Five Ways to Feel Cosy
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- The idea of being “slow” has been around for a while: we have had slow food, slow TV, slow travel. Susanna Thornton is a slow adventurer.
She is not as young as she used to be, but loves outdoor adventures, and goes wild camping, hiking and cycling in her own style, with a cosy tent, a flask of coffee and a battered little stove.
Are you planning on escaping the crowds and staying out in the wild overnight? Whether you're wild camping or vanning, read up on the BMC's golden rules to make sure you #RespectTheWild.
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A film by Susanna Thornton
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There is no one I know that captures the magic and reality of solo touring and camping like you do Susanna 🎉 A perfect reflection of the joy and depth of solo adventures. I hope many other women and men who might think they’d like to try it, actually take the plunge and do it!! 🤞❤️
Aw thanks for the super comment Miriam xxx You say such lovely things
Hi, I’m in my 50’s and I’m about to start my wild camping career ( too late I’m wondering) I have to pay my respects to both you Miriam and Susanna for giving me the inspiration to give it a go 😁 I have pretty much all the gear I think I need and now I’m just waiting for Aberdeenshire to supply the weather (could be a long wait 🏴🙄) Anyway respect to you both and thanks , Rob
@@robertbryant9154 Hi Robert - wishing you much pleasure for your upcoming career move 😎 I’ve no doubt you’ll enjoy it and sure if you don’t, no harm done except some money spent on gear 🤷🏼♀️ Spring weather will hopefully arrive soon for you!! Camping is such a great pleasure to have in life (in my life anyway 😊) - thanks for your lovely message!!
@@robertbryant9154 Yay! go Robert! love what you wrote, esp the Aberdeenshire bit haha, yeh reminded me how I loved working in Scotland a few years ago, but I did learn a lot about weather (and I am from Manchester haha)😁
How much I love Susanna’s view on biking and camping. 🌅🚴🏻♀️🏕 she is refreshingly grateful for the little things , views and treats and being still ☕️❣️❣️
"I'm so grateful that I can still go out and do the things that I love." --Susanna Thornton
Susanna, your videos are utterly charming. I love how you capture your "cozy adventures" and share them with us. You prove adventure is in the eye of the beholder and that you don't need to travel great distances to find what you think you're looking for. It can be found close to home, by speed of Brompton, and with lots of snacks along the way☺️
Thank you for such a lovely comment x sometimes I don't know how to say what I want to say, and then I read comments like yours and think oh yes that was it!
You have not mentioned the most important thing: you. It's your attitude that makes it all work. Bless you.
Dear Susanna (and dear Miriam), I was very impressed and inspired by all your videos and actually took the plunge and did it. I took the train to the south of France and then rode my Brompton along the Rhône to the Mediterranean Sea. And I loved every second of it, even though I was very scared before I drove.
The 5 ways to feel cosy helped a lot. Thank you
Monika
Aw Monika! That's so great! Sounds like an amazing trip, wow, bravo you!! What a lovely idea to follow the Rhone like that. God it must have been brilliant to reach the sea, after cycling along watching the landscape unfold, ahhh how lovely! Yeh about the start I can totally imagine how you felt. Even these days when I have done it so many times before, I always feel slightly sort of scared, or at least apprehensive, at the start. It is not easy to actually walk out of the door with a bike and a couple of bags, and lock the door, and turn to the street, and just go... Brilliant you did it. You did it. Yay! Thanks for writing!! Best wishes!! 💖
she's so great. if this is some sort of award submission, she deserves it
Greetings Susanna! This is very true, having a good dinner, stopping many times to enjoy the surroundings and traveling alone is the best! You go at your own pace, without rushing, enjoying the simple things!
Thank you for inspiring me to keep going, you are our best example!!!
Aw thank you for the lovely comment Vaca Verde, you put it so nicely! going at your own pace without rushing... Yep let's keep going! 😎🏕🥾🚲⛅
@@susannathornton yesss! I loved the video and the music, spectacular! greetings from the tropics!🎉🎄🥾
I think I’m repeating myself, but you are the greatest inspiration for „just go outside“ to me. And the list you presented in this movie is something to remember for the case that I am right about to overwhelm myself with a much too ambitious idea 😅
Aw thanks Karsten! about my list, actually I was cycling in the rain just now with my husband heading home, and I was thinking I should have had a sixth thing in the list really, take decent rain gear! Anyway thanks so much for watching! Happy adventures - big or small!
What a thoroughly feel good and inspirational film. Such a simple way to really connect with life. You certainly make it look so cosy. Thank you. I think of you often and hope your health is improving x
Getting me out on a bike again. Thank you so much.
I took my daughter who lives close to the river Lea, to the mouth on the Thames because you showed it to me X x
Oh that sounds lovely 😎😎🚲🚲
As always, a delightful and ever-inspiring video Susanna… and I love how you can make camping in the rain seem like the absolute best thing to do 🤣… my sincerest wishes that your treatment has been successful. Here’s to many more years of cycling and adventures for us all x❤️x
Haha aw thank you for watching and for the super sweet comment! ☔⛱🌈🏕
You are a true adventure and inspiration to us all me and my wife jill used enjoy going on disused railway tracks in North Yorkshire keep up the good work you are one in a million best regards Mark and jill x
oh that sounds great. My husband and I did some rides on disused railways last year in Sweden. Kind of fun looking out for old bits of signals and bits of platforms and whatnot, I love that. Best wishes to you both!
