Harpenden to St Albans Walk | Cool Dudes Walking Club

#swcwalks #swcwalks351 . A walk from Harpenden, through the new Heartswood Forest, Childwickbury Country Estate and to St Albans Cathedral.
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[@hala9175]

Yes, I do have fantasies of you having summer parties and coming as an invited guest to your grand estate. We have a delightful game of croquet in the exquisite gardens. Afterward strawberries and cream tea are served.🍓

[@zonkypuff]

I am going to try this walk on Saturday! Love the video

[@cdwc]

Good luck. Hope you enjoy it.

[@adrianperkins6892]

I recall around 1982 missing the last bus home to Harpenden from Sn'orbans and walking home. But I felt safe in those days

[@cdwc]

That is a long walk at night cool dude.

[@MakeLAUGHnotWAR]

Happy Birthday Cool Dude!

[@cdwc]

Thanks cool dude.

[@katw8814]

Broad bean plants, there’s a field of them by my house

[@cdwc]

Excellent. Thank you cool dude.

[@jamesbryer9749]

I can't believe I have found this channel, I truly loved you in Sorry I've Got No Head when I was growing up and now as I am older and found this account I have even more content to binge from you!

[@cdwc]

Dreams can come true.

[@nukathecat4319]

Absolutely love your videos.

[@cdwc]

Nice one, thank you cool dude.

[@BeatTheFlash]

Another great video, Cool Dude. I too revel at a good priced excellent burger. Broad beans, as if you need another person to tell you. Ooooh! Wimpergs on the cathedral.

[@cdwc]

I had to google Wimpergs. Now I know what they are, thanks cool dude

[@BeatTheFlash]

I love an architectural feature. One of the most overlooked buildings is the Palace of Westminster, lots of small details around the outside.

[@squalloogal]

Lunch looked good ☺️ (Keep your eye open for mail 😊)

[@cdwc]

Exciting!

[@alltheteam69]

Another good walk, they end too soon, wish they were longer. Is nice to see your drawings - thanks for it all.

[@cdwc]

Nice one. I cut all the boring bits out cool dude.

[@saikonakoshi4334]

I can't think of the most expensive thing I've broken. But I thought I would leave a comment anyway to say I love your videos. I always learn something new and the scenery is beautiful!

[@cdwc]

Nice one thank you cool dude. I am glad you haven’t broken anything and fingers crossed it stays the same.

[@-aquariuscyclingadventures2325]

Your videos do make me lolespecially 'take a peek' & as long as I'm 🤣 that's all that matters! They do say bad luck runs in 3's!🐈‍⬛ Fantasies - I've far too many to list but most do involve my bicycle, (not Boris bikes) as in me cycling off on an adventure to a 'secret sea cove'.🚴🏖 Plants - Was that Orchids, foxgloves or some kind of Lilly growing in the fields? What an excellent sketch & facts & beautiful geeselings too. I do like to hear the sound of bells ringing. "Happy Walking" & 🎂 🐄☘🌞

[@cdwc]

I think the plants are broad bean plants according to the comments, but there does seem to be some difference of opinion. I wish I could go on more cycle adventures, but I hate cycling on main roads. Hope you are going on some good trips this summer.

[@-aquariuscyclingadventures2325]

@@cdwc If you get 5 minutes, go on an off road cycling adventure around the Isle with a packed lunch & puncture repair kit I can imagine the Sunrise & Sunsets over the sea are pretty cool to look at & to film. I believe the Isle has phenomenal Stargazing sights too, with such little light pollution.

[@cookster1001]

Just this weekend, I effectively broke the vacuum cleaner. Something went up the hose completely blocking it and then I couldn’t get it down. Fashioned a hook of metal and still couldn’t get it down. The hook eventually went through the side of the plastic vacuum hose rendering it useless! Bad luck on the laptop. If I see that Myths and Legends book in the charity shop I’ll pick it up for you as a regular frequenter. Nice walk by the way. I’m off to do a small bit of the Grand Union canal near Tring soon.

