Bembridge to Whitwell | The Vectis Trail - Stage Four | Isle of Wight Walks
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- The fourth day of the Vectis Trail, a 74-mile walk on the Isle of Wight. I started at Bembridge Windmill rather than Brading. This walk visits Borthword Copse, America Wood, Ventnor Downs before arriving at Whitwell.
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Song of Sadana - Jesse Gallagher
C Major Prelude - Bach
Stinson - Reed Mathis
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Tchaikovsky - Me on Keyboard
I watch all your videos start to finish but sometimes forget to comment. Your videos are so enjoyable to watch... and it feels like the viewer is getting a private walking tour to all these awesome places. The style of delivery is so down to earth and downright hilarious! Cheers as always!
Nice one thanks George very kind.
We once got off the train at Brading to walk to Bembridge. We got lost after 30 seconds and when we thought we found the correct footpath, we asked a young chap "what's down that path?" to which he replied "my grandads shed". He said it in such a way that if we wanted to see his grandads shed he wouldn't have minded.
I wonder if his Grandad’s shed was full of mummified walkers.
Thank you for showing me your windmill, Marek. Only the youngest girls get to see my windmill 🥰
I hope you aren't selling pictures of your windmill to make money like me.
@@cdwc Thanks to the lovely British tax payers, I don’t need the extra cash - so I can keep the pictures all for myself 😊
I too used to love Pacers especially the adverts with the 'woop, woop, woop' sound as the stripes appeared on the ice skaters outfits. I also remember boiled sweets called Mummies that came in two flavours and had scary Tales from the Crypt on the back of the tube wrapper. Am still on track for Freedom of the Island woooohoooo!
I think you might be the last surviving person in the Freedom of the Isle challenge cool dude.
I reckon the residents of Niton are still all on the fiddle. Thanks for putting my mini Marek pictures up, couldn't have timed that better. Stay cool
Got them just in time.
Great video mate - really enjoyed it
Nice one. Thanks cool dude.
Beautiful skies and clouds on this walk.
Sausage sandwiches are delicious.
Fish finger sandwiches are also cool.
Yes I love a fish finger sandwich. The question is how many fish fingers? Three or Four?
@@cdwc Mmm. I’d like to say four fish fingers but I should probably stop at three.
I really enjoy your videos😄
Part of this walk looked more like an assort course. A lot of interesting ww2 stuff happened on the . Little known fact. Over 200 tons of bombs were dropped on Cowes in 1942 as the Germans tried to destroy the arms industry on the island. Love the windmill painting.
That is a good fact. This walk was exhausting and not especially interesting, hands down the worst one of the six day walks. Hence me talking quite a lot of nonsense in this episode.
@@cdwc yes I agree. Not the best one of the walk so far but still entertaining.
I love Pacers - I really miss them. Used to eat them with my brother when my dad went to 5 a side football and we were forced to sit and watch.
Was also great to bump into Marek on this stage of the walk - woo woo! Bucket List item number 37 (meet one of my hero’s ) ticked off. Although I was cycling rather than walking, but had to push my very heavy bike up St. Boniface Down.
Stay Cool
Cool Dude #777
It was great to meet you cool dude. I wonder if Pacers had some horrific E-numbers in them that forced them off the shelves.
Jolly Good!
The Wet Leg video was made on Ventnor Down near the old radar station, which you walked past.
Ahhh I was only half a mile off.
Those discount codes, very funny.
They all work I promise.
Is devil's finger on this walk...ahaha
Cheers for that class programme on cbbc mate👌👌
Nice one.
I had not thought of 'piglets' in years, I used to love those baconny goodness bites with some sharp edges like the ears.
The one thing I miss the most though are Rowntree Secret.
I never had one of those as I thought it was too sophisticated looking for me, but I have just read the description of it and it sounds delicious.
Loved this,but one i love the most was when you done the isle of wight,which is on my to do list"husband says not allowed to use a car" debs xx ps i think as not many cockneys left say your a 💎
Thanks cool dude. Good luck if you ever do your Isle of Wight walk.