Well done Susanna, love all your videos and your spirit!
I love watching Susanna and her trips, she has such a great view on life and I'm so impressed by the way she is dealing with the bad bits in her life. She deserves a long and happy life. ATB Big Dave Scotland.
Aw Dave, thank you for the lovely comment ATB to you too🥰
Susanna, you have summed up your solo adventures perfectly and I know this film will inspire other too.
Thank you
Inspiring, as always Susanna.
Oh Susanna, you've done it again! (Bonjour from Canada, by the way.) Your laid-back videos are as captivating as they are testament that expeditions on a Brompton don't have to be on a large scale. I'm sure that you inspire many "Brommie" friends out there throughout the world. I have a specific question for you: when hunting for a spot to camp overnight... do you ask around... or you hope that the landowner will not be too upset to find you "there" in the morning? I am happy that your health concerns are behind you now. Please keep producing these lovely videos when you can, so we can all dream a little! Au revoir, everyone reading this...
Hi Jacques! aw thanks for the lovely comment. Yeh about hunting for spots to wild camp, no I never ask. In the UK in theory you're supposed to ask permission to camp on someone's land, but I the thing is, as a woman alone, if anyone knows where I am, it would play on my mind and make me anxious, because you never know who says what to whom and then someone thinks oh a woman alone, in that field... But if noone knows where I am, I can relax. So, yeh, I discreetly find a corner of a field under a hedge or whatever, near dusk, do no harm to anything, keep very quiet and still, sleep the night, then when it is day, I pack up leave. And that's it. I just borrow a little corner for a few hours. Then, I say I silent thankyou, and I go... Thank you for watching! Bonjour and greetings to you in Canada!!
Marvellous, thank you! Very inspiring 👍🏽😀
Thank you Susanna for your all of your video’s. Very inspiring. I love your “down to earth” way of living. You make it so easy, and in fact it is but I forgot it during life and all the expectations,… I am in my early 50’s now and recently started traveling by bike just discovering my neighboorhood, and I love it. Still learning how to slow down dough 😊. Looking forward to your next adventure ❤️
Oh that sounds great, travelling by bike and discovering your neighbourhood, yeah I love that too!
Inspiring and levelling. Superb!
Really enjoy your video accounts, this one especially. Thanks!
Another feel good video by Susanna- keep them coming
Thank you, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
If you carry a Thermos, consider using it to cook lunch in it. After a camping breakfast, which involves boiling some water, if you put 2 cups of boiling water and a third of a cup of brown rice into the Thermos, 3 hours later by lunchtime you'll have a pile of cooked rice to tuck into. After all, that rice has been slow cooking for a long time.
It's nice to have a hot rather than cold lunch sometimes.
Hi Anna Leonie! oh that's a nice idea about the rice, great to share tips! Actually an old HK Chinese friend was talking with me about the same idea just the other day. About my beloved orange flask, the thing is with that is that I use it for coffee - basically in the morning when I heat water I make a full flask of coffee plus a cup, and I drink some coffee for breakfast, and then take the rest of the coffee with me, and drink it in the afternoon. I love it - it's kind of cosy knowing that there's hot coffee in my pannier bag, ready for a lovely coffee stop whenever I want it... guess I am just a coffee addict haha. But I have a thermos pot that I sometimes use for porridge... I could make rice in that... Good idea! thanks for writing!
Thanks so much Susanna for the video. It's freezingly cold here today and we're both down with Covid so won't be getting out on a bike ride.
There are a few You tubers like yourself who remind me to look around and marvel at the beauty that surrounds us.
I wish you a Merry Christmas and all the very best for 2023.
Oh I hope you are both feeling much better soon! thank you for the lovely comment! Best wishes! x
Yeah, that moment when you're in a lovely place, and everything is sorted out, and you've got nothing to do but BE.
Absolutely lovely and cozy, Susanna.
This is such a beautiful video. Thank you for sharing your love and tips for the outdoors ❤️
Thank you for watching! and for the lovely comment x
Another lovely video thank you for sharing
Susanna i find your videos both enchanting and inspiring thanks for bringing us on your amazing adventures 😊
Thank you for watching Pat!!
I love the way you love your life
Aw thank you what a nice thing to say. Hope you find lots of good ways to love your life too
Lovely video Susanna. Travel slowly and stop a lot for treats! Wise words to live by and accurately describes my own travels. Keep well. x
Oh your adventures sound great! keep well and keep going you too!
Lovely video. What you say really strikes a chord, and as usual you've made a beautiful and inspiring video.
Love your five “tips”.
Well thats more than enough to make me smile and great idea for the BMC Film thingy.
A great story
Thanks 🌞
Another beautiful video 👍
Wonderful!
Aw thanks MsLori! glad you liked it! 😎
Lovely to hear your voice again, Susanna. Now, what do you have to say... ? (... settles back to enjoy).
How beautiful
God I love this video
Aw John, thank you!
@@susannathornton I did a bike camping seminar at my local shop last week and talked about your whole philosophy of making the experience nice without having to do a death march. I'm fascinated by your stove too and the fact that you carry a big tea kettle. Hoping to do my first trip on the Brompton soon once the snow melts.
@@johnroden785 Oh that sounds great John, your seminar! yeh I love my kettle haha. Happy cycling - spring is round the corner now, such a nice season!! 🌱🐣🚲🏕
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Another thank you, and, with apologies for such a public forum: How are you doing?
Thanks for watching! Doing OK!!
It's the simple things in life...