[@cdwc]

Sorry about your vacuum cleaner. I hope you find a deal on a good one. Good luck on your canal walk cool dude.

[@MagpieRat]

My most expensive breakage was a whole display unit full of sewing machines when i was working in a sewing shop. Pulled the entire unit over while cleaning. My boss was the shouty type, but when she came downstairs to investigate the huge crash it was the first time I'd ever seen her go quiet and pale. Absolutely terrifying. Thanks for sharing your walk, cool dude!

[@cdwc]

I hope you didn’t get fired from the Sewing shop cool dude.

[@teaurn]

Looking forward to watching this...boring shopping first! 👍

[@cdwc]

This video might only be slightly less boring than shopping.

[@EccentricAuntWanda1]

fava beans - enjoyed it - laughed out loud at the peep drawings and facial expression regarding the man on the phone walking into frame.

[@cdwc]

I was standing miles away from anyone and he just choose to walk past me shouting when I was filming. I think I might hate everyone. Ha.

[@mrbouffant]

Nice one cool dude. You posted this just before I spent the weekend playing the organ at the cathedral. What a bunch of lovely people they are there.

[@cdwc]

That sounds fantastic. I would have loved to have heard it.

[@mrericgeorge]

Marek I get to come over your island in September to visit my son and stay in Bembridge 😊

[@cdwc]

Fantastic. I hope you have wonderful weather.

[@TravellingTorunn]

Beautiful walk, and very entertaining video as always 👍🏻😊

[@cdwc]

Thanks cool dude. My favourite bit might have been the church bells. It went on for about five minutes.

[@JohnBone]

Oh I also bought a secondhand motorcycle for about £1000 some 30 years ago. The seller told me the kickstand was unreliable and not to use it. Within 10 minutes I stopped to fill up with petrol (miserly seller had virtually drained the tank) and I stupidly used the kickstand. Bike fell over smashing the valve cover, pegs, handlebar, mirror, brake lever and fuel tank. 10 minutes!

[@cdwc]

I don't feel so bad after your stories. That must have been agonising.

[@catretriever1]

Can't believe you were in Sn'orbs cool dude. That's my neck of the woods. Those plants were broad beans I believe. Stay cool

[@cdwc]

Nice one thanks cool dude. Sn’orbs is an excellent name for it.

[@gregmcleod7597]

nice 1 cool dude

[@cdwc]

[@nilsolaf7318]

I remember walking a pilgrimage route to St Albans with my parents because they were masochists, glad to see you enjoyed it. Look forward to more content and keep walking marek!

[@cdwc]

Nice one. Thanks cool dude.

[@puddindancer]

Really enjoyed that walk. Nice one cool dude Sorry for your bad luck recently, hope ya start seeing some lucky. When I was about 3 I decided it would be nice of me to clean my Mum and Dad's brand new super expensive VCR. It wasn't dirty though so I made it dirty first by emptying used teabags all over it. I then got the cream cleaner and just went to town, feeling very proud of myself for doing a good deed. Little did I know that I'd completely buggered it! 😂

[@lolly5453]

Lol - that reminds me of a stunning abstract painting (very reminiscent of Jackson pollock) I created when I was about three y/o, in black paint, all over my mums newly painted living room walls. She only left the room for a minute and when she returned and exclaimed “what have you done?!!” I calmly told her I’d made a “splashy pig” on the wall. Like your VCR incident, I think it’s clear we both had the very best intentions!! 😅we were just misunderstood!

[@cdwc]

Ha. That is excellent. I remember when we first got a VCR we were told not to touch it as it was so expensive.

[@missSuperknitter]

Happy Birthday Marek! Hopefully you have a good time - it’s cool that the whole United Kingdom is celebrating your special day. (Have a pint or two on me - PayPal didn’t let me add a message/explanation for some reason 😅)

[@cdwc]

Thank you. That is very kind of you. That will be enough for a whole burger and chips on my travels. I will raise a toast to you when I have it.

