Bristol day6: City Centre Tour
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Travel on September 3, 2010
As today was my last (full) day in Bristol, I decided to stay in the city visiting some new landmarks and some old ones. My first visit was the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, a bit of a trek from the apartment…
… past the College Green,
… the Council House, up the hill…
Bristol day5: Stately Homes, Wookey Holes and Spooky Writings
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Travel on September 2, 2010
Bit of a mix today, visited Blaise Castle House located within some amazing grounds – its now owned by Bristol Council (wonder if I got on the waiting list I could live there?).
Inside the rooms are divided into a number of different collections including; Victorian toys and clothes – those gentleman waistcoats were very snazzy!
Bristol day4: Steam-less and Bath
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Travel on September 1, 2010
Today’s adventure went a little flat, I should have done my research first of course!
My first visit was to the Avon Valley Railway; a steam railway of course, but what I would have found out if I’d checked the timetable would be that there was no action today! A little disappointing to say the least, but my own fault – maybe next year.
With the extra time I now had I decided to head further East and onto Bath. I arrived about 2pm so there wasn’t much time to see everything so I went to find possibly the most most famous landmark; The Roman Baths.
Walked past this church (I think) at the junction of Northgate Street and Walcot Loop Street but can#t find out what its called…
Bristol day3: Victorian and Gothic
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Travel on August 31, 2010
Today I was retracing some steps form earlier on in the year…
… Millennium Square…
… over Pero’s Bridge and a quick scoot around the Arnofini Gallery across the bridge at Price Street and along the quay side towards the SS Great Britain. En route I just had to take some pictures of those fantastic quay side cranes…
Bristol day2: Caves of giants
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Travel on August 30, 2010
From the harbour side in Bristol I travelled South-West to Cheddar and the famous Gorge and Caves. So what of the giants? When you travel the road, its easy to feel dwarfed by the sheer size of the gorge, you can see from the pictures how tall (or deep) the gorge is.
Bristol day1: Arrival at the penthouse
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Travel on August 29, 2010
Well, I’ve arrived once again in Bristol. This time rather than staying at a hotel I thought I’d stay in a penthouse apartment! I’ll have to say its very nice; on the 7th floor with a full length veranda/balcony where you can see the SS Great Britain, Millennium Square and the Cathedral.
Bristol: For your viewing pleasure
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings, Travel on June 4, 2010
Ok, I’ve sorted out all the pictures from the past couple of weeks into a collection on Flickr which you can see here. Alternatively you can view my favourites in the slideshow below (Flash)
would appreciate some feedback – as always good or bad…
Bristol day4: The Brunel Mile & City Docks
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on June 3, 2010
What seems to be a reoccurring trend it was a beautiful day when it was time to end my holiday.
It was the last day, and I thought I’d take one of the MP3 walking tours that you can download from the Visit Bristol website, which started at Temple Meads Station.
Bristol day3: Animals & Brunel
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on June 2, 2010
Returned to SS Great Britain today, just to get some pictures with the camera (I’ll put them on Flickr when I return), but I’ll post a couple here for now..
Bristol day2: Water & Iron
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on June 1, 2010
Firstly I’m really annoyed at myself – I forgot to charge my camera last night and the battery ran out when I got to the SS Great Britain, so all the remaining pictures were taken with the trusty iPhone.
Breakfast at dawn? hardly! I got an ‘urgent’ update from one of my clients so the working was taken up looking after that!
Arrived at the restaurant at about 10am this morning, as you can see the weather wasn’t great!
The weather forced me inside for the morning and to get away from all the rain – you guessed it, I went to the Aquarium?! If you’re in Bristol I recommend the Blue Reef Aquarium and iMAX Theatre (included in the price), its one of the best exhibits I’ve seen!