Another fine entertaining walk. I always associate Pacers with the petrol station at the end of the road where my primary school was, only place I could get them.
I miss Romantica it was like an ice cream gateaux with toffee, caramel and biscuit. Oh and SuperWhip, cream so dense it stuck to the spoon when held upside down!!!!
Romantica is an excellent name for an ice cream dessert - for the perfect evening in with a loved one.
Greetings o cool one, the Vectis trail.. sounds like something out of Blakes 7 !! The food I miss that they don't make anymore would be Findus crispy pancakes yum yum
Findus Crispy Pancakes we’re gross. Ha.
Borthwood Copse nettlesexcellent views., and Tchaikovsky. That's a lovely watercolour of Bembridge Windmill. A few videos ago, your art inspired me to start painting again.
Excellent cool dude. So pleased to hear you are painting again. I hope you are enjoying it. It is often my favourite part of a walk.
Funny but feel the same as you about the old wax museum when i pass there 😔 Pacers we're a heavenly mint sensation. Why they ever disappointed off the shelfs is travesty! Always enjoy your walks. Look forward to your next one :-)
It was one of the greatest tourist attractions on the island. If not the greatest.
I am reading a book to my 8 year old called "Festergrimm" by Thomas Taylor about and old abandoned wax works museum! #readingchallege I miss taking 50p to local sweet shop, as a kid, and spending 10 minuets to choose individual 1p sweets from the shop keeper - service in them days was excellent!
The old sweet shops with the massive plastic jars of sweets were great. I wonder how many years some of those sweets were in them for.
I was talking about Grimm’s Fairy Tales the other day. It was quite brutal compared to modern kids stories.
The comment about Island buses is so true during the summer months they used to be always late only for it to be full and sail past. I often used to walk home from Newport to Carisbrooke. When I moved to Portsmouth it was like Christmas having so much choice of buses going in the same direction. There were 5 Magpies, several pigeons and numerous starlings making a racket in my back garden this morning 😂
I think the buses were about one every two hours. Hence my beetroot face trying to keep on course to catch it.
I miss the original Arctic Roll which was gigantic and tasted better than it’s smaller relative of today. Also any desert by Sara Lee which were frozen cakes etc. When I was younger and living at home my mum would have her choir members round for a sing song and I’d always have one eye on the defrosting cake in the kitchen, ready for afters. Every week I’d be told off for slicing off a bit of the perfectly circular desert! 😂
I had an arctic roll recently too and I thought I remembered them being much nicer in the old days. I think they've gotten a bit stingy with the jam.
Was going to bid on the picture till i seen the latest bid 😂
I cant think of anything I used to eat that isnt a thing anymore cause the one thing I had actually made a come back recently and got redistributed. Idk if you have them there but they're a snapple brand thing and it's a drink that comes in different really nice flavors and each is named after something like rain, fire, air, sun, moon, etc. Very tasty. There are a lot of flavors of things that have gone now like certain Ben and Jerry's flavors and stuff like that that I used to love. For that particular example my favorite was Vermonty Python. Soooooooo gooooooodd
Also I've realized something. Your cutaways where you just show scenery with pretty soothing music reminds me of a show I used to watch as a kid called Little Bear. The music was all like that and the art was so pretty. Makes me feel really nostalgic for it.
That Vermonty Python is an excellent name for a drink.
@@cdwc I'd love a whole series of drinks with a silly pun version of each of their names. The collective would be called Monty Pythons Flying Drinks.
Spangles. Especially the yellow ones. I had no idea what flavour they were…
Well done marek another brilliant video I done the iow coastal path 2 weeks ago very nice done it in 3 best bit were the woodfords sausage rolls 😀 used to love golden orient biscuits gone but not forgotten keep up the good work and stay cool
Those sausage rolls are incredible. Well done on doing it in three days. Exhausting.
Cheers mate was a lot tougher than I expected as you said the bus time seemed rather strange so did about 9 miles more walking to b and b's lovely place though can't believe I only just done it I live in gosport your videos spurred me on thanks
Well done Marek.