[@jamestovell8133]

Hi Marek, I too judge a pub by the cost of its burger with cheese and bacon. I don’t mind if they’re extra just get put off if it becomes silly money. £11.95 is an absolute bargain though. Good find. Walk looked good, hope your luck has since turned.

[@cdwc]

When I first started filming these walks about three years ago the average burger meal was £12.99, now £15.99 is pretty much standard. Also everyone has started putting chips in stupid buckets so you don't get enough.

[@trevordacosta7828]

I’m a winner! Thank you Dude. Everyone who watches Marek’s videos is a winner in my opinion.

[@cdwc]

I was just about to email you. Are you still at the same address I sent your membership to?

[@trevordacosta7828]

@@cdwc Hi, yes, still at the same address, if you have the details. Keep up the great work. Thanks again.

[@matthewmulvale5747]

Hi Marek 👍😃 Great video again. Never really ventured down that corner of the country. St. Albans looks nice though. I broke the Rear Differential on an old car I had once. The bill was £1400. 😳 More than the car was worth ! 😆

[@cdwc]

Thanks cool dude. I hope you got a nice new car rather than repaired it.

[@thekentishpilgrim]

Always love a walk that ends at a nice, big church. That big one was indeed Kubrick's house. It's still in the family and his wife/widow still lives there. Pretty sure Kubrick is buried there under a big tree near the house. They actually have an art fair twice a year, one in the summer and another one around xmas time that's open to the public and they bring in food and market stalls etc. I recommend it.

[@thekentishpilgrim]

This is Carlos.. forgot to switch accounts before writing that comment.. Oh, and that crop is broad bean. I used picture this recently on a walk and found out!

[@cdwc]

A new KZbin channel! Carlos walks naked through fields in Kent.

[@thekentishpilgrim]

@@cdwc that content’s for the patreon channel!

[@jeff4493]

Winter field beans - grown for animal feed I believe.

[@cdwc]

Cool. Thanks dude.

[@samkeen1018]

I live in Harpenden (right next to Heartswood forest in fact) and it's really eerie seeing all the places you walk on a weekly basis on youtube. Great video though

[@cdwc]

Nice one cool dude. What a great place to live.

[@chegeny]

I'm sorry to hear about the rotten luck. I walked a painting into a bookcase corner once, an oil by Raoul Dufy and probably the most valuable thing we own. It was a very painful moment. It was expertly repaired and still with us. Amazing to see Kubrick's old house. I'll keep an eye out for that book.

[@cdwc]

Oh no. I bet you felt sick about the painting. I think I am so clumsy I never want to own anything really expensive. My computer was the most expensive thing I own and I broke it.

[@judybee]

Sorry to hear of your run of bad luck. I'm used to it here. We put flags out when something goes right. You get used to it after a while. Even picking a penny up and ''all day long you'll have good luck'' doesn't work here. Thinking of starting up a club for non-good luckers. Wonder how many would join up? Great walk as usual. Don't walk under any ladders on your travels Marek and find a black cat or two to cross your path along the the way :)).. xJ x

[@cdwc]

I will keep my eyes peeled for the

[@squirrelarch]

Harpenden was a great place for charity shop surfing for us poor types who couldn't afford to live there. Eric Morecambe lived there when I was very young. Keep cool that dude.

[@cdwc]

It looked like a nice place to live. I did not have time to explore it more. One day I would just like to do a book shop walk.

[@squirrelarch]

@@cdwc That’s a very good idea.

[@suzannax]

Nice drawing 👍 I think breaking my great grandmother's antique oil lamp was the worst. Irreplaceable. 😬 Burger and chips looked well good😋 can't remember the last time I had angel delight 👌

[@cdwc]

Uh-oh, that oil lamp sounds bad. Meanwhile I am a big fan of Butterscotch and Banana Angel Delight.

