Penryn Circular via Flushing and Mylor Bridge | Cornwall Walks | Cool Dudes Walking Club

A 6.8 mile walk in Cornwall, from Penryn, taking in Flushing and Mylor Bridge.
Link to Bobby Fingers - Michael Jackson Diorama - • Michael Jackson on Fir...
If you enjoyed this video, and want to help me make more, it would be really great if you joined the Cool Dudes Walking Club. You can join on KZbin Channel’s main page and click join to pay a monthly amount via youtube.
/ @cdwc
Thank you to everyone who has supported me.
The website for the club is www.cooldudeswalkingclub.com which has lists of walks and information about what gear I use, as well as merch and other stuff.
Twitter - @dudeswalking, @mareklarwood
Instagram - @cooldudeswalkingclub
Filmed on a GoPro Hero 10
Gear list on website.
Music - KZbin Library
Shadowing - Corbyn's Kites
Bolster Mix - Marek Larwood & Dave Waller
Birds - Corbyn's Kites
Ceremonial Library - Asher Fulero
Drifting at 432Hz - Unicorn Heads
Looping Ascent - Joel Cummings

[@neilmeadowcroft7569]

Excellent, I love Cornwall. Never been to that area. Nice to see the sign was just Flushing 1 and not a 2.

[@cdwc]

[@markcox5385]

Love the straddle-waddle muddy path technique! 👍

[@petergilbert7106]

Wow, great shout on Bobby Fingers Marek, he's awesome. Thanks for that.

[@cdwc]

It is incredible. I am still thinking about it about a month after I watched it.

[@arr0wfree855]

I absolutely enjoy every minute of your videos .. Nice to share these walks and travels with you .. Cheers me up too .. Thank you Marek for this Smile on me Dial .

[@cdwc]

Nice one thank you cool dude.

[@writingratty]

What an excellent video, thank you Cool Dude . I wish I learned a foreign language instead of just being ignorant when ever I go anywhere. I hope you sell some of those sketchbooks in the future

[@cdwc]

Start learning one today! I am learning French, Japanese and German on Duolingo.

[@mikeworkman3593]

Ninja Training as a kid. Hell yeah. Thats what I wish

[@katiiakt7044]

I wish I had learnt how to swim. Or how to play a tenor saxophone, the sound is so beautiful.

[@cdwc]

My friend Dave said his saxophone teacher has started him off on the Alto, and then when he progresses he will move to the tenor.

[@stripyart]

Great video Marek. Lovely to see a little bit of Cornwall. Your piano playing has inspired me to dust off my keyboard again

[@cdwc]

I have been playing mine for 18 months with almost no improvement.

[@MatthewVernalls-et4mi]

Another great video 😁 I love that you had Dave and Emer for some of the walk. P.B will always stand for Peanut Butter to me. I wish I'd learned Sign Language when I was a Youngling. Too complicated for my mind nowadays. Seeing the Keyrings is always great. The one in the Bears mouth and the one that has a Gargoyle sneaking up on it are my favourites 😁 I'd write more but, I'm knackered, so 💤💤

[@cdwc]

Sign language is a great thing to learn, my Grandad was deaf, so I learnt the alphabet so we could talk (slowly) when I went to visit.

[@jenniferburk7965]

Sometimes your videos get me with the view at the beginning, before we even get to the walking.

[@cdwc]

There were some spectacular views on the train journey.

[@grahamcope2196]

Nice one CD#1 and glad to see a different area for walking, dog cameos are a great new twist. I wish I had started something like Yoga at an early age so that I would have less aches and pains and be more supple so that when you put your socks on you don't make an involuntary groaning noise.

[@cdwc]

Don't wear socks.

[@RedshiftDougal]

4:19 Yes! The straddle-waddle is exactly what I do naturally as well. It may feel ungainly, but we straddle-waddlers stay upright. 😊

[@cdwc]

Good name for it dude

[@robertcoulter7592]

Ah mate you do make me chuckle! Love this channel mate. Keep it coming!

[@cdwc]

Nice one. Thanks cool dude.

[@MakeLAUGHnotWAR]

I see Wally (9:15) saved up all that book money and bought himself a place in Cornwall. I hope people aren't put off learning anything they want at any age, as the Chinese proverb says, "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now".

[@cdwc]

That is an excellent proverb. I am also learning Japanese on Duolingo. I am terrible.

[@MakeLAUGHnotWAR]

@@cdwc Through my love of the Japanese metal band Babymetal, I can speak about 1% Japanese well and 99% probably unintelligible, so you're not alone, lol.

