All Wanders
Clifton Village, including Oxford Place
15 February 2021, 12:07 to 12:56
Sector: 
NE
NE
42 images
I've noticed Oxford Place as a tiny little side/back road I've overlooked on my wanders a few times. Today I decided to pop down and have a look, as well as taking a few general snaps of Princess Victoria Street, which I thought deserved more pictures, as it's basically my closest decent shops, and...
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...
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....
Very Brief Hotwells Wander
18 February 2021, 12:14 to 12:37
Sector: 
SE
SE
15 images
Really just a quick loop of the Cumberland Basin. I was going to go further, and it was a nice early spring day, but I hadn't slept that well and I wasn't really in the mood. Ah well. Not every walk is great. At least I got out of the house for a bit.
The AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine, Clifton College Prep School, the Zoo and a Missing Bungalow
20 February 2021, 12:58 to 14:34
Sector: 
N
N
53 images
I went to get my first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine today. Handily, the vaccination centre was Clifton College Prep School in Northcote road, next to Bristol Zoo, a road that's just within my 1-mile range that I hadn't visited before.
I parked up near Ladies Mile and tried to find...
Downs Wander
23 February 2021, 12:34 to 13:07
Sector: N
N
9 images
Just a quick trip to knock off a path or two on Clifton Down. I'm not actually convinced I walked down the paths I was hoping to, but I suppose I'll see once I upload this and look at it on the map :)
Today's highlight turned out to be retrospective—looking up Gertrude Hermes' amazing wood engravings...
Picture Postcards, Bikers and Wild Food
25 February 2021, 12:36 to 13:34
Sector: SE
SE
10 images
I almost didn't bother bringing out my GPS today, but as it turned out I may have knocked off a tiny bit of Baltic Wharf, having been diverted through there on my way back from Imagine That café by finding Cumberland Road closed. Not sure whether it was just some kind of delivery to the roadworks there...
A Day Off Wander in Clifton
26 February 2021, 11:18 to 12:59
Sector: N
N
48 images
I'm on the first day of a long weekend, and I certainly picked the right one for it. This may be the first proper spring-like day of the year in Bristol; it was glorious.
I headed up to Clifton, around the area where I got my Covid vaccine jab the other day, to knock off a few remaining roads in that...
Portnalls Tunnel Explore and Sunny Clifton Wander
27 February 2021, 11:10 to 13:06
Sector: N
N
35 images
I'm glad my friend Lisa joined me today; she drove in from Shirehampton and told me that the Portway was looking rather lovely, so we set off that way. She's also braver than I am when it comes to doing urbex stuff, so this was just the opportunity to take a peek into the Portnalls Number One Railway...
Harbour Circumnavigation
1 March 2021, 13:13 to 15:04
Sector: E
E
102 images
Normally I don't have enough time in my lunch hour to get all the way around the harbourside. This is a shame, as Wapping Wharf is a great place to get coffee and a snack, but it's pretty much diametrically (perimetrically?) opposite me on the harbour. Today I had the day off, so I decided to go and...
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...
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 Postcard-Inspired Hotwells Pontoon/Landing Stage Trip
5 March 2021, 12:15 to 12:46
Sector: 
W
W
15 images
I bought a vintage post card from eBay this week. It's a well-known photo of the Hotwells landing stage, showing what's likely to be a P&A Campbell paddle steamer moored there. (Just yesterday I snapped a photo of their buoy on display at Underfall Yard with its information sign.) It was posted from...
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...
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...
In Which Our Hero Buys Something Random from eBay
9 March 2021, 12:49 to 13:41
Sector: 
S
S
17 images
Since setting up a search for Hotwells on eBay I've mostly managed to restrain myself from buying much (or in one case, was outbid, luckily for my finances.) However, I couldn't resist a 1902 flyer for a singalong at the Terrett Memorial Hall, which would have stood five minutes' walk from my flat,...
One Albermarle Row, Granby Green and... People
12 March 2021, 12:03 to 13:00
Sector: SE
SE
28 images
I was browsing some historical photos the other day, and came across "Rear of Unspecified House" in the Bristol Archives' John Trelawny Ross collection, and immediately recognised it as being the back of 1 Albermarle Row, just around the corner from me. I've not had much time to research the history...
Leigh Woods Walk
14 March 2021, 09:32 to 13:17
Sector: 
NW
NW
90 images
An enormous walk today, or at least it felt enormous. My feet are sore, anyway. I started off recreating a couple of local historical photos in Hotwells, but then headed for my traditional walk along the towpath in the Avon Gorge to the far extreme of Leigh Woods, up and through the woods to the height...
John Carr's Terrace
16 March 2021, 12:35 to 13:29
Sector: E
E
25 images
I wanted a nice simple lunch-hour walk that took me past a cafe today, and I managed to find the perfect road to knock off my list of targets to do it. Situated just off Jacobs Wells Road, right next to Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, John Carr's Terrace, and Rosebery terrace above it, which I'd completely...
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...