All Wanders
A Random New Year's Day Wander
1 January 2022, 13:10 to 15:57
Sector: 
SW
SW
39 images
I picked a fairly arbitrary reason for a wander today. Really, I just wanted to do a New Year's Day wander just to get out of the house and to set a precedent for the year to come.
My ostensible reason was to investigate what looked like a road on my map that quartered the lawn in front of the Ashton...
The Downs, Observatory Hill, and the Sounds of the Zoo
2 April 2021, 18:21 to 20:16
Sector: 
NW
NW
33 images
I noticed I'd missed a bit of Circular Road and Ladies Mile, and it was a nice evening for a sunset wander up to Clifton. There was something I recorded along the way, not photographically but in video.
Bristol Zoo, the world's oldest provincial zoo, has recently decided to close its Clifton site...
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...
A Morning of Research and a Cafe in a Castle
25 September 2021, 09:49 to 15:52
Sector: E
E
25 images
I needed to pop to the library, as they'd kindly dug a book out of the reserve store at the B Bond warehouse for me and emailed me to let me know it was ready. So, I took a little trip to town, straight down the Hotwell Road, and spent a few hours reading before stretching my legs with a walk to a new...
Greville Smyth Path Completionism
2 February 2021, 12:09 to 12:57
Sector: 
S
S
16 images
I needed to get away from my desk at lunchtime, and I saw a little segment of path in Greville Smyth Park that needed knocking off my "to walk down" list, so that gave me a target. Sadly Hopper Coffee's little Piaggio Ape wasn't there to sell me a coffee. I hope Rich is all right, not seen him so far...
Bedminster Trip for New Walking Shoes
26 February 2022, 12:15 to 14:40
Sector: 
SE
SE
57 images
I needed to buy new walking shoes—my old ones were squeaking and it was driving me up the wall—so I ordered some for collection from Taunton Leisure on East Street in Bedminster, and decided to make picking them up an official wander.
I didn't cover any new ground within my mile, but I did take advantage...
Bedminster Trip, with a Little Historic Diversion
20 March 2022, 12:09 to 16:50
Sector: SE
SE
29 images
I mostly went out to hang out with my friends Sarah and Vik in Bedminster, but along the way I thought I'd take a closer look at something a little nearer home: the last crossing point of the Rownham Ferry.
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)...
Soldiery, University, Theosophy, and Berkeley Square
30 May 2021, 14:21 to 16:52
Sector: 
NE
NE
58 images
I managed to knock off a reasonable chunk of the roads I had left to walk around the University at the north-eastern extremity of my mile on this nice sunny walk. As well as being impressed by the number of big townhouses now occupied by various departments, I took some time on my way there to check...
Ticking Off a Pocket of Paths in Leigh Woods
3 June 2022, 11:08 to 14:07
Sector: 
W
W
30 images
I managed to go for a wander a while ago that was meant to finish off a little tangle of paths in Leigh Woods, or at the very least finish off my wandering of the Purple Path there. And I managed to miss doing either of those things through some kind of navigational incompetence.
Today I woke up with...
Cliftonwood and a Secret Garden
3 December 2020, 12:12 to 13:01
Sector: E
E
55 images
I love the isolation of Cliftonwood -- the geography of it, with its solid boundary of Clifton Vale to the west and Jacob's Wells Road to the east mean that you tend not to be in Cliftonwood unless you've got a reason to be there. It's not a cut-through to anywhere, at least not from side-to-side, and...
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,...
Jacob's Well Wander
1 February 2021, 12:21 to 13:03
Sector: E
E
33 images
I just wanted to get some exercise, really, so I set out to knock off the lower bit of Jacobs Wells Road that I'd not managed to walk up yet. I set the new signboard that the community association had had erected as my destination, after reading about it on their blog.
As it turned out, I couldn't...
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...
Unexpected Snow
31 January 2021, 13:03 to 13:28
Sector: W
W
16 images
I just nipped out to post a blood test (not Covid-related) and check that my car was okay, because I've not driven it for weeks. I was just going to walk up to Clifton Village, but I spotted the opportunity to re-park the car on my street rather than up the hill around the corner where it was, so instead...
The Britannia Buildings, a then-and-now Trinity, and a Bedminster Stroll
7 March 2021, 14:35 to 15:25
Sector: SE
SE
39 images
I headed to Bedminster to do a crossword with my support bubble today. On the way I delved into a couple of bits of Hotwells history, first of all snapping a "now" shot to go with a historical photo of Holy Trinity I happened across recently, and second of all to snap the Britannia Buildings.
The Britannia...
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.
Leigh Woods Solo
19 June 2021, 11:26 to 13:47
Sector: W
W
53 images
I hadn't really planned to go out for a wander yesterday; I just got the urge and thought "why not?" (Well, the weather forecast was one possible reason, but I managed to avoid the rain, luckily.)
I wanted to finish off the A369—as it turns out I may still have a small section to go, but I've now walked...
Ten O'Clock Shop and Can't Dance Coffee
30 November 2020, 12:53 to 13:40
Sector: NE
NE
32 images
I had to return a faulty AirPod Pro to Apple (there's a first-world problem!) so I just took a quick trip up the hill to the nearest UPS drop-off point, The Ten O'Clock Shop, which is famously open until 11pm. Unfortunately it's a fairly cramped little place and neither of the staff were wearing masks,...
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...