All Wanders
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!)
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.
A Little Local Wander
7 January 2021, 12:08 to 13:11
Sector: SE
SE
39 images
Which included a literal "local", the Pump House, to try out their shop/deli/cafe. A flat white, some apples and a New York Deli toastie. Eleven quid, mind, but the Pump House was never a cheap pub...
I enjoyed the fog, and wandering down a few more out-of-the-way back alleys and what-have-you on the...
Mirror Maze
10 January 2021, 11:25 to 13:54
Sector: 
NE
NE
108 images
Went for a wander with my friend Lisa—the current lockdown rules seem to be that one local walk for exercise per day with a maximum of one person not in one's "bubble" is fine—up to the University of Bristol area right at the edge of my one-mile perimeter to see the Jeppe Hein Mirror Maze, among other...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...