[@AndiGomez-yu2dx]

6:17 the end row house. I used to live there as a kid during the early - mid 90's :)

[@georginalagos927]

Really excited to see a mini Marek in Marrickville! Yay a fellow Inner Westie Marek fan!

[@cdwc]

I expect he is the King of Marrickville by now.

[@wbblelebbw9678]

I was taking piano lessons as a child and I wanted to stop them. My mum said I’d regret it later, and I often wish I’d continued with it. Mum was right.

[@cdwc]

I was trying to get my nieces and nephew to start playing, but they are more interested in their phones. The youth are doomed.

[@osilence]

I wished I learned programmring when I was younger. But as you say, better late than .. at 60. Great video as always

[@cdwc]

The computers will be programming us soon.

[@systemSkynet]

That Flushing joke went down the pan. I wish I learned time travel when I was a kid. Balls Cross sounds painful

[@cdwc]

That was better than my Flushing joke

[@MakeLAUGHnotWAR]

Balls Cross was me, I feel like I lowered the tone 🤦‍♀🤦‍♀

[@travelbuzz1]

Ah, love Cornwall - cheers Cool Dude! Welcome to the latest Cool Dude, Emer the Dog! She looked so disappointed to go back and probably would have dealt with the cats, seagulls and pigeons along the way! 😄

[@cdwc]

I notice some pigeons in the back of some shots and shouted at my screen when I was editing.

[@gordonmatthews2032]

Nice to see you found Wally when you were wrapping up the walk.

[@cdwc]

I can't believe he came and stood behind me when I was filming.

[@lisaperry345]

Oooh I haven't been to Cornwall for years. My father in law had a holiday home in Looe and it was so gorgeous down there. I wish I'd learnt a foreign language when I was a kid. I didn't start learning french until I was 11 and by then I had no interest. Will started learning french when he was 6 and he's so good at it. I definitely think you have more of a sponge brain at that age. Yay! My mini mini Marek photo was at the end.

[@cdwc]

I am learning French, German and Japanese on Duolingo!

[@lisaperry345]

@@cdwc Bloody hell! Fair play! I'm way too much of a dizzy cow to retain that much info.

[@JessieCori]

​@@cdwc if you have questions re learning German I can help. I'm trying to learn Icelandic as I have a wild dream of living there one day.

[@JURASSICDIVERUK]

Beautiful part of the country... Looking forward to you one day visiting the Weymouth and Portland area!😊 Happy to join you!

[@cdwc]

Fingers crossed I'll get to go that way one day cool dude.

[@nature_photography_yukon]

Lovely to see a walk in Cornwall, been some years since I've been there. Great to learn some Cornish names and meanings. Emer definitely wanted to carry on the walk with you, bless her. Well done on the muddy obstacle course part of walk. Thanks Marek :)

[@cdwc]

Thanks cool dude. Emer is such a cool dog.

[@tinasmalley-craig4443]

Beautiful doggy 💜. The story of the parents killing their son that was in disguise is so tragic. Instant karma? I wish I would have sat still when I was younger and actually learned to play the piano and to speak German fluently. I know a tiny bit of both lol.

[@cdwc]

You should start again now. I am learning German on Duolingo, it is free and good fun.

[@grayfreeman]

great.

[@taylor8903]

Your muddy path technique is remarkably similar to my own

[@cdwc]

I blame mountain bikes and horses for the majority of muddy paths.

[@MoreModeratePeril]

I have fond memories of holidays in Cornwall as a child. It is a great region for walking. I trust you hummed Tubular Bells as you walked down those concrete steps in Penryn.

[@cdwc]

I did not think of the Exorcist, now the stairs seem a lot spookier.

[@elaineforse5914]

YAY a new video, best birthday present EVER thanks Marek 😊

[@cdwc]

Happy Birthday. I hope you've had a fantastic day! All the animals say Happy Birthday.

[@elaineforse5914]

@@cdwc ❤️ thank you 😊

[@MatthewVernalls-et4mi]

Happy Birthday fellow Cool Dude 😁

[@elaineforse5914]

@@MatthewVernalls-et4mi thank you!!!

[@princeandrew5430]

I wish I had learnt to control my royal urges when I was younger.

[@cdwc]

I don't like all the drone footage of walks, as although it looks nice, it doesn't relate to the experience of a walk at all (unless you can fly).

[@christopherselway2274]

I want to go on holiday

[@cdwc]

My friend Dave said it is best to avoid the summer, so go immediately.

[@christopherselway2274]

@@cdwc i can dream lol

[@Charen6]

dude I literary live here. that's crazy!

