Bristol; Sunday, 17 April, 2011

After breakfast I headed into the centre of town to pick up the open-top sightseeing tour bus. I did a complete tour of the route before stopping in the city centre for a late morning coffee, then managing to pick exactly the same bus back up a couple of stops further down its route and catching it up round to the city museum.

I had a long wander around the city museum and art gallery before heading back down to the station.

When I’d looked up things to do in the area there were several mentions of the Severn Beach railway line as being scenic and worth doing, so I grabbed a return ticket to Avonmouth (as far the trains go on a Sunday) to take in the views.

Now it’s possible that it’s the short section from Avonmouth to Severn Beach that’s particularly spectacular, as the section into Avonmouth whilst being interesting wasn’t the worlds prettiest of rides.

I got off at Avonmouth to have a quick look around, but very quickly realised that it’s not actually a particularly interesting place, dominated as it is by the port. However, by then the train had already departed back to Bristol so instead I had to get a bus back into the city centre.

I got off the bus at College Green and had a look around the Cathedral area and around the city quay before catching the last sightseeing tour of the day.

After getting off the tour I grabbed an early dinner before heading back to the hotel to drop stuff off before, in the twilight catching the bus back up to Clifton to take some photos of the suspension bridge lit up at night.

After that I headed back to the hotel to pack and then grab a good night’s sleep.