B-Rizzle

So after my days in Bath, I headed to Bristol.

Got to my hostel around 6ish and it was a pretty sweet room - especially compared to the last place! We had a shower and a toilet in our room, so that was nice.

I went and made dinner straight away and made some friends in the kitchen. The can opener was a biatch to work, but I managed to get my beans open. One of the other guys literally cut open his can of Tuna with the only sharp knife in the place haha.

I made some cool new friends in the kitchen while cooking and then we all ended up in the super cheap bar downstairs drinking till about 12.30am, so that was a good time.

The next day, I got up and it was raining *sad panda*. I had already decided that I was gonna do a Free Walking Tour of Bristol, so a little rain wasn't gonna stop me! I headed up to the meeting place, and turned out I was the only punter on that tour, little bit awkward, but it was fun. I'm glad we still went ahead with the tour because I was only in Bristol for a couple of days, and I wanted to make the most of it. Even though it pelted with rain during spots of the tour, Alex kept trudging on, with me following. We even made a quick stop into Oxfam for me to buy a Brolly. It was a super good tour, and we went all over the place. Over the next couple of days I was in Bristol, I kept passing the places he had taken me and I was all "ohhh theres that again". I got so confused haha.

Some famous painting

Some pretty park

Then I did this.
This being the ss Great Britain. I'm not the biggest naval history fan, but all the guidebooks said I should go here, so I paid my £10, hoping it would be at least half decent, and headed in.

It was actually a lot better than I thought it would be,  it was all in super simple language (hurrah!) and it was really interesting. It was all about how the ship was used to take the people over to NZ and Aussie, so I found it quite close to home haha. And that was the museum side of it. Then I went onto the ship and that was decked out really well too, the dummies, not to my liking so much, but it was quite realistic and we got a free audio guide too, so that put you in the frame of mind of the first class passengers and gave you a tour. That was fun, and kinda weird to see how different the classes were!

And pictures are here -

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After my exploration of the ship, I wandered up to the shops for a bit, cos there was a craft shop up there I wanted to get to and so after I went there, I went back down to the hostel and chilled out there, cooked dinner, and ended up going to an Open Mic Night (singing) which was long, but fun. They were all good singers (thankfully) and it was nice to just chillax with a new group of friends and listen to some chilled tunes haha. 

And that was day 1 of Bristol.

Day 2 -

I started out by heading across the road to @Bristol, which I had heard was a kids science museum thing. It was pretty much just like a giant Nature Space. It was kinda awkward me being there without a kid, and there were quite a few school groups there and so I just looked slightly creepy. But I still had a good time. This is the kinda place that speaks better with pictures.

This is a senses guy. The bigger the organ/whatever
you wanna call it, the more it senses things. I loled.

I finished up there a lot earlier than I thought,  so I had time to go up to Gloucester Road, which is (or at least was, up until recently) the longest road in the UK of independent shops. So I thought it would be quite cool to wander up there, but alas, it wasn't as good as I thought it would be, and it was just pretty much crap shops, or tech shops. I spent £2.50, so that was pretty good I thought!

After going back to the hostel to have some food, I headed out on some random bus to Clifton. I really had no idea where I was going, so I was quite greatful for googlemaps! So I made it to Clifton - and a few more craft shops round there, before getting a coffee and missioning it out to the Clifton Suspension Bridge - again, all the guide books said I should go there!

I'm glad I did, it was super pretty and quite fun to explore. There was this massive gorge that literally popped out of nowhere - I don't remember going up that many hills to get there at least!

But I got there at sunset, so I had quite a few awesome photo opportunities! And here they are!!!!

So yeah, that all happened.

That night I just chilled at the hostel, watched some TV and hung out with some of my new friends. It was great!!

The next day was my last day in Bristol :(. I got up early cos I had to pack up my stuff, so once I had done that, I went up the road to the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. It was kinda like their generic museum thing. It was cool, nothing amazing, but they did have a cool Roman Exhibition that was on which was quite interesting, and a cool Egyptian exhibition. Totally English related right? But it was fun to look around and there were some amazing crystals and a great geology exhibition - I find that stuff amazing!

The big building - uni. The one beside it - Museum.

After that, I went up a big tower, on a big hill for a lovely panaromaic shot of Bristol. So with the help of the magical Rusty Potts, here it is -

And yeah. It was sunny!!! It was a nice walk though, it was cool.

Then I walked back down to the waterfront, and Kahu needed some escaping and playing! hahahhaha

 So I went to the MShed which is the museum all about Bristol and their people and places and culture, so that was interesting. I think its more for the people of Bristol, but it was a good look around and I got a reasonable idea about the history of the place and what its been through and stuff.

Wallace and Gromit were created in Bristol

Annnd finally, I went to the Georgian House, which was a house...set up like Georgian times. Funny that!! It was a quick look because it was about to close, but I liked it! And it was interesting. I took a whole bunch of pictures of the kitchen stuff for Mumsy....cos I think about her like that haha.

Generic Arty Shot

So yeah, that was Bristol. I missioned it to get my bags and stuff back to the Bus Station and came back to London. There was heaps of traffic, I literally just fell asleep straight away! It was great!

I'll update on the rest of half term stuff soon, xx