[@JohnBone]

I broke my arm and had to spend a couple of days in hospital. Having moved to the US and not having health insurance at the time, the hospital bill was $93,000. If any Cool Dudes think the NHS is a waste of money and everything should be private, may that be a lesson to you.

[@cdwc]

Oh god. That is even more painful than breaking your arm. I have just had to have a couple of fillings, there are no NHS Dentists on the Isle of Wight. I contacted every single Dentist to see. The prices are extortionate! £220 per filling and £95 to register and have an appointment. Not as bad as $93,000 though.

[@JohnBone]

@@cdwc That's not good, sorry to hear it cool dude. I was lucky and after a few months of wrangling and showing the hospital my pittance paychecks, they realized they'd never recoup the $93,000 and wrote off the entire debt.

[@lolly5453]

Aw Marek, your luck sounds about as good as mine lately - I’m currently dealing with a broken car and a broken dog. And even tho I didn’t break em, they are both pretty pricey to try and fix 😫 tho i admit I do have a bit of a history of making cars break... I just look at stuff and things break 🤷🏻‍♀️ guess you could say it’s a talent. Sorry to hear about your computer and stupid leaky water bottle. Hope the good luck fairy (or at least two magpies) bestow some better fortunes upon you!! 🧚🏾🤞🏼🍀

[@cdwc]

Thank you cool dude. The bad luck continued with a broken washing machine and fillings for teeth. I will keep my fingers crossed for a run of double magpies.

[@HikingWithMartin]

ahhhh when am i going to win the strawberry laces!!!!!!

[@cdwc]

You have about a 1 in a 1000 chance. So definitely at some point over the next twenty years.

[@JensRandoms]

Ooh an empty train…. The journey of dreams Waaaaay back in the late 80’s I broke my dads CD player when I was a kid. I would listen to We All Stand Together by Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus over and over again. One day it just gave up.

[@cdwc]

Ha, ha. I wonder how many other CD players that song broke. On a bad note, it is now stuck in my head.

[@JensRandoms]

@@cdwc A bad note?! You’re kidding, right? You should watch the video. It’s glorious!! In fact, you should consider making a frog emoji in celebration of all its magnificence.

[@mr.d578]

I've always wondered what it would be like to live in one of those Scrooge McDuck style mansions on The Bishops Avenue in Hampstead. Bet they'd be a b*stard to hoover. Looked like a pretty nice walk overall. Keep up the good work Burger Boy.

[@cdwc]

The cleaning and gardening would be a nightmare, and you would have to have people around the whole time. I am not sure about Burger Boy.

[@grampawud]

Cool walk. When I was a student I once broken the flat that I was living in by cooking chips after I had a few Shandy's, the chip pan caught fire after I forgot about it, I don't think I need to say anything else about this as I don't really like to talk about it.

[@cdwc]

That sounds pretty bad cool dude.

[@TrevBec]

I wrote my bloody car off last week in Beacon Alley. Luckily I came out relatively unscathed. Sorry about your laptop dude.

[@cdwc]

Oh no. That is terrible news. Hope you are ok dude.

[@hikingsolo]

Hey Marek, I have a free app on my phone called Seek, which is excellent. It tells you what sort of plant, animal or mushroom it is wherever you point the camera to. Super handy! I've never really broken anything super expensive, but when I was a mover I once carried a washing machine down a stairs and the top came off. The whole thing came loose and smashed into a wall, and both the machine and the wall were ruined. Stay cool dude 👍

[@cdwc]

I downloaded that Seek app it is pretty cool. I had a free trial on one called 'PictureThis', which was phenomenal. I used it to identify all the weeds in my garden, and then it ran out. I couldn't justify the £24.99, but it was one of the best apps ever.

[@thekentishpilgrim]

@@cdwc PictureThis still works really well in it's free state! I use it all the time.

