Barnstaple to Bideford Walk - The Tarka Trail | South West Walks | Cool Dudes Walking Club

[@willsmith7475]

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."

[@cdwc]

This is the best ever walking joke. You deserve one million pounds for this cool dude.

[@TonyPrower]

Love it. Great piano work at the end. I must admit that I do prefer the 3rd movement of that sonata.

[@systemSkynet]

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

[@Psionikman]

real human here : L'otters are not afraid ( image ) .. over in freshie. max props to this channel tbh.

[@cdwc]

Ha, ha. Excellent.

[@RobertHoward-d8g]

After watching this, it brings to mind that I once had a chicken Tarka. It's like a chicken tika, but otter. Once again, my friend, delightful wanderings. Thank you.

[@milesmcquillen1885]

I'd like to give you 2 thumbs for that joke. But I can't. I'm stealing it anyway.

[@johnpotts1006]

😂

[@cdwc]

Ha. Excellent

[@Sparrowhawk1974]

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

[@jamesmoore4320]

Awesome video!

[@jonatanhaltorp7256]

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

[@cookster1001]

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!

[@patchso]

Woolacombe to Braunton is superb. As is the rest all the way to Minehead!

[@patchso]

Nice one! I’ve done that walk, also on a bit of a grey day. Can be a bit sameish with the tarmac path. Instow and Appledore are beautiful though. Recommend the ferry trip and the coast walk from Appledore to Westward Ho! Is superb!

[@RetroRatz]

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

[@SouthCoastDetecting]

My nickname at school was Sinbad after a girl said I looked like Sinbad from Brookside, I later changed it to Sinny and used it as a DJ name in the late 90s

[@cdwc]

Ha. Excellent cool dude.

[@BobbleHatPlum]

New video! Let's go!

[@MattG-vs2rt]

piano is coming along great!

[@JeffOnWire]

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.

[@neilmeadowcroft7569]

Tarmac, bag cover drop and lost hat, seems like a bad walk all round. Well done anyway Absolute cool dude number one, best one, excellent cool dude.

[@cdwc]

Excellent. Someone finally using my correct name.

[@carlstoltzmann4748]

Thanks

[@cdwc]

Thanks cool dude

[@BobbleHatPlum]

A cool look would be your hat attached to you somehow by a piece of string as they did with mittens when we were kids.

[@all-range-mode]

And the backpack cover

[@feetunes]

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.

[@judybee]

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

[@paulamoreton6522]

Sew 2 pieces of elastic to your rucksack cover to pass the hip belt through. Osprey have these on their large pack covers.

[@cdwc]

Good advice cool dude.

[@DaveandBuddyOutdoors]

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 👍

[@Ziggy_Shakespeare]

Leaving a comment so the algorithm extends the reach of your vid

[@mikepemberton13]

Cool Walk, I will have to have a trip to North Devon sometime

[@cdwc]

Worth a trip cool dude.

[@kevinwright5129]

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 🙂

[@Skunkola]

Aww man that was a good cap too. I like Flexfit ones and would deffo wear a Cool Dudes Walking Club one; brown? Oh, got the prize stuff btw, ty. The Pig keyring is SO NUDE!!!

[@cdwc]

I bought two exact replacements when I got back.

[@infidelcastro5129]

Nice video, cool dude. Remember to let me know if you plan to do any walks in the Cotswolds. My spare room is free 😊

[@cdwc]

Thanks cool dude

[@mandyedavis7978]

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 😂

[@cdwc]

Ha. I like obscure nicknames.

[@sueweston502]

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

[@cdwc]

Ha. Thank you. I suppose the upside is that you can walk the in winter, especially with all the rain we've been having. I might need to do an umbrella emoji!

[@francesdarcy6785]

Thank goodness it wasn't the tilly hat!

[@roystonvasey5471]

I would have thought Osprey would have a zippy up bit at the bottom to accommodate the cover as Berghaus tend to do.

