All Wanders
Meridian
17 February 2021, 12:33 to 13:12
Sector: 
E
E
32 images
The long road between Clifton Road and Park Place—the little triangle of grass in front of the Pro-Cathedral, which also houses Quinton House pub, the Park Launderette and Mr Swantons Barbers—is one I've travelled a lot, as it's a nice route between my place and the top of Park Street, especially Ocado....
Cliftonwood and Clifton Village Lunchtime Stroll
14 December 2020, 12:13 to 12:53
Sector: E
E
17 images
The lunchtime walk has been feeling a bit of a chore lately, especially as I only have an hour and have to keep a mental watch out for my "bingo" point or risk being late back. Today I went for a deliberately brief local walk and got home in time to have lunch on my sofa rather than while I was back...
A Long Bristol Port Railway-Inspired Walk from Hotwells Station through Walcombe Slade to Clifton Down
4 November 2021, 09:32 to 13:20
Sector: 
N
N
67 images
The more I research it, the more I find that Hotwells had far better transport links back in Victorian and Edwardian times than it has today. Along with buses that went to more useful places than the City Centre, there were trams, the funicular up to Clifton, the landing stage for paddle steamer services...
Harbourside Milestone
17 March 2021, 17:28 to 19:18
Sector: E
E
69 images
The other day I realised (hello, Maggie!) that my next walk would be my hundredth, and that I'd done 393.4km so far. I figured it would be nice to get to 100 walks and 400km on the same walk, so I went for a nice long harbourside wander after work, rather than dashing out at lunchtime. As it turned...
A Constitutional to Burwalls and Back
21 December 2021, 13:19 to 15:05
Sector: 
W
W
28 images
The recent lack of posts here is mostly due to my feeling very run down following having a couple of wisdom teeth extracted. Having had an emergency appointment yesterday1, hopefully I'll be on the mend now, though it does mean I'm on the kind of antibiotics where you can't touch alcohol for the whole...
A Longer-than-it-looks Walk With Lisa
6 June 2021, 11:59 to 13:16
Sector: E
E
65 images
The track on the map doesn't tell the whole story of this walk with Lisa around and about Clifton, Berkeley Square, Brandon Hill and the harbourside, because the batteries on my GPS ran out while we were on the roof of Trenchard Street car park, it seems. Oh well. I think I did most of the area I was...
Ticking Off a Few Streets in Bedminster
31 October 2021, 12:29 to 14:14
Sector: 
SE
SE
30 images
There were only a few streets left to wander in the more residential bit of Bedminster, so I thought I should target those today. The streets themselves weren't that notable, though Balfour Road has a contrasting mix of old and new housing. I tried to snap a few more interesting things along the way...
A London Wander in Southville
10 April 2021, 13:37 to 16:18
Sector: E
E
102 images
There's a bit of Southville that I've been meaning to get to for some time, where the streets seem to take some strong inspiration from London. There's a Camden Road that crosses with an Islington Road, and a Dalston Road, even an Edgeware Road. For me these names are more evocative than the rather...
Little Victories
16 February 2021, 12:15 to 13:15
Sector: E
E
16 images
There's a dearth of my favourite coffee places on a Monday and Tuesday at the moment. Both Twelve and Imagine That are closed on Monday and Tuesday, and Rich from Hopper Coffee doesn't seem to have come back from Christmas break. Today I pushed on a bit further than normal around the harbour and got...
Leigh Woods Purple Path
12 March 2022, 09:12 to 12:40
Sector: 
NW
NW
32 images
There's a few tracks in Leigh Woods that lie within my mile and show up on my map but that I've not walked yet, so I decided to take one of my traditional big long walks through the woods on this nice crisp sunny morning.
For years—decades, even—I've been doing a similar route from my place, along...
Catherine Progress
29 October 2020, 12:52 to 13:38
Sector: SE
SE
4 images
They're refurbishing (by which they seem to mean ripping almost completely apart and rebuilding) the Catherine in Underfall Yard at the moment. I like checking on the progress when I pass by the Patent Slip.
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.
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.
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.
A Long Wander Of Miscellany and Magick
8 August 2021, 12:11 to 17:16
Sector: E
E
44 images
This was a wide-ranging wander. I started off crossing the river to Bedminster, to walk a single little cul-de-sac, Hardy Avenue, that I'd managed to miss on at least one previous walk. Then, pausing only to explore a few back alleyways, I headed for a few destinations related mostly by the Hughes family,...
Lunchtime Reproduction (of an old photo...)
17 January 2022, 12:25 to 13:24
Sector: NW
NW
15 images
This was basically the quick lunchtime jaunt I tried to do at the beginning of January, only this time I actually managed to get to roughly the viewpoint I'd been hoping for to recreate a historical photo of the Bristol International Exhibition.
I did this walk about a month ago, but I've been a bit...
Coffee and Graff
22 January 2021, 12:04 to 13:04
Sector: SE
SE
14 images
Took myself around the harbour to Imagine That's horsebox cafe and treated myself to a flat white and a sourdough cheese toastie. On the way there and back I encountered some local flooding and various bit of graffiti, from some ugly tagging on someone's front windows to a large new piece being added...
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...
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...
Photo-Free Bedmo Return
7 March 2021, 19:17 to 19:45
Sector: SE
SE
0 images
Unusually, a completely photo-free wander: by the time I'd done a couple of crosswords and played a board game with my friends, it was too dark to snap anything on the way back home from Bedminster. Still, I think I knocked at least one small section of Beggar Bush Lane off my map...