Aww it was nice to get another look at Bembridge windmill at the beginning of your walk. Utterly adorable! We're going to visit a windmill over the weekend called Little marton and I can't wait!
Food and drink I miss-when I was a kid, my local shop sold a soft drink called vampire's blood and it was so nice. I think it was cherry flavour. I imagine it made me bounce off the walls because it was ridiculously sweet. I haven't seen it for years. The other food I miss is ready salted chip sticks. You can get the salt and vinegar ones everywhere but the ready salted ones seemed to disappear.Pom bears are nearly as nice though and Aldi's rip off of pom bears. Stay cool.
I agree about the salted chip sticks. Sometimes the salt and vinegar ones are just a bit too much. They used to do a mixed multipacks at one point.
Hope you enjoy your windmill jaunt and maybe you will find a can of Vampire's Blood on the way.
Had to watch the subtitles on this one as sound on computer went a bit dodgy 🤪...have you ever actually read them? Hilarious! Apparently you cooked 6 ostriches to go in your buns and ate a packet of Pond Bears 🐻 for lunch amongst other classic misspellings!! Makes your already brill vids even more watchable to giggle at! I see your feature of ''will he get to the bus stop in time'' is back again...Phew...minutes to spare again 🕔. I regret to inform you I managed to fail miserably this time with the challenge and shall be buying that Farmer a pack of Clearasil for his pimples🔴🔴🔴 so he doesn't fool me again. Drat. The Windmill painting is fab...currently at £56.00. Marek's Masterpiece x J x
Ha. I think I might start calling them Pond Bears from now on.
Nice painting of Bembridge windmill, used to sledging on the hill as a kid it did snow in winters back then. Lovely painting, I'll put in a bid.
My Dad took us sledging once on Culver Down on the hill that leads down the the caravan park. It was absolutely lethal.
I was so distracted looking at the clouds and the landscape views, that I missed all the interesting historical info.
Don’t worry it wasn’t that interesting.
I enjoy craghoppers stuff too. Got a brilliant rain jacket years ago still waterproof today. And yes I got it on sale.
They are really good. I also talked about the zip off trousers I got, but has to cut it as it was turning into a Craghoppers advert.
Buying at retail price is for suckers.
Miss the Texan chocolate bar… and Haunted House ice lollies.
I remember the Haunted House ice cream packaging but am sad to report I never tried one.
@@cdwc They were delicious. 40+ years on I can still remember the taste.
That end keyboard was great! Kinda like Erik Satie having a stroke….much love Merrick
MAREK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@cdwc right, like I said, Marek!
I miss the Walkers "Tiger nuts" which were not actually Tiger Nuts as such, but peanuts coated in a crispy batter and then flavoured vinegar... But they only went out of production about 2 years or so ago.
I wonder if all the stuff taken out of production is taken to a big freezer somewhere to be kept forever. I like the fact the British Library has every published book, they should do the same for food.
Food I miss most was the Heinz baked bean frozen pizza. I think it didn't catch on as it sounds odd but it was delicious. Also the bean layer was like napalm if you didn't let it cool down. Tastes like burning!
I never tried that cool dude. It sounds quite traumatising.
I'm still grumpy to this day that they discontinued Milkybar Choos in the 90s. They were the best sweet ever. I used to make a detour on my walk home from school to the other side of the village to get one from the Post Office for 20p and... oh my god I'm an old person, when did that happen?
Were they at all like the Milk Bottle sweets? I like those. I bought some for my nephews birthday the other week and it took a lot of willpower not to eat them myself.
@@cdwc I have a bag of those in the cupboard right now! Well... half a bag. Yes, they were similar to that texture & flavour, shaped like a finger of fudge, with a thin coating of Milkybar chocolate. So good!
You missed out the crippling hill hill from the railway tunnel to the top of the downs, good move!
I knew I did the right thing. I lost faith in Barbara and Iris's Walking routes on day three when I walked up and down three hills for no reason.
