All Wanders
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...
A Door, a Square, a Few Night Shots
4 December 2021, 14:30 to 20:10
Sector: 
SE
SE
24 images
I didn't take many pictures on this quite long wander, partly because Lisa and I wandered across to Bedminster via Bower Ashton, which I've snapped quite a lot of on the last couple of walks, and also because we lost the light fairly quickly, though spending a half-hour drinking mulled wine in the Ashton...
A Trip to the Library
8 June 2021, 17:19 to 18:54
Sector: 
E
E
24 images
I had to return a book to the library—Ellic Howe's Magicians of the Golden Dawn, very interesting, thanks for asking—so I decided to pick the Central Library as my drop-off point and walk down a segment of Deanery Road that I've surprisingly overlooked so far. In any normal time I'd have been walking...
Whistle Stop Tour Via a Hansom
12 May 2021, 12:18 to 13:05
Sector: 
NE
NE
24 images
I wanted to take another snap of an interesting Gothic Revival place in Clifton, having found out a bit more about the owner. On the way I walked through the Clifton Vale Close estate, idly wondering again whether it might've been the site of Bristol's Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens (I've not researched...
Gardens and Cottages
17 December 2020, 12:30 to 13:29
Sector: NE
NE
24 images
I think the cute little Duncan Cottage was my favourite bit of this wander up the hill to get coffee and a pain-au-raisin from Twelve, though I did enjoy gently musing on the public and private gardens of Clifton, inspired by a closer pass than usual to Royal York Crescent's garden.
I managed absent-mindedly...
A Swing of the Plimsoll Bridge
24 April 2022, 11:43 to 13:41
Sector: SE
SE
23 images
I was originally going to head over to the Ashton area to see if I'd missed any bits around the football stadium—and also to grab some lunch from the Tobacco Factory Market—but in the end I got a little distracted by having accidentally chosen exactly the right time to see the Plimsoll Bridge swing...
Oddities in Alleyways and a Lost Pub of the Hotwell Road
9 April 2022, 12:12 to 13:32
Sector: E
E
23 images
I noticed I had a few things on my "potential wanders" list that could all be done relatively close to home, and in a fairly straight line, so I set off at lunchtime to recreate a photo of a now-defunct pub, wander behind a Spar (which turned out to be more interesting than I'd expected, but I admit...
Pastures New!
17 July 2021, 12:48 to 15:39
Sector: SE
SE
23 images
Okay, not much in the way of actual pasture to be had in Bedminster these days, like most of Bristol, but I did take advantage of the current rather toasty weather in Bristol to go and sit under a tree in Greville Smyth Park to read a book for a while before firing up the GPS and taking a little detour...
Piazza Glyphs, Seagulls, and the Dual Nature of Dowry Parade
12 February 2021, 12:45 to 13:39
Sector: SE
SE
23 images
Another day, another coffee. I think I may have knocked a tiny footpath in Baltic Wharf from my list of leftover paths in the area, but mostly this walk was about getting out into the crisp February cold and enjoying the walk. On the way I posted a letter at 13 Dowry Parade (home of a surgeon called...
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....
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...
Docks Heritage Weekend Day One
9 October 2021, 12:47 to 15:47
Sector: E
E
21 images
I could spend a lot of time at the Docks Heritage Weekend, poking my nose into industrial places along the harbourside that are usually closed off, but throw open their doors once a year to show off a bit of the backstage area of Bristol's floating harbour. In fact, I warn you: the next wander is a...
Mostly the Metal Animals of a Clifton Garden
30 August 2021, 13:27 to 16:55
Sector: NE
NE
21 images
Lisa and I went for a longish walk, but I didn't take many photos. Mostly we just wandered and nattered. Unusually, my target was outside my 1-mile radius on Burlington Road in Redland, where I snapped quite a few photos of the collection of artistic animals by Julian Warren. This was mostly to provide...
Swinging By Sydney Row
1 April 2021, 12:09 to 12:57
Sector: SE
SE
21 images
Another workday, another quick coffee excursion. This time I decided to swing past Sydney Row on the way back from the marina car park where Imagine That have their horsebox. I didn't know until recently that the terrace was built for workers at the adjacent dockyard.
I've also gradually come to the...
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.
In Which We Begin and End with Love
5 March 2022, 13:00 to 15:08
Sector: E
E
20 images
I had a lot to get done around the house, so as soon as I heard there might be a shiny new piece of street art near me, under the Cumberland Basin flyovers, I immediately decided that was all the excuse I needed to set off on a round-the-harbour lunchtime walk to get some fresh air and see if I could...
Quick Around-the-Harbour Wander with Lisa
20 March 2021, 10:08 to 11:49
Sector: E
E
20 images
My friend Lisa was meeting another friend for a walk near the suspension bridge, so we fitted in a quick harbourside loop from my place first. We discussed gardening (we're both envious of the gardening skills of the Pooles Wharf residents; we can just about keep herbs alive, whereas they're growing...
Lunchtime Cliftonwood Wander
18 January 2022, 12:22 to 13:12
Sector: E
E
19 images
Another workday, another quick lunchtime trip to get me out of the house. This time my flimsy pretext is a tiny bit of Clifton Vale Close that I'd apparently not walked, and the fact that although I'd walked down Church Lane at least once before I still hadn't taken a single photo of it. Really I just...
Bocye's Avenue Windows
19 May 2021, 12:14 to 12:46
Sector: NE
NE
19 images
I just nipped up to Clifton Village to get a coffee, though I did manage to walk down a little alleyway I'd not really noticed before. Or perhaps I had noticed it and it looked private, but today I felt like wandering up its twenty or so feet anyway... The reflections in the shop windows on Boyce's...
Better Look at an Extension
14 April 2021, 12:02 to 12:54
Sector: 
NW
NW
19 images
Apart from a lovely coffee and a slice of Victoria sponge from Twelve, there weren't any new sights on this little lunchtime jaunt except for a slightly better look at the long raised extension at the back of the St Vincent's Rocks Hotel, where I at least got to see the arches it's raised up on. I also...