All Wanders
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...
Of Bridges and Buoys
4 March 2021, 12:05 to 12:53
Sector: 
SE
SE
17 images
A trip to Imagine That coffee, so no fresh roads knocked off my list, but I stopped off to snap a couple of the engineering-related bits of the docks: the Campbell Buoy (used by P&A Campbell for mooring their paddle steamers) and Brunel's "other" bridge, the foot/horse swing bridge that now sits sadly...
Quick Coffee
19 November 2020, 13:18 to 14:10
Sector: SE
SE
28 images
A sunny day, and though I should have probably headed for less well-travelled territory I just headed over to the Marina to grab a flat white from Imagine That's horsebox café.
Lunchtime Zig Zag Climb
13 July 2021, 12:04 to 12:49
Sector: 
NW
NW
8 images
A snappy little trip up the Zig Zag to the shops. It's a steep old route, the Zig Zag, going from just over river level to about the height of the suspension bridge (101 metres) in a compact switchback of a footpath.
I was too busy struggling to breathe to take many snaps of the actual Zig Zag (I've...
Bedmo and Ashton Court
21 November 2020, 11:43 to 15:22
Sector: 
SW
SW
126 images
A rather more wide-ranging weekend wander with Sarah and Vik, taking in some mock Tudor bits of Bedmo (I should note that I've subsequently been corrected to "Bemmie", but I'm an outsider and have been calling it "Bedmo" for short for decades...), a chunk of Ashton, a path up Rownham Hill called Dead...
Northern Clifton
16 January 2021, 15:00 to 17:12
Sector: 
NE
NE
72 images
A raggedy wander with my friend Lisa, picking up a few stray streets and venturing only briefly onto Whiteladies Road, where it was too damn busy, given the current pandemic. We retreated fairly quickly. Found a couple of interesting back alleys, and got a very pointed "can I help you?" from a man who...
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...
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...
Dowry Square Jaunt
16 November 2020, 12:21 to 12:47
Sector: 
E
E
26 images
A quick lunchtime jaunt to Dowry Square, which is very close to me but, being effectively a cul-de-sac as well as a square, I've probably only circumnavigated a couple of times in the last couple of decades.
Shiny New Hope
24 September 2021, 12:48 to 13:26
Sector: N
N
5 images
A quick lunchtime jaunt to Clifton Village. Along the way I admired the new sign on Hope Chapel and added to my tsundoku collection.
Underpass
25 November 2020, 12:05 to 12:52
Sector: SE
SE
17 images
A quick lunchtime jaunt for coffee. I've often wondered about the dots on the wall of the underpass. Apparently they're not intelligible Braille. Maybe it's Marain :D
Birthday Coffee
21 January 2021, 12:06 to 12:37
Sector: N
N
7 images
A quick jaunt to Clifton Village to grab a birthday coffee and cake (courgette, lime & pistachio, thanks for asking) from Twelve, and rubberneck at the demolition of the block that used to house the WH Smith, among other things. I remember the Havana Cafe, Mail Boxes Etc (for those who wanted a Clifton...
Bank Holiday Street Art
31 May 2021, 13:05 to 14:22
Sector: S
S
17 images
A nice warm Bank Holiday Monday saw me walk back over to Bedminster to do justice to something we glimpsed on my last wander. Along the way I spotted a couple of new pieces of street art tucked away on the south side of the Cumberland Basin Flyover system, so this turned into a micro-graffiti walk.
(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...
Coming Home in the Dark
19 December 2020, 17:48 to 18:40
Sector: SE
SE
7 images
A nice walk home in the dark early evening—we're only a couple of days away from the winter solstice—found me getting a bit lost in Southville as I tried to knock a few new streets of my list. Happily getting lost in Southville at this time of year is in no way unpleasant, and just lets you look at...
In Between
6 February 2021, 11:17 to 13:55
Sector: E
E
141 images
A lovely walk in the early spring sunshine with my friend Lisa. We headed directly for Jacobs Wells Road, to start off around the scene of one of our earlier walks, but this time took in Jacobs Wells from QEH upward, stopping to snap some photos of a Bear With Me, some interesting areas between Park...
Rainy Clifton
13 December 2020, 10:04 to 13:00
Sector: NE
NE
92 images
A long walk around Cliftonwood and Clifton with my friend Lisa, taking in some of the 12 Days of Christmas display at Queens Parade, picking up a take-away coffee from Pinkmans of Park Street, and poking our heads up against the glass of SS Peter and Paul Catholic Cathedral.
The Hot Well, Avon Gorge, Downs and Clifton with Sarah and Vik
28 November 2020, 11:04 to 14:38
Sector: NW
NW
94 images
A long ramble, starting with trying to find the Hot Well of Hotwells and leading up the side of the Avon Gorge to the Downs and then through Clifton for coffee.
Sunday Bedmo
20 December 2020, 12:24 to 14:28
Sector: SE
SE
76 images
A long meander around bits of Bedminster, from the river to the north to Winterstoke Road to the south, taking a few roads I've seen before, and a few I haven't. The Christmas decorations were an extra bonus.
Hotwells and Clifton/Clifton Village
14 November 2020, 11:31 to 13:37
Sector: N
N
40 images
A local walk with my friend Lisa in tow, including a coffee from the cafe in the Clifton Observatory, where I have fond memories of experiencing my first camera obscura, and cake from Twelve in Clifton Village, one of my favourite recent finds for both food and flat whites.