All Wanders
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.
Jaunt to a Closed Coffee Shop
17 November 2020, 12:07 to 12:54
Sector: E
E
48 images
A fruitless wander, as Spoke and Stringer (who I thought might do a decent flat white) were closed, and the only other harbourside inlet offering were a bit too busy to wait at, especially as I'd spent some time wandering some of the convolutions of Rownham Mead. This last congeries of dull alleyways...
Computer Game Puzzles and the Way to Greville Smyth
18 November 2020, 12:14 to 13:01
Sector: 
S
S
27 images
In which our intrepid hero levels up.
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.
Clifton Village Mini Wander
20 November 2020, 12:24 to 13:12
Sector: 
NE
NE
35 images
Just a quick wander up the hill to get a flat white from Twelve. I really enjoyed the spooky mannequin (?) in the window.
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...
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.
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...
Clifton Hill
23 November 2020, 12:09 to 12:45
Sector: E
E
36 images
I've just got to the bit in Fanny Burney's Evelina where our eponymous heroine visit a grand house on Clifton Hill during her stay in Hotwells. It was interesting to wonder if it could be any of the places I passed in my lunchtime jaunt, which took in both Clifton Hill and Lower Clifton Hill.
From...
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.
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
Avoiding the Accounts
26 November 2020, 10:26 to 12:11
Sector: NE
NE
85 images
I took the day off my day job to do my accounts—or at least do enough bookkeeping to send them to my accountant. I hate doing the books. I woke up late, tired and with a headache and decided to bunk off for a walk around Cliftonwood, Clifton Village and Clifton instead, taking in a couple of good coffees...
The Long Lunchtime at the End of the World
27 November 2020, 12:38 to 14:23
Sector: E
E
59 images
I took an extra-long break at lunchtime today as I'd taken the day off my normal day-job to do the accounts for my previous side-job, which is still generating paperwork, though not much in the way of money. This took me through some undiscovered bits of Cliftonwood, including Worlds End Lane, which...
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.
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,...
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...
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.
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...
Strangers' Burial Ground
4 December 2020, 11:58 to 12:55
Sector: NE
NE
41 images
I tried to find the Strangers' Burial Ground the last time was up in Clifton, but I'd not realised that Lower Clifton Hill continues further on after the turning with Constitution Hill. Sadly it was chained shut, but it still looks beautifully-maintained, perhaps by the same man referenced by this story...
More Cliftonwood
5 December 2020, 11:38 to 13:06
Sector: E
E
100 images
Back to Cliftonwood for a wander that included some of the belle views of Bellevue Crescent and other bits of the easternmost part. Highlights included watching someone bump-starting an elderly Nissan Micra in the narrow confines of Bellevue Crescent.