I’ve just done the first leg of the South West Coast Path with some friends and covered off this walk on Saturday. Started from Braunton and stayed at Appledore in the fabulous Royal George. We all thought the Barnstaple stretch up towards Instow was a boring old slog too. No gradient whatsoever and the tarmac was not our friend. A much better walk around there is from Woolacombe to Braunton the day before on our trip. Loads of wildlife. Bunnies, birds and butterflies galore. Stay cool,dude!

My al time favourite smell is probably lavender or sandalwood

Thoroughly enjoyed your commentary. I could feel your pain….but also your sense of achievement. 😁

50p to use a public toilet?!, their taking the piss!

I stayed there for a week on a junior school trip. I would have been around 10 then, I’m in my 40’s now. I remember the toilets being 2p then ah! Great video.

You should marry Rowan. I would... 🙂

didn't Tarka the Otter bite off Terry Nutkins' finger?

Yes definitely a cycle path! Lovely area, we go every year ♥️ nickname ermmmm Hubcap. I'm stuck to wheels like a hubcap.. Peggy's nickname retro Rambler, she's an 80s girl that likes to walk

Nickname > Lantern Boy.

Late watching as I've been in your favourite abode for a few days getting very much 'Otter than I should. Wow was it hot over there this time. Musn't complain. Actually visited your local Village stores & bought some home grown produce there🍓🥔🥬. Like stepping back in time with the phone box (that actually works) & tiny stores that remind me of my youth. Too hot to walk some of the old railway paths on IOW this time so just flopped out at Freshwater Bay & discovered leftover IOW festival hippies ☮who were naked on the beach😲 despite it being packed with old grannies & rather interested young fellas. Some tutting was heard & heavy breathing (but that might just have been the heat!). Great video once again Marek Love North Devon. Sorry you lost your cap x J x

Great video and amusing comments too. Seriously though, I once saw a Eurasian Lynx, sunning itself in a field early one morning near Dover, Kent. 👍

watching in 2024, protect this man at all costs

It’s lucky we live so far apart as I’d feel obligated to be constantly sewing your possessions to you with long bits of elastic so you didn’t lose them. Call me paranoid but I think your hatred of pigeons has lead you to removed my number from the generate number. Also my crap camera is so crap that it only takes blury photos. It’s ridiculously crappy. How am I expected to create art with it. Pheggffggrrrr These are the important issues I have this week.

I love your stuff, great fun

The Sandown "Clown" said he had no name. The Sam word seems to be totally unrelated. Maybe he was calling the children Sam.

Rewatching June ‘24

Beatles /nick cave/ David Bowie /black Sabbath/the doors/

Rowan the cone thief

I remember tarka the otter making me cry as a child! 😢

Was thinking it was another otter film I had seen but checked and it’s not Takka think it was about some Scottish couple who adopted a otter.also I would have any name other then TDog because it was my terrible name at School

Cycle paths masquerading as footpaths! It's enough to make a cool dude apoplectic But here in Kintyre we got our own back by building a wet and windy A road with log lorries hurtling by, masquerading as a Cycle path. My nickname would be Oi You.

Per use cost of that lost hat very high - 100% of purchase price! Oh no!

Two footpaths were in the pub having a quiet pint together and chatting. A wiry thin strip of tarmac walks in and marches up to the bar, pushing past and spilling the pint of the larger of the two footpaths. The footpath springs to his feet. "Oi, watch out, look where you're going!" he says, annoyed. The thin tarmac strip just ignores him and orders a drink. "Scuse me, mate" insists the footpath, getting angry now. "Just leave it," whispers the footpath's friend. "He's an absolute cycle path."

Be a super duper pooper scooper?

I am watching this is the Summer to cool down.

Only just worked out how to use the emojis Also I take your point about tarmac tax however there are a couple of cycle paths round our way that I use because it's better than walking along a busy road with no pavement - anyway no video of yours could ever be boring

My sister calls me Manny as she couldn’t pronounce the letter D when she was little and my Mum used to call me Milly Molly Mandy friend of Andy Pandy 😂

Didn't James may do that model Train race down this route ?

Lovely video, its a nice episode with grumpy marek in the rain while i am sitting in the garden with full sunshine with a glass of cider. ☀️

Going there and finding out it's a cycle path, I'd be livid! Ah, sorry to hear about you losing your hat, I found a North Face beanie a few months ago, you can have that, if you're ever up Cheshire way. Thanks for sharing Absolute Cool Dude No. 1 Best One Excellent Cool Dude 👍 Take care All the best D & B 👍

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Nice one, Absolute Cool Dude Number One Best One Excellent Cool Dude

Hi Marek sorry you had a disappointing slightly cursed walk. I watched it while cleaning sticky brown slime out of the bottom of my fridge, I think the slime used to be carrots and new potatoes and it was utterly disgusting! Hope that cheers you up

I lost one of my go faster sticks on my last hike, absolutely gutted - backtracked 10km and it was no where to be seen. Sad times.

Hey! Very cool video! The same route was also presented differently here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKm0e3eweLJoY68si=1oy9iCVbebAnxNzO

Well cool dude that walk looked like too much tarmac as you stated. My wifes is called madwoman, vet app and given tio her by her brother. I was once callec Mr Slaphead as like you im follicly challenged. Keep walking and eating the laces.

Nickname, maybe crick, which is a sound I make frequently while walking these days. Love the videos that start on a train or ferry-kind of a nice transition into the walk.

It seems that last place you were at might be it? The poles are clearly visible. It looks like a great explore for a kid. I absolutely love the story. I’ll be visiting the Isle in September but probably no time to check the location unfortunately.

piano is coming along great!

Unfortunately British rail are doing up these footbridges so you can't see over the top.

Thanks

I always look forward to your videos you funny bugger you

Hi Marek great video. Theres a youtube contributor called ghost train lost railways of britain showing the route from Barnstable to Bideford that you walked showing the original railway line and stations as they were originally. Just thought you might be curious. Hope you get a new hat soon cool dude 🙂

We say that about our Osprey backpack covers all the time! We use clothes pegs.

Also…have you ever had a chicken tarka? What’s it like you say? It’s like a tika just a little ‘otter :) bit of bideford humour for you there!

Wow!! I’m an actual bidiot!! No one ever goes to bideford! Well done marek! It’s lovely round there!

I found a beanie on a train 15 years ago and I still use it now. Hopefully the same thing happens to your hat.

In a parallel universe an otter just did the Marek walk and Sunglasses Otter is actually quite a nice otter.