BRISTOL

VIKING BRISTOL

In 2015, I visited cousin Dene Bone - who are running a supermarket in Exeter – for a week stay – which allow me to visit Bristol – Plymouth and Exmouth – near the Devon area.

I started off with Bristol – a town popular for shipping industries – one-day detour is recommended here.

I began touring the viking town via the following routes - St Mary Redcliff Church – Floating Harbour – Mshed Wharf and Museum – town centre – Temple Meads.

St Mary Redcliff Church building survive the war – a 14^th century structure whose grander of proportion and majestic Perpendicular Gothic design have made it one of the most celebrated parish churches in England, Bristol's cathedral church was originated as the abbey church of St Augustine of Canterbury (1142), is famous for its Norman chapter house and gateway.

ST MARY REDCLIFF CHURCH

 Bristol Floating Harbour  (1809). Bristol was transformed by the opening of the floating harbour  where 80 acres of tidal river was impounded to allow visiting ships to remain a float all time. Over the next two centuries, the harbour grew as a commercial port until it closed in 1975. Since then, it was generated for leisure, commerce and residence. In 2009, the city marked the bicentenary with a series of events. The floating harbour is at the town centre - a good location for photography session.

FLOATING HARBOUR IN TOWN CENTRE

Princess Wharf M Shed is a museum all about Bristol – explore the city through time, its places, its people and their stories. Free entrance. See amazing film and photographs – prehistoric time till now.

PRINCES WHARF M SHED MUSEUM

SS Great Britain is No. 1 attraction for tourists in Britain – a museum ship and former passenger steamship, which was advanced for her time. SS Great Britain has receive a multiple award winning attraction showing the world's first ocean liner alongside the Brunei Institute, a world class conservation and education centre, She was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 -1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunei, for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. The Great Britain was the first to combine with iron and screw propeller. She was the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic, in 1845, for 14 days. Now the ship is exhibited in dry dock in Bristol since 2005, held at Bristol Harbour.

MAJESTIC SS BRITAIN

Temple Meads – is a popular railway stations where locals meet here for shopping or traveling.

TEMPLE MEADS

Bristol is a city and count in South West England – has the 10^th largest population in England. The medieval town of Bristol was incorporated in 1155. Iron Age hill forts and Roman Villas were build near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. Bristol was the starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On the ship out of Bristol in 1497 – John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America.

Bristol's modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the UK – the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling.

Bristol is one of the UK's most popular tourist destinations, was elected in 2009 as one of the world's top ten cities by International travel publishers Dorling Kindersley in their Eyewitness series of travel guides. The Sunday Times named is as the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014 and 2017, and Bristol won EU's European Green Capital Award in 2015.

MAY 19, 2015