[@cdwc]

Yes it is a bit sh*t for about £15

[@alanmaynard7842]

We were there last year. Don't know if you did any more videos as there is lots to see. Did you go to L&B Railway as there are quite a few nice walks around there, plus of course a ride on the train. Great video.

[@cdwc]

A couple more videos coming cool dude.

[@Niac022]

Just in case you were curious the entire Tarka the otter movie is on KZbin to watch.

[@cdwc]

Excellent

[@telboy007]

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.

[@johnheath-fi5po]

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.

[@all-range-mode]

I guarantee the next MUST HAVE ITEM from Paris Fashion week is the self holding umbrella

[@cdwc]

I knew I was a fashionista.

[@KevinCullen]

OMG Tarka The Otter... It shaped my childhood brain in the way The Children of The Stones spoke to you, I think you would enjoy it oh he who I have mentally nicknamed Cool Dude Prime... Now, I haven't watched Tarka The Otter since I was a child so it could have been some hideous mess or evil or something, I am almost scared to revisit it in case it turned out to be bad but I remember it as something beautiful but I suspect it may have some tinge of Watership Down to it but my crumbling memory could be muddling it amongst our childhood horror show of beautifully laced tales of trauma . Speaking of Osprey covers, mine is physically attached to the bag (on both Osprey bags I have, 55L and a 75L) via a convenient elasticated thingy that is in turn also attached to the bottom pocket of each respective bag which also conveniently stores the covers, mayhaps they did listen at some point, we may never know, Cool Dude Prime. Much love, Wango III guy.

[@mrcrisps3376]

All I remember of Tarka the Otter is crying my little heart out, I’ll have to revisit it too now

[@KevinCullen]

@@mrcrisps3376 I just searched for it on KZbin and it's there in all it's glory as the first result. I'm going to start watching it right now...

[@KevinCullen]

@@mrcrisps3376 I just searched for it on KZbin and it is there as first result. Watching it right now, gotta be almost 40 years since I have seen this

[@cdwc]

I will look it up and watch it cool dude

[@davis123321123]

Mine for Jen: The Pro-Crastinator Mike for Me: Sir Boosh of Klangbury - my love of Mighty Boosh and Klangbury and being a creep 😂

[@cdwc]

Excellent nicknames cool dudes.

[@antygod]

Watched the film when I was a kid, never again. It makes you fall in love with a cute otter, then it gets ripped to shreds by a pack of dogs at the end. It still traumatises me. and yes, living in Exeter I can confirm the green, white and block flag is the flag of Devon.

[@cdwc]

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!

[@antygod]

@@cdwc sorry to spoil the flag question.

[@QCB73]

I was thinking how all that concrete would do my feet and back in before you said so yourself 😩. Nicknames - mine is Anner - my name is Anna but my 'oil of woight' accent makes it sound like that and it's stuck 👍😄

[@orangeedo]

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

[@ellisgribble5729]

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!

[@krabbers]

Nickname > Lantern Boy.

[@MakeLAUGHnotWAR]

Maybe Otters ride bikes because they're saving up for a Ferrari Testerotter

[@MakeLAUGHnotWAR]

Also, your nickname should be "Administrates Cool Dudes Club", or ACDC for short.

[@cdwc]

This is an excellent one cool dude.

[@ellisgribble5729]

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

[@EDPB44]

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

[@cdwc]

I have no idea. I think he is a bell end.

[@tonyaldridge8917]

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

[@jimhardy1897]

people live on the abandoned ships

[@timelordvictorious]

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

[@martin1099lc]

Ring of Bright Water?

[@paranormalscrutineer]

My nick name would be Odysseus Starchild

[@cdwc]

A lovely one cool dude. Your zine is fantastic!

[@russellcox2731]

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

[@stuartscott8099]

Re-name the video the Tarmac Trail

[@cdwc]

I wish I had thought of that. Ha.

[@michaelwhite8031]

I take my hat off to you, but don't take yours off incase you lose it .

[@Vurtonable]

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.

[@isolationstation5157]

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