[@ErinN43]

Years ago I left my laptop open on the table, and my then two year old spilled a fruit smoothie all over it. I was in grad school at the time, and never remembered to back up my work, so I lost months worth of stuff. When I saw what had happened, I was so mad that I yelled Goddamnit!!! and threw my phone across the room, where it smashed against the wall. The phone and computer were lost, but my son and I bounced back eventually. I think the plants are fava beans, or some sort of legume. I like the take a peak part

[@cdwc]

Man a double breakage. Imagine if the phone had broken a window, it could have been a triple! Everyone reading this should immediately back up all their computer files.

[@ErinN43]

@@cdwc Back up your computer files, and don’t immediately throw whatever is in your hand when angry.

[@lisaperry345]

Ahh I wondered if you'd get to do a walk while you were in that area. 🙂I recently rewatched the Elstree one that you did last year to see if I recognised anywhere but I didn't. This walk was way prettier though. Aww, sorry about all the bad luck you've been having recently . Meh. Years ago I was working in a factory and I broke a tool on one of the presses. They reckoned it cost about £500.Whoops. I got away with it though because I was a temp. I think they were just glad that I was buggering off anyway so they didn't have to sack me. 😂

[@cdwc]

I had a temp job at a hospital when I was a student. I had to go round all the wards delivering things that had arrived in the post and checking on orders. It was shit. My last job on a Friday was to drop off a load of tickets for a cinema premiere that weekend to manager for all the staff. When I got there she wasn't there so I just left them on her desk. I finished the job that day. A couple of weeks later I bumped into someone who worked there and they said - 'oh your're the temp who nicked all the premiere tickets so no-one could go. 'I protested my innocence but they did not believe me. So someone must have nicked the tickets off the managers desk and I got the blame.

[@lisaperry345]

@@cdwc Oh no! That's terrible that they thought it was you! God, I'd have wished that I had took them. I thought that burger was a bargain by the way! 🍔👍

[@alanmaynard7842]

Hi Marek On my 5th laptop mate. Forget how many times I have had to reload everything. One of the worst things though is as you know we have just got back from the island and while trying to edit Jan’s footage from the pocket 2. I wiped the lot!!! She is not very happy. Your dads hanging basket is up and planted. Nice walk mate.

[@cdwc]

Glad the basket is looking good, not glad about the footage. That is one of my greatest fears losing everything. I have dropped hard drives before completely wiping them. Now I have a big 10TB drive as a back up.

[@alanmaynard7842]

@@cdwc Yep

[@alanmaynard7842]

Yep thats what I am going to buy. She had about 1 hours video. Thought about cloud storage, but with portable hard drives so cheap I will go down that route. Lesson learnt. Must check out your blog on editing

[@kamrunsuravi8130]

The plants are broad bean.

[@cdwc]

Nice one. Thanks dude.

[@systemSkynet]

Ah man I'm constantly breaking expensive things. Mostly electrical. Laptops, PCs, countless phones, watches, action cameras and recently I managed to break my telly. Me and technology have never been friends

[@cdwc]

That sounds pretty expensive cool dude. I am looking forward to Jag's album.

[@Natalie-mu3ye]

I also lost a laptop to a water bottle, in uni I put my MacBook (thanks parents) in my bag along with the water bottle, which opened up. It was repaired, but Apple charges you a ton (thanks parents)

[@cdwc]

Yes my mac was five and a half years old, so it was not a complete tragedy. Ideally I would have liked for it to last about eight years.

[@davinacaine3615]

I live in Cirencester it was the second city in Roman times,

[@cdwc]

Cool. I just googled it. It's former name was Corinium. That is an excellent name for a town.

[@JohnHirstUK]

Also, that burger has the salad beneath the burger. It may just be me, but the greenery must be atop the beef.

[@cdwc]

You are absolutely correct with the order of the burger.

