All Wanders
Alma Vale
6 December 2020, 11:36 to 12:31
Sector: 
NE
NE
65 images
I wasn't really feeling it when I set out today, on my first car-assisted wander. By the time I'd parked on Alma Vale Road in Clifton it was just starting to rain and I picked my way about in quite a desultory way. It felt strange, as I was very familiar with the area because I'd walked through it hundreds...
A Wide Angle View
30 October 2021, 11:46 to 13:53
Sector: NE
NE
17 images
I had an unsuccessful wander last week, on Tuesday afternoon: my GPS died within about five minutes of leaving the house, and I didn't notice, plus I found hardly anything I'd been looking for. On the plus side, as I was wandering around Park Street I decided to nip into London Camera Exchange on the...
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 Trip to the Tobacco Factory Market and a Quick Look at the Ashton Gate Depot Development
7 August 2022, 10:35 to 12:42
Sector: 
SE
SE
28 images
I'm in the habit of going over to the Tobacco Factory Market on a Sunday. I think I've walked all the routes around that way, but as a Plimsoll Bridge swing let me cross the road to the far side of Brunel Way on my return journey and I took a couple of photos of the brownfield development at the old...
A Trip to the Library
8 June 2021, 17:19 to 18:54
Sector: E
E
24 images
I had to return a book to the library—Ellic Howe's Magicians of the Golden Dawn, very interesting, thanks for asking—so I decided to pick the Central Library as my drop-off point and walk down a segment of Deanery Road that I've surprisingly overlooked so far. In any normal time I'd have been walking...
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...
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...
A Quick Swing Past Ashton Court
5 June 2022, 11:19 to 13:44
Sector: SW
SW
33 images
Another day not dissimilar to my last wander: I'm feeling a bit tired and rather than just moping around the house I thought I'd find some tiny bit of somewhere that I'd not yet walked and get outdoors. This time I headed for the Tobacco Factory Market in Bedminster, as I often do, but went the long...
A Promenade on New Year's Day
1 January 2021, 12:35 to 15:06
Sector: 
NW
NW
58 images
I wandered along the gorge today and found the entrance to the disused Portnalls Number 1 railway tunnel of the Bristol Port Railway and Pier. The door was unlocked, but as soon as I opened it I felt a sense of current habitation and decided discretion was the best option. There's a lot of people homeless...
A New Wander, a New Cafe
21 April 2021, 12:46 to 13:50
Sector: E
E
41 images
Obviously, I was trying to connect to the industrial history of the Canon's Marsh area, to the old gasworks, the docks railway, the warehouses they blew up to make way for all the rather soulless modern stuff (though I do like the Lloyds building, at least.) But what I mostly got out of today's walk...
A Morning of Research and a Cafe in a Castle
25 September 2021, 09:49 to 15:52
Sector: E
E
25 images
I needed to pop to the library, as they'd kindly dug a book out of the reserve store at the B Bond warehouse for me and emailed me to let me know it was ready. So, I took a little trip to town, straight down the Hotwell Road, and spent a few hours reading before stretching my legs with a walk to a new...
A Longer-than-it-looks Walk With Lisa
6 June 2021, 11:59 to 13:16
Sector: E
E
65 images
The track on the map doesn't tell the whole story of this walk with Lisa around and about Clifton, Berkeley Square, Brandon Hill and the harbourside, because the batteries on my GPS ran out while we were on the roof of Trenchard Street car park, it seems. Oh well. I think I did most of the area I was...
A Long Wander Of Miscellany and Magick
8 August 2021, 12:11 to 17:16
Sector: E
E
44 images
This was a wide-ranging wander. I started off crossing the river to Bedminster, to walk a single little cul-de-sac, Hardy Avenue, that I'd managed to miss on at least one previous walk. Then, pausing only to explore a few back alleyways, I headed for a few destinations related mostly by the Hughes family,...
A Long Bristol Port Railway-Inspired Walk from Hotwells Station through Walcombe Slade to Clifton Down
4 November 2021, 09:32 to 13:20
Sector: 
N
N
67 images
The more I research it, the more I find that Hotwells had far better transport links back in Victorian and Edwardian times than it has today. Along with buses that went to more useful places than the City Centre, there were trams, the funicular up to Clifton, the landing stage for paddle steamer services...
A London Wander in Southville
10 April 2021, 13:37 to 16:18
Sector: E
E
102 images
There's a bit of Southville that I've been meaning to get to for some time, where the streets seem to take some strong inspiration from London. There's a Camden Road that crosses with an Islington Road, and a Dalston Road, even an Edgeware Road. For me these names are more evocative than the rather...
A Little Local Wander
7 January 2021, 12:08 to 13:11
Sector: SE
SE
39 images
Which included a literal "local", the Pump House, to try out their shop/deli/cafe. A flat white, some apples and a New York Deli toastie. Eleven quid, mind, but the Pump House was never a cheap pub...
I enjoyed the fog, and wandering down a few more out-of-the-way back alleys and what-have-you on the...
A Journey to the Far East
25 July 2021, 08:47 to 11:19
Sector: SE
SE
78 images
The far east of the intersection of my one-mile radius and Bedminster, anyway. I was feeling a bit tired this morning, so I motivated myself to get out of the door by imagining one of Mokoko's almond croissants. That got me on my way, and I wandered across to Bedminster, through Greville Smyth Park,...
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 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 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...