All Wanders
Another Day, Another 50 Metres
29 May 2021, 14:37 to 15:35
Sector: 
S
S
8 images
I met my friends Sarah and Vik at Riverside Garden Centre today; I needed to buy some compost for repotting my wildly-overgrowing aloe vera, and I went a little bit out of my way to knock off a stretch of Ashton Road. It was a pleasant enough walk in the surprisingly warm (and surprising-not-tipping-it-down-on-a-Bank-Holiday-weekend)...
Desultory Coffee Wander
16 April 2021, 12:12 to 12:59
Sector: S
S
8 images
Another day, another quick dash out for a coffee. I did at least try to take a different route from normal, especially on the way back, where I yet again got a bit lost in the strange paths, flyovers and underpasses that make up the odd maze of pedestrian "infrastructure" among the concrete jungle between...
Clifton Down Dash
2 March 2021, 12:23 to 12:59
Sector: 
N
N
8 images
A quick wander up to Clifton Village to wander down a path or two either around Observatory Road that I'd missed out previously. On the way around I took a moment to take in the incongruous 11 Windsor Terrace, smiled at a couple of mounted police, stopped to smell the crocuses, grabbed a coffee in Foliage...
Another Lunchtime, Another Quick Coffee Trip
28 January 2021, 12:19 to 13:10
Sector: 
SE
SE
8 images
With very little photography, and no new streets. Still, I did manage to buy milk at the "Simple Cow" vending machine—and "simple" is very definitely false advertising; it took me bloody ages to work out how to use the thing—and snap the new ACER/SEPR piece down in Cumberland Piazza.
Clifton Village Lunchtime Coffee
7 April 2021, 12:02 to 12:43
Sector: N
N
9 images
Unusually for my recent lunchtime coffee trips, I managed to find a new road to walk down: Caledonia Mews, which has a little entrance off Princess Victoria Street and runs between it and Caledonia Place. I've noticed it before a couple of times—if you look up from Princess Victoria Street you can see...
Hotwells Evening
29 March 2021, 19:04 to 20:28
Sector: SE
SE
9 images
Just a little potter around Hotwells with Sarah and Vik. I didn't visit any new streets, but I liked a couple of the photos a lot.
Downs Wander
23 February 2021, 12:34 to 13:07
Sector: N
N
9 images
Just a quick trip to knock off a path or two on Clifton Down. I'm not actually convinced I walked down the paths I was hoping to, but I suppose I'll see once I upload this and look at it on the map :)
Today's highlight turned out to be retrospective—looking up Gertrude Hermes' amazing wood engravings...
Picture Postcards, Bikers and Wild Food
25 February 2021, 12:36 to 13:34
Sector: SE
SE
10 images
I almost didn't bother bringing out my GPS today, but as it turned out I may have knocked off a tiny bit of Baltic Wharf, having been diverted through there on my way back from Imagine That café by finding Cumberland Road closed. Not sure whether it was just some kind of delivery to the roadworks there...
Autonomous Vehicle
14 July 2021, 12:06 to 12:51
Sector: SE
SE
11 images
As it turned out, I didn't manage to get a coffee on my lunchtime coffee trip, as Imagine That were briefly shut down by a Covid-19 exposure notification (false alarm, it seems.) On the plus side, my trip was made worthwhile by spotting a couple of people from the University of Bath Mechanical Engineering...
Coffee Run
31 March 2021, 12:06 to 12:43
Sector: S
S
11 images
Not a literal run, but I didn't hang about, as I had a job interview to get to (I was an interviewer, not the interviewee, but you still have to be there on time...) Along the way to pick up a lunchtime coffee I mostly seemed to take photos of the high tide, though I also came across a bit of outreach...
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.
Nipping Up the Zig Zag to the Shops
19 August 2023, 11:05 to 11:58
Sector: 
NW
NW
12 images
It's been a long while since I did one of these walks.
I'm thinking of finishing up the project by walking one or two last bits of road, thus being able to declare with all honesty that I've done my best to walk every public road within my mile (and quite a few alleyways besides.) As a prelude, and...
Recreating a Loxton Drawing on a Lunchtime Jaunt
5 November 2021, 12:35 to 13:30
Sector: 
NE
NE
12 images
I did do a much longer wander earlier in the week, but that'll take me some time to process (and cast a plethora of photos into the "out-takes" pile!) In the meantime, here's my lunchtime jaunt, taken to give myself a break from doing the company bookkeeping to send to my accountant so the taxman doesn't...
Howard's Lock
27 April 2021, 12:12 to 12:59
Sector: S
S
12 images
Bits of Entrance Lock have been coned off for ages, mostly the area with the lockkeepers' house on it. My friends Sarah and Vik mentioned at the weekend that it had recently been un-coned, so I wandered that way to cross the outermost lockgates for the first time this year. I don't know whether it's...
Near and Far
5 January 2022, 12:04 to 12:51
Sector: N
N
13 images
I took advantage of a rare recent day where it wasn't tipping down with rain to get away from my desk on a lunchtime workday and head up to Clifton Village. I'd hoped to snap a reproduction of historical photo which I'd worked out had been taken from the Suspension Bridge, but the gods were not smiling...
Coffee, Coronation and Clift House Road
28 May 2021, 12:23 to 13:04
Sector: S
S
13 images
Another dash to Greville Smyth Park for a coffee from Rich at Hopper, but at least this time I managed to divert a bit and knock off a small section of Cumberland Road I'd managed to miss on previous excursions. Along the way I muse on a strange residence in between a warehouse and a tannery, and wonder...
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...
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.
Coffee, Pirates and a Spitfire
15 April 2021, 12:47 to 13:40
Sector: SE
SE
14 images
Just a quick trip to Imagine That for a flat white and a date ball (they're really nice), snapping the general sights along the way. No new roads, as has rapidly become the default on my lunchtime wanders, but as I'm in the routine of this project it almost seems strange not to pop my wanders up on...
(Photographic Lack of) Worcester Terrace
9 February 2021, 12:10 to 12:58
Sector: NE
NE
14 images
A nice walk, but something of a failure, photographically. I went to knock Worcester Terrace off my list, a not dissimilar terrace to Vyvyan Terrace, but one street further away from me. Like yesterday, it was very chilly but this time I went prepared with an extra layer and a winter coat. I think this...