All Wanders
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...
Long Bemmie Wander with Lisa
11 April 2021, 14:55 to 17:37
Sector: 
SE
SE
99 images
My friend Lisa joined me again, this time for a long wander through "Bemmie". In fact, I tweeted recently using "Bedmo" as my abbreviation for Bedminster, and apparently there's something of a culture war going on. From what I can glean, the longer-term residents call it "Bemmie" and consider "Bedmo"...
Local
3 November 2020, 12:24 to 13:14
Sector: SE
SE
32 images
A very local exploration today, but there are still bits of the near field that I never need to walk down, so it didn't take me long to find somewhere I haven't been in a decade or more, the little enclave of smaller Victorian houses around Oldfield Road and Sandford Road. I'd really like to live in...
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...
Little Clifton Village Details
9 November 2020, 12:24 to 13:04
Sector: 
N
N
29 images
I like The Paragon as a terrace, especially the bowed porches. On the other side of the road, a house attic has a stone lion surrounded by rocaille leaves, according to its listing.
I also love the detail of the arrows in the wrought iron of The Mall's balconies. Today I discovered Westfield place,...
Library, Bookshop, Coffee
3 July 2021, 10:22 to 12:53
Sector: E
E
51 images
I was headed into town to return RA Gilbert's biography of AE Waite to the library and along the way I noticed that Dreadnought had finished their refurbishment, but wouldn't be open until midday. That left me some time to kill, so I bimbled around the old St Augustine's/Gaunt's area for a while, then...
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...
Leigh Woods Solo
19 June 2021, 11:26 to 13:47
Sector: 
W
W
53 images
I hadn't really planned to go out for a wander yesterday; I just got the urge and thought "why not?" (Well, the weather forecast was one possible reason, but I managed to avoid the rain, luckily.)
I wanted to finish off the A369—as it turns out I may still have a small section to go, but I've now walked...
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...
Leftovers with Lisa
1 May 2021, 13:32 to 16:46
Sector: 
NE
NE
79 images
I didn't get to all the little leftover streets around the northeastern part of my area in today's wander, but I definitely knocked a few off the list, plus Lisa and I enjoyed the walk, and didn't get rained on too badly. We spotted the hotting-up of Wisteria season, checked out Birdcage Walk (both...
Knocking Off Clanage Road, a Tidbit on the Stork Hotel, and Pre-Flyover Hotwells
6 November 2021, 13:35 to 14:59
Sector: 
S
S
28 images
I went out simply wanting to knock off the very last little unwalked section of Clanage Road, over by Bower Ashton, which has been annoying me for a while as it's quite close by and I've walked the other bits of it several times. So, my plan was to nip over to Greville Smyth Park via a slightly unusual...
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...
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...
Jacob's Well Wander
1 February 2021, 12:21 to 13:03
Sector: E
E
33 images
I just wanted to get some exercise, really, so I set out to knock off the lower bit of Jacobs Wells Road that I'd not managed to walk up yet. I set the new signboard that the community association had had erected as my destination, after reading about it on their blog.
As it turned out, I couldn't...
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...
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,...
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...
Howard's Lock
27 April 2021, 12:12 to 12:59
Sector: S
S
12 images
Bits of Entrance Lock have been coned off for ages, mostly the area with the lockkeepers' house on it. My friends Sarah and Vik mentioned at the weekend that it had recently been un-coned, so I wandered that way to cross the outermost lockgates for the first time this year. I don't know whether it's...
Hotwells Evening
29 March 2021, 19:04 to 20:28
Sector: SE
SE
9 images
Just a little potter around Hotwells with Sarah and Vik. I didn't visit any new streets, but I liked a couple of the photos a lot.