I miss football crazy crisps, these were football shaped bacon flavour crisps, 7p a pack in the late 70s
I remember those at school in the very early 80s I think.
I miss the 'tangy' worcestershire sauce Twiglets so much. I still fairly often go down that aisle, living in hope, but no joy. In other news, my dad (in retirement) used to volunteer for the countryside service doing things like putting up stiles and fingerposts one day a week. I think it was organized through the council, so I suppose it varies region to region. I think he also occasionally had to deal with farmers who didn't maintain their footpaths properly!
I can understand it must be annoying for farmers having walker trample through their fields but trampling everywhere and getting lost must be worse.
Get a Craghoppers promo code pleassse. I buy Craghoppers trousers every year and get my mum to wrap and give them back to me for Christmas. Lined, loads of pockets, all their trousers are great. When they get old a bit of nikwax can darken them a bit and give them a bit more life. I get through them but fading, a bit of spent fabric - they still work great for gardening and Asda trips even if maybe they aren't up to wearing to formal dinners and royal funerals.
I have sent this video to them I hope they sponsor me and I get invited to a Royal funeral so I can wear their stuff.
i miss fruit and tapioca pudding for babies and a lemon verbena dessert made from powder with water .. cant even find it when i google ... and a Campbells concentrated tomato and rice soup
The lemon dessert sounds nice cool dude.
I miss Aztec bars. I use to love the old Mars bars as a kid, they were so big you could bite the chocolate off before eating the inside.
I remember when Mars Bars were a size that was actually fillling.
Hi Cool Dude. Sausage sandwich, now you are talking. King of sandwiches. Texan chocolate bar, “Sure is a mighty chew”, is my childhood sweet. There is one for sale on eBay for £99.99 lol. Just got my prize for last weeks draw, many thanks and keep up with the great vids.
I am going to buy a load of lesser known chocolate bars tmw and put them in the freezer and sell them for £100 in ten years time. Glad the prize got there cool dude.
Craghoppers should absolutely sponsor Marek as he would be an excellent ambassador for the brand. He lives and breathes the nosilife!
As for food I miss well, back in the states, when I was a young boy we had Spider Man cereal. It was rice cereal with marshmallows but what made it so good was the ratio or marshmallows to cereal was like 80-20 which was unheard of. I loved it and of course they pulled it off the market after just a few years. They were probably blowing through their margins packing so much marshmallow in each box!
I'm surprised Spiderman was able to catch criminals after eating a bowl of that every morning.
Thanks
Thanks cool dude. That is very kind of you.
Loving the videos Marek.
If you are ever up East Manchester (Klangbury) way then give me a shout .. would love to walk and talk 👍🏻
Good old Klangbury!
Excellent series but I'm not motivated to do the Vector walk!
Fruit Allsorts, they were zero liquorice allsorts, stopped being made in 2008 😢
I don't remember those cool dude.
Now that I live in the USA, I miss meat and potato pies, ALOT.
Good old Shepherd's Pie.
Just checked the eBay painting auction. Holy smokes…£80+ already
This is excellent news.
I miss the school dinners at Kitbridge Middle School on the I.O.W.. they were pretty damn good 😆
I remember having a spam fritter at Forelands Middle, and the weekly card you used to get to take to the till where they would punch holes in according to how many items you had.
@@cdwc We had the same at Solent Middle. 4 units a day. 1 drink. Chips, Pizza and a doughnut
Now being in Australia there's heaps of food I miss from the UK.
- Frazzles
- Shreddies
- Revels
Among many others...
I cannot imagine a life without Frazzles. I am never going there again.
Hi Marek, love your paintings, howabout a watercolour walk?
Yes, I will definitely do one of these soon. I have just realised it is getting cold though. Ha.
What up cool dude, you look like Mr NoseyBonk 😀😃
The most terrifying creation on kids TV. Thanks
I like topic choc bars and can't find any in the shops anymore.
Topics are one of my favourites too. The last regular one I had was ridiculous though about half the size of what they used to be.
@@cdwc Ive just done research and apparently they don't make topics anymore because of a decline in sales.
