steepholm

For me, travelling to work usually involves a 15-minute drive through a fairly unprepossessing part of Bristol (via the big Eastville Tesco and up the Fishponds Road, as often as not). Occasionally I walk it, in which case it becomes a hilly 50-minute trek, but one that allows me to take in a few pleasant shortcuts across parks and such. Today, however, the weather being particularly glorious, I decided to see whether it was possible to walk the four miles to work without using any pavements or streets at all. Barring a couple of hundred yards at the very beginning and end, and a fifty-yard stretch in the middle, it was. On the way back I took some photos...

We start in Fishponds. This paddock is next door to the campus. That's the library in the background.

This is in the next door field - but what is that metal contraption next to the tree?

The path leads downward towards the River Frome...

Where we cross the bridge...

And follow the path the other side...

...to Snuff Mills

Where we pause to watch the water-wheel.

Here we hit the road very briefly, but the way is enlivened by the site of an elf-factory, where they are currently working on Legolas's younger brother.