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Got an hour to kill in Bristol? Perhaps your train has been delayed or you're pottering around until you can check into your hotel? Maybe you're looking for an interesting way to spend your lunch break or are just eager to squeeze even more lovely Bristol experiences into your day. Who can blame you! Here are some short but sweet ways to spend 60 minutes in the city.
Follow the Bristol Harbour Walk
It’s around an hour if you take it at a brisk pace, but if you’ve got more time you could call in at Harbourside attractions like The Matthew, M Shed, At-Bristol, Bristol Aquarium, Brunel’s ss Great Britain or Arnolfini.
Photo credit Carolyn Eaton
See Bristol from the water
Hop on the Bristol Ferry Boat. A round trip starting and ending from the pontoon outside the Watershed takes you around the harbour to Hotwells and back.
It takes around 35 minutes, leaving you 25 minutes to have a coffee at one of the waterfront bars like Watershed, No 1 Harbourside, Mud Dock or The Stable.
Get cultured
Feast your eyes on some fantastic works at Arnolfini, one of Europe's leading centres for contemporary art.
The gallery hosts regular talks, exhibitions and screenings that will sap that hour in the most compelling of ways. Potter in the gift shop afterwards for all sorts of creative treats.
Photo credit: Jamie Woodley
Book tickets for a screening at The Watershed on Bristol Harbourside from 11am. The cinema often screens shorter, independent and foreign films so you'll leave feeling entertainend and highly cultured!
If you've got a bit longer, pop into their cafe for a drink and bite to eat overlooking this bustling waterside location.
Take the Treasure Island Trail
Discover part of Bristol's pirating past - download a trail map and follow the barrels strategically dotted around the Harbourside.
Each barrel represents a chapter from Treasure Island and carries a plaque showing the link between Bristol and places or characters in Robert Louis Stevenson's famous book, Treasure Island. The self-guided walking and cycling route around the city’s historic Floating harbour that can easily be done in an hour.
For other handy guides and recommended routes around the city, take a look at our list of itineraries, including:
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Georgian shopping Quarter full of upmarket, independent shops which is a delight to explore.
Bristol’s Cabot Circus offers the ultimate shopping experience, bringing together a host of high-street and designer brands and confirming the city’s status as the South West’s style capital.
A great selection of trendy clothes boutiques, music and records stores, bars and restaurants, furniture and art galleries.
Based in Bristol’s floating harbour for much of the year, the Matthew is popular for harbour tours as well as longer sailing trips.
The M Shed is an innovative and exciting flagship museum for Bristol, featuring gallery space and a packed events schedule.
We The Curious is a state-of-the-art visitor attraction, offering an amazing world of hands-on discovery for you, your friends and family.
A spectacular aquarium near Bristol's Harbourside that provides an amazing underwater adventure from the British coast to exotic tropical seas
Voyage back in time at Brunel’s SS Great Britain, the world’s first great ocean liner.
Arnolfini is a centre for contemporary arts based on Bristol’s Harbourside. The organisation is dedicated to producing and presenting visual arts, performance, film, music and events.
Not only a place to browse or shop, our upstairs Cafe is the ideal place to meet friends for a coffee or sit down and talk to our shaper.
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