcast.