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Bristol Bound

Bristol is one of my favourite cities in the UK, and by far the most I’ve visited. Here is an appreciation post of the busy city!

Bristol Bites

One cannot talk about Bristol without mentioning its food scene. Unlike in London, where most restaurants in the city are expressions of market consolidation and baby eating, the ones in Bristol meet the demand of a politically conscious, young and rowdy student population.

The colourful food goes hand in hand with the graffitid walls of the city, showing the populace’s lust for vegetarian food, the sandwicherias with massive portions shops suggest a hunger for change, and the hip tapas bars confirm a growing number of graduating students who love Bristol so much that they choose to permanently reside in it.

The central theme uniting the above is that the food is usually good. So if you go to Bristol, don’t be a weirdo like me who meal preps for a trip to Bristol: immerse yourself in the vibrant food scene!

A massive sandwich at Sandwich Sandwich
Tacos at Cargo Cantina

Bristol Broadway

Bristol’s high streets are stunning like any other in the UK, but there is one big difference: graffiti rules.

You see, Bristol is the city of Banksy, and it is totally unashamed of it. There is so much street art that it feels a bit wrong to call it graffiti because it is often commissioned by businesses for advertising.

I’m not sure if these two pieces are commissioned or not.
Just a silly tourist that photobombed an amazing piece of art.

And given that I’m a sucker for graffiti it’s no surprise that most of my photos from Bristol centre paintings than they do actual buildings… but here are a few:

These coloured houses are stunning but they are cursed for everytime I am in Bristol and I visit them, the weather is horrendous.

Bristol Backstreets

While the street art in Bristol is truly stunning, there is something about actual graffiti that makes it more interesting. For one, the artists have to do their work in the dark of night, and two: because they are not commissioned I find that they are often more true expressions of ordinary people, often of pain and anger that is otherwise not allowed to be expressed. Some of these pieces are still seriously artistic, while others are angry scribbles, which are no less meaningful.

Street art/graffiti on an old abandoned police station. It is unclear to me how this piece was done as it seems to take advantage of the material getting naturally worn out/dirty. The two fists say “love more”
Not sure if this is commissioned or not.
Under the bridge… always a good spot for beautiful pieces of art
A tad bit conspiratorial for my taste though a stunning piece of street art. Serious dedication to get this one done.
A starving (African?) child in a style that looks like Banksy’s, with a cunt adding the words “Fat cunt” above it
Banksy’s classic “Well hung lover”
Not graffiti… but I wonder do these work?
One of the most insightful graffiti artworks that I’ve been in my life1
And still, despite everything, there are still those who will never be educated regardless of how much they read.
  1. As of writing, world leaders and privileged people are fretting because of the language shift from international law, to rule based order, to new world order… etc… However, it’s not that the world has suddenly become worse, and this artwork, drawn up at least as far back as 2024, captured it perfectly: “There have always been two types of wars: Civilised wars and colonial wars. Those which are governed by the rule of law, and those governed by the natural law” (Steven Friedman). People are afraid now because things that become so saturated and consolidated that the colonial wars are coming to places that have historically been… “civilised”. ↩︎
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