Bristol Travel Blogs

Tonight, I went to see the Maccabees, a sort of achingly cool post punk band, in the ever lovely city of Bristol.  Thekla, the venue, is a boat in Bristol harbour.  This means that the gig was quite intimate, and I was somewhere between nervous about going and very, very excited. Why was…

I hate parking in airports, but I love that wierd atmosphere.  Everyone is either coming or going, very fluid.  Apart from the staff, they just seem bored.  Now did I pack my token sharp object?

I've left my house in St Albans, and come back to my parents house in Bristol to dump all my stuff and pack up all the essential items for my trip to Chicago. I always get stressed when trying to cram my life into two suitcases, but this time I'm gonna take it easy. My plans is to take the bare min…

Even if the weather was not motiviting me during winter (cold, wet and dark from 4PM), I decided to go to Bristol for an afternoon, taking the opportunity to travel with friends who were going there to see a musical. As Christmas was coming soon and I decided to come back home for it, I visited the…

Pushing hard on the pedals of my mountain bike, my man-bag, as Matrilla likes to call them, starts singing a tune. It's the mobile and the man himself. I was riding through the next village getting parts for the car and Matt calls, he's back in the country for more than a day. Brilliant. Twenty…

Well, haven't I been the busy bee! My camera broke (well, in fact one of my flatmates broke it in a drunken moment although he denies it and therefore hasn't offered me any money for it) and I can't afford to buy anotehr one. So I have to rely on my phone, which is shit for taking pictures so I nev…

Back in Thornbury we had plenty of wedding stuff to get on with.  Darryn was working right up 'till the day before and then he and Kim were to go to Amsterdam for their honeymoon.Kim had things of her own to do but had plenty of friends and family to help her with the tasks.  Darryn was a…

Today I took a train to Bristol to meet a friend.  We walked from downtown Bristol up to the Clifton Suspension Bridge.  It was quite a hike up the hills, but certainly worth it for the view! Back downtown we walked around a bit, I got some food & she had to go.  I killed some m…

This blog is not a blog, it is a random collection of my travel pics, not all of them and the dates are a little random as I can't recall all of them.

Portsmouth, Dorset, Arundel, Isle of Wight, Chester, London, and the list goes on...

Around 7:00 in the morning, we left the hostel with our packs on the way to the rail station and saw the balloons were overhead.  Arriving at the station at 7:40, my new friend Philipp and I parted ways as his train pulled away for southwestern England and I awaited my 8:40 ride to Cardiff.&nb…

There is no time left.I've done all the travelling that I could now and Nicole is taking the opportunity to get away for a couple of weeks herself.  I am Managing the place whilst she has a break and I remember that it is a mere 6 months ago that I first scored this job and she did the same th…

I had a lovely taxi driver, who was telling me about how much he loved Bristol and what a great place it was and how in the ten years since he moved to Bristol from Pakistan he'd never seen any racism.  Now if that isn't a unique selling point for a city I don't know what is, and it put me in …

When the day came, I had packed up all the trinkets I'd accumulated over the past 10 months and they were now sailing slowly back to NZ where I'd get the thrill of unpacking it all again.Many of the older set of regulars made their way through the bar, plying me with alcohol and shaking my hand…

Up early today for our first day with the new tour. Same putz food. On the bus at 8am for Hampton Court Palace's Gardens where many good pictures await.  And we are allowed enough time so slowly stroll the grounds and take as many pictures as we wish.  Next a stop in Salisbury were we d…