Such a lovely view on your walk. Even with a few moody clouds.
Do you remember those He-man jelly things? I loved those as a kid. And the mini polo mints that came in a giant polo container. I guess I’m a sucker for novelty foods.
Awesome painting by the way
Those He-Man jelly things were absolutely delicious. They should bring those back.
Personally I miss Brannigans ham and mustard crisps. But when googling Viennetta to show a foreign friend once I stumbled on a forum just full of people from all over the world lamenting the loss of various flavours of Viennetta, the closure of the Walls factory shop where people used to buy Viennetta 'seconds' because "some idiot hurt themselves on one of the freezers and decided to sue". There was someone in Alabama sharing that they'd sighted some caramel biscuit Viennetta in a local supermarket, which created a real buzz in the forum. I felt like I was in some sort of Viennetta-obsessed twilight zone and reckon my foreign friend went away with the belief that english-speaking people are mental.
I am still sad they stopped making those crisps. They tasted more like mustard than real mustard. I did not know about these many different flavours of Viennetta. But I got a Birthday Cake special edition one for £1 at Tesco's recently.
I miss the Jamaica Rum Chocolate bar very much indeed. I used to chuck all my pocket money on that one thing when I was 6 or 7. 150 yards to the newsagents. Gobbled up by the time I got home. They don't do it now. I put it as a request for my Secret Santa recently (age 50 something), coz I found something online that was called that. It was just a block of very dark chocolate. Worst Christmas ever! Like discovering that Willy Wonka doesn't exist.
I have not tried that chocolate bar. I can distinctly remember being a Caramac from the tuck shop as they'd run out of Mars Bars and being fascinated by the taste.
@@cdwc Forgot about Caramacs. I liked them too. That was definitely an occasional buy for me.
Commenting again because I felt the need to point out that I was out of the challenge last part, but also failed this one too. I think this one's probably the worst eventuality coming from wanting a strawberry lace.
Unlucky on the challenge cool dude.
@@cdwc I'd say any situation involving a farmers pimple hair is quite unlucky indeed.
Foods that you can’t get(technically) veggie haggis. We can get it,but we have to drive up to Scotland ! Great video cool dude 👍🏻
It sounds gross. Ha.
It sounds gross. Ha.
It’s as lovely as pigeons 🐦
I really miss Pacers
I love Michelob beer, Anhauser Busch only sell it as a horrid low carb beer now. A massive shame.😎
Craghoppers provided they are at half the price of rrp. which seems to be the norm, are pretty good quality at a good price. But with a lil shopping about Rab,Montane,Mountain equipment can be found same price or cheaper. I still love Rusks but not seen them in 20 years.
The zip off trousers by Craghoppers are excellent too!
I miss those chocolates that were made to look like cigarettes. They came in a cigarette packet and were wrapped in edible paper. I used to look so cool pretending to smoke them.
They were really hard to light.
They were delicious, with the rice paper.
Google/TH-cam randomly suspended my account so I missed a couple of months. Back in the club now though!
That is terrible cool dude. I am still cringing about accidentally calling your parents dinosaurs.
@@cdwc it was a priceless moment 😂
Today's walk profile looks like a Tour de France stage that decides who the winner in Paris is going to be. No longer available food that I miss, Campbells Meatballs in Chicken Gravy - amazing with rice. What was the final price for the Windmill picture?
I think it was about £40 for the Windmill picture.
nice 1
I'm glad I chose 2 and got a strawberry lace lol. This is going to be an odd question but, when I saw the trails that had a lot of growth around them I kind of panicked a little.....do you ever worry about ticks?
I worry about ticks about 50% of the time, and I spray my ankles with some sort of toxic repellent called 'Jungle Fever'. Zip off trousers are good for long walks as if it gets really bad you can go from shorts to trousers again. Nice one.
Love the videos! Longer please! Also I think your mic has a little vibration noise or interference... not sure what it is. Keep it up though!
