All Wanders
Nowhere New
10 December 2020, 12:10 to 12:55
Sector: 
SE
SE
7 images
I didn't have any time to find a new place to go today, so I'm treading old ground here. I did buy a tub of duck food from Amazon last week and today I remembered to take a little bagful of it with me on my trip to Imagine That coffee, and spent a few minutes feeding the marina slipway ducks on the...
Gothic Revival
8 December 2020, 12:12 to 12:57
Sector: 
NE
NE
13 images
I had a chance to dash down a few new roads during my lunchtime jaunt today. My favourite feature was 7 Wetherell Place, at the corner of Frederick Place, one street behind the University of Bristol Students' Union building. Apparently I'm a sucker for gothic revival, which seems appropriate for this...
Mark's Bread
7 December 2020, 12:08 to 13:00
Sector: SE
SE
17 images
I realised that if Hopper Coffee in Greville Smyth Park was in reach during my lunch hour, then perhaps Mark's Bread at the end of North Street would be do-able, too. And I was right. I also managed to cross Clift Road, with its pretty gable bargeboards, off my list, and encounter a dapper gent walking...
Alma Vale
6 December 2020, 11:36 to 12:31
Sector: NE
NE
65 images
I wasn't really feeling it when I set out today, on my first car-assisted wander. By the time I'd parked on Alma Vale Road in Clifton it was just starting to rain and I picked my way about in quite a desultory way. It felt strange, as I was very familiar with the area because I'd walked through it hundreds...
More Cliftonwood
5 December 2020, 11:38 to 13:06
Sector: 
E
E
100 images
Back to Cliftonwood for a wander that included some of the belle views of Bellevue Crescent and other bits of the easternmost part. Highlights included watching someone bump-starting an elderly Nissan Micra in the narrow confines of Bellevue Crescent.
Strangers' Burial Ground
4 December 2020, 11:58 to 12:55
Sector: NE
NE
41 images
I tried to find the Strangers' Burial Ground the last time was up in Clifton, but I'd not realised that Lower Clifton Hill continues further on after the turning with Constitution Hill. Sadly it was chained shut, but it still looks beautifully-maintained, perhaps by the same man referenced by this story...
Cliftonwood and a Secret Garden
3 December 2020, 12:12 to 13:01
Sector: E
E
55 images
I love the isolation of Cliftonwood -- the geography of it, with its solid boundary of Clifton Vale to the west and Jacob's Wells Road to the east mean that you tend not to be in Cliftonwood unless you've got a reason to be there. It's not a cut-through to anywhere, at least not from side-to-side, and...
Nothing New
2 December 2020, 12:11 to 13:08
Sector: SE
SE
32 images
This may be the very first time I've gone for a One Mile Matt wander and not actually gone down any new roads, trod any new steps. I just wanted a coffee, frankly, so I went the same old way to Imagine That in the marina and back again.
Fruitless Coffee Excursion
1 December 2020, 12:33 to 13:28
Sector: SE
SE
19 images
Unfortunately by the time I got to Greville Smyth Park I was already about halfway through my lunch-hour, and the queue was too long to wait to actually get a coffee. Is that a fruitless excursion? Presumably a coffee bean is technically a fruit...
This kind of vague musing was sadly overshadowed by...
Ten O'Clock Shop and Can't Dance Coffee
30 November 2020, 12:53 to 13:40
Sector: NE
NE
32 images
I had to return a faulty AirPod Pro to Apple (there's a first-world problem!) so I just took a quick trip up the hill to the nearest UPS drop-off point, The Ten O'Clock Shop, which is famously open until 11pm. Unfortunately it's a fairly cramped little place and neither of the staff were wearing masks,...
The Hot Well, Avon Gorge, Downs and Clifton with Sarah and Vik
28 November 2020, 11:04 to 14:38
Sector: 
NW
NW
94 images
A long ramble, starting with trying to find the Hot Well of Hotwells and leading up the side of the Avon Gorge to the Downs and then through Clifton for coffee.
The Long Lunchtime at the End of the World
27 November 2020, 12:38 to 14:23
Sector: E
E
59 images
I took an extra-long break at lunchtime today as I'd taken the day off my normal day-job to do the accounts for my previous side-job, which is still generating paperwork, though not much in the way of money. This took me through some undiscovered bits of Cliftonwood, including Worlds End Lane, which...
Avoiding the Accounts
26 November 2020, 10:26 to 12:11
Sector: NE
NE
85 images
I took the day off my day job to do my accounts—or at least do enough bookkeeping to send them to my accountant. I hate doing the books. I woke up late, tired and with a headache and decided to bunk off for a walk around Cliftonwood, Clifton Village and Clifton instead, taking in a couple of good coffees...
Underpass
25 November 2020, 12:05 to 12:52
Sector: SE
SE
17 images
A quick lunchtime jaunt for coffee. I've often wondered about the dots on the wall of the underpass. Apparently they're not intelligible Braille. Maybe it's Marain :D
Hopper Coffee, via a destroyed traffic light system
24 November 2020, 12:05 to 12:51
Sector: 
S
S
13 images
I have no idea how anyone managed to smack this street furniture so hard, or what direction they came from to do it. It's a pretty straight 30mph road right there, and this is only one side of the dual carriageway. Never seen so much as a near-miss there.
Clifton Hill
23 November 2020, 12:09 to 12:45
Sector: E
E
36 images
I've just got to the bit in Fanny Burney's Evelina where our eponymous heroine visit a grand house on Clifton Hill during her stay in Hotwells. It was interesting to wonder if it could be any of the places I passed in my lunchtime jaunt, which took in both Clifton Hill and Lower Clifton Hill.
From...
Bedmo and Ashton Court
21 November 2020, 11:43 to 15:22
Sector: 
SW
SW
126 images
A rather more wide-ranging weekend wander with Sarah and Vik, taking in some mock Tudor bits of Bedmo (I should note that I've subsequently been corrected to "Bemmie", but I'm an outsider and have been calling it "Bedmo" for short for decades...), a chunk of Ashton, a path up Rownham Hill called Dead...
And Back Down the Hill from the Flu Jab
21 November 2020, 10:00 to 10:26
Sector: 
N
N
21 images
This is my return from getting my annual flu jab at Christ Church, as explained in more detail in my wander up the hill.
Up for the flu jab
21 November 2020, 09:26 to 10:00
Sector: N
N
22 images
A trip up the hill to get my winter flu jab. I'm not sure I really needed it this year, what with avoiding Covid—I haven't had so much as a sniffle in more than a year—but seeing as they offered... Instead of the doctor's surgery on Pembroke Road, they'd taken over Christ Church, presumably to give...
Clifton Village Mini Wander
20 November 2020, 12:24 to 13:12
Sector: NE
NE
35 images
Just a quick wander up the hill to get a flat white from Twelve. I really enjoyed the spooky mannequin (?) in the window.