All Wanders
Quick Coffee
19 November 2020, 13:18 to 14:10
Sector: 
SE
SE
28 images
A sunny day, and though I should have probably headed for less well-travelled territory I just headed over to the Marina to grab a flat white from Imagine That's horsebox café.
Computer Game Puzzles and the Way to Greville Smyth
18 November 2020, 12:14 to 13:01
Sector: 
S
S
27 images
In which our intrepid hero levels up.
Jaunt to a Closed Coffee Shop
17 November 2020, 12:07 to 12:54
Sector: 
E
E
48 images
A fruitless wander, as Spoke and Stringer (who I thought might do a decent flat white) were closed, and the only other harbourside inlet offering were a bit too busy to wait at, especially as I'd spent some time wandering some of the convolutions of Rownham Mead. This last congeries of dull alleyways...
Dowry Square Jaunt
16 November 2020, 12:21 to 12:47
Sector: E
E
26 images
A quick lunchtime jaunt to Dowry Square, which is very close to me but, being effectively a cul-de-sac as well as a square, I've probably only circumnavigated a couple of times in the last couple of decades.
Sunday Afternoon
15 November 2020, 12:21 to 13:07
Sector: S
S
35 images
A walk back from Bedminster to my place, mostly down Duckmoor Road, which I found a little dull—probably because it reminded me a little of the suburbs I grew up in on the outskirts of London—then held up slightly by some filming on Ashton Avenue Bridge. They were trying not to let the crowds build...
Sunday Morning
15 November 2020, 07:14 to 09:22
Sector: SE
SE
82 images
My friend Sarah mentioned the high tide and I managed to drag myself out early, though still a little late. We nearly drowned in torrential rain, but the weather changed quickly and we ended up walking over to Bedminster in sunshine.
Hotwells and Clifton/Clifton Village
14 November 2020, 11:31 to 13:37
Sector: 
N
N
40 images
A local walk with my friend Lisa in tow, including a coffee from the cafe in the Clifton Observatory, where I have fond memories of experiencing my first camera obscura, and cake from Twelve in Clifton Village, one of my favourite recent finds for both food and flat whites.
Rabbits, bad pedestrian signage and good coffee
13 November 2020, 13:18 to 14:13
Sector: S
S
25 images
A quick trip with the aim of finding a better way to Greville Smyth park and a good coffee. Sadly I was stymied yet again with the former—it turns out that you do apparently have to take a strange loop around the houses (or at least around the roads) to get to Greville Smyth any way other than my normal...
Clifton Village: Jesus and the Tympanum
12 November 2020, 12:29 to 13:20
Sector: 
NE
NE
29 images
My goal is walk down every public road within a mile of me; sometimes it's not easy to tell what's public. I've passed the turning for Cornwallis Grove a thousand times, but never had a reason to venture down it, and although the street signs at the end seem to be council-deployed and I didn't spot...
Doors and walls, closed paths and chalk
11 November 2020, 13:14 to 14:02
Sector: SE
SE
16 images
I'd love to walk the Chocolate Path again at some point, but it's been closed since it started falling into the river. Still, on this wander to get a coffee I walked down a road I'd not normally use and found a door dressed up as a wall and another door that had been bricked up for real. Odd.
I also...
Plimsoll Bridge Swing
10 November 2020, 12:53 to 13:53
Sector: SE
SE
32 images
I went to grab a coffee from Imagine That's little horsebox by the marina, completely forgetting that they don't open on Monday or Tuesday. On the plus side, on the way back I was in time to watch the Plimsoll Bridge swinging for a tidy little yacht.
Little Clifton Village Details
9 November 2020, 12:24 to 13:04
Sector: N
N
29 images
I like The Paragon as a terrace, especially the bowed porches. On the other side of the road, a house attic has a stone lion surrounded by rocaille leaves, according to its listing.
I also love the detail of the arrows in the wrought iron of The Mall's balconies. Today I discovered Westfield place,...
Very Local
6 November 2020, 12:21 to 13:10
Sector: SE
SE
23 images
It's surprisingly easy to overlook the giant Wesleyan Grenville Chapel—now converted into flats—if you've lived here a while. Other sights that seem to slip from my memory include the modest Ashton Avenue, a tidy terrace of little houses on a road that presumably gave its name to the Ashton Avenue bridge....
Morning Mist
5 November 2020, 07:17 to 08:40
Sector: 
NW
NW
65 images
I spotted the fog and decided to go for a morning walk rather than a lunchtime walk today. It was cold on the Portway, but it was worth it. Most of my One Mile Matt photos are "record shots", but it's nice to get the chance to do something a bit more artistic.
Baltic Wharf and Marina
4 November 2020, 12:07 to 13:02
Sector: SE
SE
31 images
You never know what you'll find when you go for a walk in Bristol. This gorgeous Mustang was in the Marina car park. Nice. I also surprised myself by getting a good photo of The Hand (to give it its full title, Green Hand of a River God, by Vincent Woropay. Thanks, @mfimage!)
Local
3 November 2020, 12:24 to 13:14
Sector: SE
SE
32 images
A very local exploration today, but there are still bits of the near field that I never need to walk down, so it didn't take me long to find somewhere I haven't been in a decade or more, the little enclave of smaller Victorian houses around Oldfield Road and Sandford Road. I'd really like to live in...
Royal York Crescent
2 November 2020, 12:37 to 13:08
Sector: N
N
7 images
I've taken a lot of photos of Royal York Crescent over the years. This time I walked right to the dead-end bit at the far west corner and found a plaque to the Empress of the French. Call me hard to impress, but among the scientists, novelists, architects and artists whose plaques litter the rest of...
Outside the Zone
1 November 2020, 10:51 to 15:19
Sector: 
W
W
46 images
This started as a little local walk with my friend Lisa, but when we randomly met my friends Sarah and Vik at Ashton Court, turned into joining them for a very long wander out to Abbots Leigh Pool. Most of this was well outside my one-mile radius but it was a lovely walk.
Bedminster
31 October 2020, 13:40 to 15:28
Sector: SE
SE
16 images
Starting up close in Hotwells with a few bits around the Cumberland Basin flyover system, I walked to Bedminster and back on Hallowe'en, including finding some excellent decoration work.
Misty Walk
30 October 2020, 12:12 to 13:11
Sector: S
S
11 images
Something of a misty start took me around the viewpoint at the end of Spike Island and then on to try to find a new way into Greville Smyth Park. I got lost.