[@cdwc]

Nice one. I went to visit my friend who lives there. I did the Penryn Heritage walk too which is great (but it is on the members only bit).

[@rachelskilling5414]

Love your vids! You’re so funny! my kind of humour 💯 😂

[@cdwc]

Thanks cool dude, I am glad you enjoy them.

[@rachelskilling5414]

@@cdwc you need to do a video on Edinburgh 😊

[@matthewmulvale5747]

Hi Marek. Great episode. 👍😃 We love Cornwall, such a pretty County. If you can visit out of season, then it can be lovely & quiet. We have to go in the school holidays & it can get busy. I wished I'd have learnt the Guitar much earlier than I did. As an adult we lose patience & don't have enough time. Take it easy Cool Dude. 😃👍

[@cdwc]

I try and play my keyboard first thing for ten minutes every morning, so at least I can maintain my terrible level of play.

[@EverChangingShadow]

I don't know if anyone has said this already, I'm not going to comb through all the comments, but I think the PB on the posts at the start of the footpath below the church, means Penryn Borough.

[@cdwc]

No-one has said that. Thanks cool dude for the excellent information.

[@fiach]

I'm watching this with my whippet and was so excited to see Emer! You have excellent taste in friends

[@cdwc]

I am a big fan of whippets!

[@deblord7495]

Ahhhh, what beautiful scenery! Another enjoyable and fact-filled walk Marek, thank you. My negotiating puddle techniques are the left-right straddle or side step along the least squelchy bit of land. If I have my walking wellies on though I’ll confidently wade through any bit of soggy stuff (height of wellies depending).

[@alisoncrocker9919]

I wish I’d stuck at the piano. I started lessons at 8 years old then went to about age14 but then as I was always asked to play piano in whole school assemblies and everyone took the p@ss so I gave up ! I got to grade 5 and can still play the first few bars of Song For Guy by Elton John.

[@cdwc]

You should get a keyboard. I think you have to leave it out to play it the whole time.

[@alisoncrocker9919]

@@cdwc I’ve got a Yamaha full sized keyboard but it’s not set up all the time as I’ve no room but you are correct. The other issue I struggle with it’s the sheet music and spent hours writing the notes on to every piece I played. Piano is tough!

[@michaelwhite8031]

Same thing happened to me with my violin. Kids kept asking me to show them my Tommy gun.

[@PaintballMagazine]

Glad you made it down to Cornwall way!

[@cdwc]

Me too, it was great.

[@davem9204]

I call that method of avoiding mud in the middle of footpaths the Status Quo straddle. I wished I learnt to swim which could have save me a fortune on IOW ferry crossings.

[@cdwc]

That is a good name for the mud walk cool dude.

[@chegeny]

Wish I learnt to play piano as well. My dad had a talent with classical piano, but had no patience to teach me and my sister. I'm not horrible at guitar but piano has too many memories of dad bellowing "arpeggio boy! arpeggio!" 🐈

[@cdwc]

That is a shame. I am enjoying being rubbish at the piano and playing it without any pressure to improve, I think that has stunted my progress, but maybe the problem when you're a kid is that it feels like work.

[@Gez-C]

Nice one cool dude

[@cdwc]

[@wbblelebbw9678]

You’re showing your age with the flushing / chain reaction joke. I can’t even remember the last time I saw a toilet with a chain handle flush.

[@cdwc]

On the Isle of Wight all the flushes still have chains.

[@mattentwistle70]

Wished I had learnt guitar when I was younger, i lack the necessary dexterity and memory skills nowadays. Learning a second language would have been good too as i embarrass my wife when I simply speak English with a French/Spanish accent whenever we go abroad. Mylor has a cool early Celtic cross in the churchyard.

[@cdwc]

You should start now. I read somewhere that it is a good preventative for Altzheimers, which I am terrified of.

[@orangeedo]

I use that muddy path wide shuffle technique, but once I went too wide and almost got stuck. Since then I've cut a pair of wellies short so I can have them in my rucksack, in case of a sudden unexplained swamp.

[@cdwc]

The portable short welly plan is excellent!

[@lolly5453]

Thank god for your acrobatic skills, Marek. I thought you were gonna have to build an emergency raft for that huge muddy pathway there... but you nailed it 👏🏼 My technique is generally irrelevant as my dog (my trusty walking companion) tends to leap across like a maniac, despite me doing the slow tiptoe round-the-edges business, and I just get dragged thru the mud regardless. If I can stay standing, that’s a bonus. Wish I’d had the chance to learn dancing when I was a kid - something elegant like ballet... Seems I’m way better suited to mud puddles than “swan lake” 🤷🏻‍♀️ Thanks for another great vid 👍🏼 Cornwall looks gorgeous, I hope I get to visit someday

[@cdwc]

I think you have to start ballet when you're about three to be any good. I wonder if ballet dancers in their 40's have joint problems from all the crazy things they had to do.

