All Wanders
The Gridiron and Bower Ashton Part Two
3 December 2021, 11:32 to 13:19
Sector: 
S
S
38 images
On my last wander, to Bower Ashton, I was intending to knock Blackmoors Lane off my list "to-do" list, but got a bit diverted. I also took a little look into the history of the Gridiron, once a cheaper alternative to dry dock that was nestled just south of North Entrance Lock.
Today I had to go to...
A Door, a Square, a Few Night Shots
4 December 2021, 14:30 to 20:10
Sector: 
SE
SE
24 images
I didn't take many pictures on this quite long wander, partly because Lisa and I wandered across to Bedminster via Bower Ashton, which I've snapped quite a lot of on the last couple of walks, and also because we lost the light fairly quickly, though spending a half-hour drinking mulled wine in the Ashton...
A Water-Based Wander
11 December 2021, 11:04 to 12:28
Sector: 
E
E
29 images
I woke up on this Saturday with a headache, feeling like I'd not slept at all. As well as that, I'm still in some pain from the wisdom tooth extraction I had a few weeks ago. I moped about the flat for a while and then decided that the best thing to do was to force myself out on at least a small walk...
A Flyover Before and After, but Mostly Paddling Santas
12 December 2021, 12:33 to 16:02
Sector: SE
SE
42 images
My friend Lisa texted me to see if I wanted to pop down and take a photo or two of the event she was taking part in: Santa SUP. SUP Bristol organise stand-up paddleboarding on the floating harbour, and their annual Santas-on-paddlboards event is quite the sight.
On the way there, I grabbed a historical...
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...
An Industrial Wander Through Ashton to Find a View
28 December 2021, 13:21 to 16:01
Sector: S
S
45 images
I was just about starting to feel better—the antibiotics seemed to have kicked in for my dental issues, and it had been some days since I'd left the house, and I was at last starting to get itchy feet. So, a wander. But where? Well, there were a few industrial bits near Winterstoke Road in the Ashton/Ashton...
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...
Near and Far
5 January 2022, 12:04 to 12:51
Sector: 
N
N
13 images
I took advantage of a rare recent day where it wasn't tipping down with rain to get away from my desk on a lunchtime workday and head up to Clifton Village. I'd hoped to snap a reproduction of historical photo which I'd worked out had been taken from the Suspension Bridge, but the gods were not smiling...
Quick Clifton Jaunt Finishing with Southville
9 January 2022, 11:35 to 13:49
Sector: E
E
6 images
It's been pretty dismal recently, weather-wise, so when Sarah called up to say that she and Vik had just left the swimming pool at the student union building up in Clifton, and would I like to join them for a trip to the Last Bookshop, also known as The £3 Bookshop, for reasons you can probably deduce,...
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...
Lunchtime Cliftonwood Wander
18 January 2022, 12:22 to 13:12
Sector: E
E
19 images
Another workday, another quick lunchtime trip to get me out of the house. This time my flimsy pretext is a tiny bit of Clifton Vale Close that I'd apparently not walked, and the fact that although I'd walked down Church Lane at least once before I still hadn't taken a single photo of it. Really I just...
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...
In Which We Begin and End with Love
5 March 2022, 13:00 to 15:08
Sector: E
E
20 images
I had a lot to get done around the house, so as soon as I heard there might be a shiny new piece of street art near me, under the Cumberland Basin flyovers, I immediately decided that was all the excuse I needed to set off on a round-the-harbour lunchtime walk to get some fresh air and see if I could...
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...
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.
A Coffee and a Curve
27 March 2022, 12:55 to 14:31
Sector: SE
SE
17 images
I wanted to have a wander along to the Tobacco Factory Market for some shopping, and checking the map for any leftover nearby streets I noticed a tiny curve of road on the way into the modern flats at Paxton Drive that it didn't look like I'd walked down before. I wouldn't take me too far out of my...
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...
Easter Monday Gardens and Flowers
18 April 2022, 11:24 to 13:29
Sector: 
NE
NE
48 images
I didn't really set out with a theme of flowers and gardens in mind for this walk. I just fancied heading up to Clifton Village to get lunch. As it turned out, though, Spring was springing, so a minor theme emerged as I started off with the graveyard flowers of Hope Chapel and wandered up to see the...
A Swing of the Plimsoll Bridge
24 April 2022, 11:43 to 13:41
Sector: SE
SE
23 images
I was originally going to head over to the Ashton area to see if I'd missed any bits around the football stadium—and also to grab some lunch from the Tobacco Factory Market—but in the end I got a little distracted by having accidentally chosen exactly the right time to see the Plimsoll Bridge swing...
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...