[@systemSkynet]

427 for first

[@angiemurphy2423]

Putting an old TV into the loft I went through the ceiling into the bedroom with the tv following after painful,embarrassing and expensive.

[@cdwc]

Oh god. That sounds awful. I suppose at least you got a good story out of it cool dude.

[@landonruiz]

Go away!

[@feetunes]

I once crashed my fiat panda, managing to put it on the roof, pointing back the way I'd been driving. Not a scratch on me! Car was a write off though. But almost certainly less expensive than your computer. Sorry. My fantasy is probably unachievable, but involves managing to avoid anything to do with that Queen fella's jubilee thingy over the next few days.

[@feetunes]

ps. Here in Campeltown you can get a cracking cheeseburger for less than 6 of Queenie's pound coins.

[@cdwc]

That is incredible. I am coming up for the burgers.

[@williamporter8718]

I broke her heart

[@cdwc]

Mr. Lover Man. Shabba.

[@Mirily]

I accidentally unplugged my computer before it had finished shutting down and then it wouldn't switch back on. Apparently I damaged a boot file! My friend was able to fix it for me but it had to be completely reformatted so I lost everything! 🤦‍♀️😅

[@cdwc]

Oh no! Always keep a back up. I say that - but I always forget to back stuff up.

[@Devilhawk666]

I do video projection art for fun. Was all setup up one time plugged the last thing in and it blew up everything. Plug was wired improperly. Lost laptop,2 projectors,external hd, and even the cables. Not cool Cool Dude.

[@cdwc]

I hate that sickening feeling when you realise that something is broken, and you keep plugging it in again to see if miraculously it will work again.

[@mjbbell]

My Mavic pro and I think I sent you it's last flight 😢

[@cdwc]

I think that film put me off ever getting a drone.

[@mjbbell]

@@cdwc The latest ones are looking a lot better but the prices have gone up.

[@haiminh_]

My lawyer has told me not to comment on rumours that I accidentally properly smashed a TV worth several thousand pounds with a flipboard stand at the place I was freelancing at, in front of several collleagues

[@cdwc]

Lawyers are even more expensive than TVs!

[@JohnHirstUK]

I broke my truck by driving it through a river. It didn't like it.

[@cdwc]

Uh oh. I hope you were insured.

[@chumon1992]

I've damaged severely but not totally fried at least two or three laptops from dropping liquid on the keyboard. and ive completely destroyed a Nintendo 3ds by dropping liquid on it. do not drink and technology friends. I think it would be sick to have a huge house a yard like that for sure.

[@Vurtonable]

I have had my heart broken repeatedly… mainly by you and your stupid strawberry laces competition… that I keep losing.

[@cdwc]

I can't imagine how awful it must be living in a world without strawberry laces. One day you will win (but maybe there won't be any strawberry laces that episode).

[@Vurtonable]

@@cdwc oh you meanie… that’s just cruel.

[@rentaghost]

Bad luck comes in threes Marek, so the laptop, blind and broken window is you done for a while. This was confirmed by the great fortune of finding a pub burger in the home counties for less than 20 quid. I think you're winning at life again already.

[@cdwc]

My washing machine also broke. Maybe I am on another run of three.

[@anthonyhatter196]

Love the mindful start to the video. But it took a sad turn with you current run of luck, Cool Dude. Let's hope it improves, with the burger luck! I have always fantasised about living in a gate house to a bigger property. I think it was sparked by reading Blott on The Landscape at a young age. CD#123

[@cdwc]

I have not read that. I will have to put it on my list cool dude.

[@SouthCoastDetecting]

The most expensive thing I’ve “broken” is a C-Scope evo 6000 metal detector, I did a review and discovered it didn’t work after they had spent two years developing it. They had to recall all the units and refund everybody…. To this day it’s still never been re-released…would have cost the company thousands ££££ nice one cool dudes

[@cdwc]

Ah Man. Did the company go bust?