[@JensRandoms]

Hopefully warmer days are just around the corner so you won’t have to deal with those muddy paths for much longer. My muddy path technique is similar to yours but with added trekking poles. I wish I’d learnt sign language as a kid. I don’t think my brain could manage it now.

[@cdwc]

I am learning Japanese on Duolingo and it is terrifying how little my brain manages to absorb.

[@JensRandoms]

@@cdwc Wow, that sounds like a challenge. Keep it up 👍🏻

[@MagpieRat]

Dogs! Acrobatics! Murder! This walk has everything. The thing I wish I'd learned when I was younger is rather boring: driving. Trying to learn in my 30s makes me feel like an absolute numpty when I see all these kids skipping out of the test centre after passing on their first try. By the time I eventually pass, cars will all be self-driving anyway...

[@cdwc]

I failed my first test at 18, then didn't take it again until I passed at 33. I haven't driven since I stepped out of the car 13 years ago. Cars are too expensive. We can both be smug that our carbon footprints are minimal.

[@chumon1992]

Driving is overrated imho, also I think a lot of people take it for granted. Like, they don't realise how actually dangerous it is because so many people do it. It *feels* like it should be nothing, but it's one of the more dangerous things people do daily.

[@jacobcarlin3843]

How to play ice hockey. It's not so easy at 32 but it is a good laugh

[@cdwc]

That is brave dude. Falling over gets more terrifying as you get older.

[@princeandrew5430]

Marek obviously has a Hotmail address as his 34th-priority burner account, and was subtly dropping it so that all his local circus related correspondence goes through that address only 🤓

[@cdwc]

I am so pleased you watched all the way to the end Pimp Andrew.

[@henriettafinch6057]

Italian. The cat is Cogo

[@munkeypants1]

Great video, cool dude. Looking forward to more Cornish walks in the near future. I wish I’d learnt to speak at least one other language fluently as my recent attempts have turned out to be rubbish. Btw could that chap standing behind you, in a striped jumper, at the end of the video have been Richard Herring…?

[@cdwc]

He was too skinny to be Richard Herring. (apologies Richard)

[@arr0wfree855]

1st 1st First 1st 1st🍀

[@cdwc]

You win.....no prizes.

[@arr0wfree855]

@@cdwc 🤟🏼You are our Prize ✌🏻Much Love.

[@chumon1992]

Oh absolutely, I really wish I had learnt to skateboard as a kid. It's so faffin difficult now.

[@cdwc]

I was rubbish on the skateboard when I was a young teenager, so I can't imagine how bad I'd be now.

[@chumon1992]

@@cdwc Same! The balance needed is far more than I have hehe

[@judybee]

Oh Yes. My 2nd-most favourite place to be. 1st of course will always be Did you bump into Sarah & Andrew (Cornish Walking Trails) whilst you were there? Always good to have a m8 called Dave who lives in Cornwall so you can go chill there. Emer was a star...the look she gave you Marek when you had to leave would melt even the biggest pigeon hater's heart! Bless her. Great strategies for mud avoiding. Cornwall is close to my heart as is IOW, which in places is like a mini Cornwall. Looking forward to your other adventures in the land of the Pixies.... x J x

[@cdwc]

I can't believe you mentioned pigeons in the post.

[@judybee]

@@cdwc It's Gus's influence you know. He's determined to convert you. By the way my other half is looking distinctly like your alter ego Sunglasses Marek at the mo after an emergency eye op at Moorfields To cheer him up I told him if they're OK for Sunglasses Marek to wear, then they're defo OK for him.

[@RandomTrinidadian]

I wished i had learned to trust my gut more as a child.

[@cdwc]

Maybe you only learn that when you get older cool dude.

[@EccentricAuntWanda1]

such a poignant moment with the whippet

[@cdwc]

I am very fond of whippets. Emer is a cool dog.

[@joannajones8218]

I really regret never learning to play the piano 😀 I suppose it’s never too late ? 😂

[@cdwc]

You should start immediately cool dude.

[@michaelwhite8031]

Nice to see you here Joanna. You really should have learned to play the Joanna (piano ) with that name. All the best from an old Votes show fan. x

[@Niac022]

I always regret not learning how to ice skate as a kid. Now I medically can't.

