All Wanders
Coffee, Pirates and a Spitfire
15 April 2021, 12:47 to 13:40
Sector: 
SE
SE
14 images
Just a quick trip to Imagine That for a flat white and a date ball (they're really nice), snapping the general sights along the way. No new roads, as has rapidly become the default on my lunchtime wanders, but as I'm in the routine of this project it almost seems strange not to pop my wanders up on...
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...
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.
Desultory Coffee Wander
16 April 2021, 12:12 to 12:59
Sector: S
S
8 images
Another day, another quick dash out for a coffee. I did at least try to take a different route from normal, especially on the way back, where I yet again got a bit lost in the strange paths, flyovers and underpasses that make up the odd maze of pedestrian "infrastructure" among the concrete jungle between...
Docks Heritage Weekend Day One
9 October 2021, 12:47 to 15:47
Sector: 
E
E
21 images
I could spend a lot of time at the Docks Heritage Weekend, poking my nose into industrial places along the harbourside that are usually closed off, but throw open their doors once a year to show off a bit of the backstage area of Bristol's floating harbour. In fact, I warn you: the next wander is a...
Docks Heritage Weekend Day Two: Underfall Yard Substation, Hydraulics, and Bristol Electricity
10 October 2021, 11:36 to 13:12
Sector: SE
SE
70 images
I'm afraid that this is a bit of a badly-curated wander, where I mostly just popped out to find out a little of the history of Underfall Yard and poke around the various open workshops, and, in hindsight, really didn't take pictures in any kind of coherent order. So there's a lot of pictures, but they...
Doors and walls, closed paths and chalk
11 November 2020, 13:14 to 14:02
Sector: SE
SE
16 images
I'd love to walk the Chocolate Path again at some point, but it's been closed since it started falling into the river. Still, on this wander to get a coffee I walked down a road I'd not normally use and found a door dressed up as a wall and another door that had been bricked up for real. Odd.
I also...
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...
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.
Dowry Square, a Wander Through a Norman Arch, and a Martian House
24 July 2022, 11:59 to 14:58
Sector: E
E
47 images
I've been pretty awful at reading so far this year, apparently averaging about one book per month. That's a far cry from 2019, say, where I got through 41 books in the year. Today's wander was prompted by my rubbish reading, as I needed to go hand back some books to the library, because I'd managed...
Drained Basin
15 December 2020, 12:19 to 13:05
Sector: S
S
18 images
On the down side, I got to Bedminster and found long enough queues at both Mark's Bread and Hopper Coffee that I gave up on the idea of buying a drink and a pasty (from the former) or a mince pie flapjack (from the latter.) On the up side, I got to take some pictures of Cumberland Basin being drained...
Drinking Fountain, the Seven Years War and the Manilla Area
8 February 2021, 12:11 to 12:59
Sector: 
NE
NE
27 images
A wander to knock off a couple of bits around Clifton Park that I'd missed out on previous excursions. This one took in the drinking fountain near Sion Hill and explained a little of how the Seven Years War, which ended in 1763, still has some history on display near Manilla Road.
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...
Fresh Fields
17 October 2021, 12:20 to 14:43
Sector: SE
SE
49 images
For the first time in a while, I had the time and energy to go further afield and knock off some new roads from my "to do" list. I headed through the first Hotwells Festival to Ashton and Bedminster to cross off a few of the suburban roads south of North Street.
First, though, I decided to try to reproduce...
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...
Gardens and Cottages
17 December 2020, 12:30 to 13:29
Sector: NE
NE
24 images
I think the cute little Duncan Cottage was my favourite bit of this wander up the hill to get coffee and a pain-au-raisin from Twelve, though I did enjoy gently musing on the public and private gardens of Clifton, inspired by a closer pass than usual to Royal York Crescent's garden.
I managed absent-mindedly...
Gothic Revival
8 December 2020, 12:12 to 12:57
Sector: NE
NE
13 images
I had a chance to dash down a few new roads during my lunchtime jaunt today. My favourite feature was 7 Wetherell Place, at the corner of Frederick Place, one street behind the University of Bristol Students' Union building. Apparently I'm a sucker for gothic revival, which seems appropriate for this...
Green Squares and Secret Gardens
31 July 2021, 10:43 to 14:04
Sector: NE
NE
90 images
At the end of July I went to have a look around some of the private gardens opened up by the annual Green Squares and Secret Gardens event. Sadly it was compressed into a single day this year, for various Covid-related reasons, it seems, so I didn't get to poke around too many places. I went to:
A...
Greville Smyth
28 October 2020, 12:10 to 13:04
Sector: S
S
4 images
Popped out for a coffee in Greville Smyth park, and got a view of the Andy Council work on the side of the Ashton Avenue sewage pumping station on the way back.
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...