Yes. It is a weird thing that happens with my voice and microphones when they are too close. It has happened with a lot of radio mics and even sound men have commented on it when I do acting work. Some of it is the mic tapping against my shirt. But the faint buzz is something to do with my voice. It is very strange.
Another classic, including great lines like 'not the greatest of names but the greatest of shirts', and 'almost looks normal' - could there be a more British compliment? I am sure I will not be the only person now trialing 'Buttocks10' as my new default discount code on every site. If it works, I'll let you know. Next time you hit one of those wooden boardwalks, surely it is a chance for Sunglasses Marek to walk like a model? And finally, I miss both Splicer bars and Texans. The former was like a fruity pacer bar, the latter a toffee bar with a choc coating that shattered into a billion tiny piece at first bite, rendering the choolate nothing more than a distrction and clothing stain. CD #123
I don't think anyone wants to see me walk like a cat walk model. Meanwhile BUTTOCKS10 works on everything. I promise.
What happened to the wax museum? I remember going as a kid
The exhibits were sold off or scrapped and it is now a restaurant and hairdressers.
@@cdwc thats a shame thanks for letting me know
Hilarious
Foods you can't get that you like... every year butty shops bring out really lovely sandwiches and baguettes for Christmas, then go back to the boring ones the rest of the year. Why?
This is a very good point. I hope sandwich shops are reading this.
I fear Heinz Tomato Relish seems to have gone extinct as I haven't seen any for years. It was my favourite 😞 I wondered if you were going to play out with a bit of Wet Leg I'm sure they must watch your videos being fellow Islanders 👀
I agree. Heinz Tomato Relish was delicious. Have people stopped eating relish? This is what I said to myself out loud in the condiments section of Tescos.
I also tried to work out a Wet Leg tune on my keyboard to play immediately after I mentioned them, but I don't have the ear to copy it alas.
@@cdwc I contacted Heinz this was their response :
Hi Garry
Thank you for getting in touch with us about our Heinz Tomato Relish. Unfortunately, we no longer manufacture this particular variety.
All consumer feedback is a valued source of information as this forms the basis for future product development and innovation. With this in mind, your comments have been forwarded to our Marketing Team.
Thank you for taking the time to contact us and for your interest in our varieties.
Kind Regards
Lyndsay
@@garrymartin6474 this is excellent research. I hope the marketing team get back to you.
Great view over the field of sunflowers. Did you paint it?
I didn't have enough time as the walk was so long.
Did you go to the Whitwell library Marek? ( Can't miss it as it is in a big red telephone box.)
No I had to catch the bus and it was a Saturday. I did not even know it was there.
Sausage, mustard, tomato ketchup AND relish? Is there a limit to added condiments?
It is an excellent combo.
farleys rusks
When you was a baby you looked like Boris Johnson!
I think you'll find he modelled himself on me.
@@cdwc and why not sir
Marek... Stop being mean to pigeons. Also what does "nice one" actually mean? You do say it a lot but sometimes you say it in a different context. I would also like to congratulate you on the cherry tomatoes you ate with your lunch last time. I fear the lack of vegetable encouragement has left you thinking no one cares about you eating a vegetable. I do care deeply about your colon amongst other parts of you. How about some onion, lettuce or even more tomato with your sausage sandwich. Or maybe a side salad. Cucumber? Also if you like tomato relish then you will like eating in NZ. Nearly every café in NZ serves food with a side of tomato relish regardless of if you want it or not. Even food you wouldn't think to pair with tomato relish will come with tomato relish. I have accustomed myself to this, but it was disconcerting for the first few years of being here. And the food that I can't get my hands on is strawberry laces... but my UK MIL asked what I wanted for Xmas. I asked for 1 packet of Tescos Strawberry Laces. So I may be eating them very soon... I'm rubbing my hands in glee and smirking.
Tell your Mother in Law you can get three packs of strawberry laces for a pound. You should expect at least three in your present.
Maybe NZ is responsible for the tomato relish shortage over here.
P.S. I hate pigeons.
@@cdwc interesting… I wonder if she thinks I’m worth a whole pound.