[@cdwc]

I miss roller skating. I loved it when I was a kid. Now I am too scared about falling over.

[@flechesbleues]

I think I would have liked to have tennis lessons as a child. They were offered at my school and I tried to sign up (even bought a racquet), but alas, apparently I wasn't good enough at tennis to qualify for the lessons (which has never really made sense)!

[@cdwc]

That is really weird. Probably something to do with horrible PE teachers. Only 3% of PE teachers in the 80's were human.

[@squalloogal]

The things we learned

[@cdwc]

These videos will be on the school curriculum soon.

[@squalloogal]

@@cdwc 😆

[@BeatTheFlash]

I'm sure someone else must have written Parish Boundary; beating the bounds and all that.

[@cdwc]

Excellent. I never thought it could be that cool dude.

[@nataliebsketching]

The sketchbook looks beautiful! Are they not viable to make for your online shop? I wonder if the Flushing in Queens, NY is named after this Flushing, or if they both just had the same idea.

[@cdwc]

Good point about Flushing. I suspect the Cornwall Flushing would be the original one. As for the sketchbooks, the problem with selling the sketchbooks, is that everything I put online I have to pay postage, VAT and tax on and I am just buying the sketchbooks at normal price, so it would make them about double the price of a normal sketchbook. I might try and sell a couple, but I only have about four of the vinyl transfers.

[@SegHD]

Mr Marek, I miss your old eBay road trips, would we see a return?

[@cdwc]

Alas, probably not for a while as they take even longer than these videos to make.

[@Elsinlock]

Hey, alittle off topic, but i was wondering if you ever watched Geo-Wizard's straight line mission videos? Feels like something you'd quite enjoy!

[@cdwc]

Yes cool dude. I have been watching since his first attempt. I am a big fan.

[@aceofpaynes]

I regret not learning to drive, although I don't think I could afford a car anyway.

[@cdwc]

I passed my test around 33/34. I still can't afford a car. Ha.

[@brianbritton3175]

I wish I had learned a foreign language, and/or a musical instrument

[@cdwc]

Start today cool dude.

[@michaelwhite8031]

No corny joke from me today as yours were bad enough. I wish l had learned Japanese as a child.

[@cdwc]

Good

[@michaelwhite8031]

Lol ! :)

[@Vurtonable]

When I was a child I wish I had learned karate and Irish dancing. No offence to the Irish but being able to whip out a well timed Irish dance would be my comedy masterpiece as well having fitness benefits for the knees. But I fear I would have confused these skills and/or miss used my kicking/dancing techniques for ill gotten gain.

[@cdwc]

I would like to see a new martial arts that is a combination of Karate and Irish dancing.

[@Vurtonable]

@@cdwc me too

[@TheMcmunro]

I never learnt to walk.

[@cdwc]

Cool Dudes Sitting Club.

[@systemSkynet]

first?

[@lizargh]

you lied!!! lied to Emer!!!

[@cdwc]

She will never look at me the same way again.

[@jbradz]

Nice one cool dude, great video as always! I wish I'd been able to try some different musical instruments when I was a kid, i might have found something I was good at. I got grade 1 in guitar and then jacked it in, just found it a bit dull - might have been different if it had been an electric guitar! I was half expecting a piano/sax duet from you and Dave to end this video

[@cdwc]

I tried the guitar too but it hurt my fingers. I think Mr. Duxson put me off wanting to try music more.

[@am1724]

Best thumbnails on YT ✅️ 🫡

[@cdwc]

[@feetunes]

Excellent video. My Dad's coming to live with us. Hopefully he doesn't arrive disguised as a traveler.... Though coming as himself might not help.... I wish I'd learnt how to play the piano. Well, I did start grade one, but gave up before overcoming even that minor hurdle. I didn't realise at the time that learning instruments was a lot more fun if you didn't just have to try to copy what the squiggly shapes on the page are doing. Although you've still got to go through the incompetence pain barrier...as you and we know so well.

[@cdwc]

Incompetence barrier!!?!!!

[@feetunes]

@@cdwc I love your piano playing Marek. Les Dawson-esque levels of skill going on there. Well, anyway, it makes me smile. :-)

[@ErinN43]

I loved seeing a new town, loved Emer, and related to the guilt of tricking a dog back onto the leash. Dave seemed nice too. I started to learn Spanish when I was a kid, and I wish I’d kept it up. Seems like a lot of the comments are about regretting not learning a second language. Do you speak a language besides English?

[@cdwc]

I learnt French and Spanish at school. I am trying to relearn French on Duolingo, as well as German and Japanese. That reminds me, I must do today's lesson.