Bye Bye Bristol.

We had re-booked to go on the walking tour today so after completing our pre-flight checks we set off to the College Green to meet up with the group. It was well worth the £7 and we were taken to mainly places that we hadn't found for ourselves. Bristol is the centre for Street Art and Banksy is not the only one.

 This one is found close to the 'Well Hung Lover'.

In 2010 and 2011 a street art festival was held in a run down part of the city around Nelson Road. International artists were given a wall and some of the results are fantastic.

The Festival was a success and the area has started to be regenerated.

Nearby is this fantastic Art Deco building of the Printers Edward Everard and was an early form of street art.

This is the Llangoner Trow pub and is where Daniel Defoe heard the story of Alexander Selkirk who had been marooned on a desert island for four years and had just returned to Bristol. The story was written up and became 'Robinson Crusoe'.

We had a bit to eat and then set off down the floating harbour heading for the Kennet and Avon Canal.

This is the Olive Shed where we had our lovely tapas yesterday.

Netham Lock is the end of the Floating harbour and where we joined the River Avon again. We tied up and paid our dues, and got a very good deal in the end. A short while after we left we had a call from the lock keeper and he had given us the wrong receipt and so we turned round and delivered it to him, 

Once outside the city the Avon becomes wooded and was a pleasure to travel along. Later there was a high tide and it would top over the weir at Netham and would raise the level of the river in this stretch by 0.5m tonight.

This is Hanham Lock and marks the start of the Kennet and Avon Canal. Below here the waters are looked after by Bristol City Council. We managed to find a mooring on the pontoon above the lock and called it a day.

This could be Helen as we are well taken with Bristol. It definitely has a different feel to it. It appears to be very prosperous and appears to have it's own mind. I think for a young person it feels like a small London (if you see what I mean). We hope to come back again as there is still much to see. It has made a great bookend for our Trip down the Severn and now we are on the way to Bath.