Go Jauntly
A new trail, a new app. I noticed another one of those "circular walks around a city" routes - this time, Bristol. 6 Walks, 33 miles - relatively cheap trains from Worcester. It's achievable.
The only place to get the routes is through an app called Go Jauntly. It all works perfectly - stage-by-stage instructions, real time progress on an open-source map.
Stage 1 is a decent enough ramble and it also brings the Bristol and Bath Railway Walk to my attention. A green corridor along the former 15-mile railway line, cutting straight through the City in a north-east direction. A little built up near Temple Meads - and it does run through a caravan shanty town - presumably forcibly removed from Clifton Downs, after pearl clutching segments on slow news days.
It's busy - and as expected, populated by walkers and dicks on all sorts of wheeled devices - all ignoring the "please share", "go slow and "keep left" signposts. I am two years into my retirement and cannot help but consider my own mortality. I never expected it to come from a dreadlocked hippy travelling 20 mph on a rickety bike with cow-horn handlebars.
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| Hiding from the city on the Bristol/Bath Walkway |
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| Keep Bristol Weird |
The route picks out green corridors when it can - before crossing rugby pitches and Chester Park, then continuing through the urban stretches of Two Mile Hill and Magpie Bottom. Our goal, the Avon Walkway - a gentle riverside stretch that provides the highlight of the day.
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| Messing about on the River Avon |
Troopers Hill is the end of the walk - the chimney of the former copper smelting works, an unofficial symbol of East Bristol.
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| Troopers Hill Heathland |
An encouraging start - that maybe took hiding from the city a little too seriously. 7 miles and not a single pub passed.
Hoping for better news from Stage 2.
Walk Details
Distance - 8.25 miles
Geocaches - 5
Walk Inspiration - A Bristol Ring, Stage 1
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