24 hours in Paris.

12th Feb - Wedding Anniversary but it might have been an early (or late) Valentine – In Paris for 24 hours.

Paris by Eurostar from Bristol with an hotel and restaurant in St Germain is not the cheapest 'greenish' trip described in this blog.  

We set off with our bus passes at ten to nine in the morning.

The bus obligingly waited a minute or two (it was running ahead of schedule) to let us get on free on the stroke of nine. It took us down to the  Bristol City Centre, from where we could walk across Queen's Square along the line of only completely pedestrianised (until the 1980s) dual carriageway that I know, by way of the baste bridge over the floating harbour, past St Mary's Redcliffe (Queen Elizabeth's “finest Parish church  in all England”) to Brunel's grand Temple Meads Station.

Greenish way to Tenby Walled Town

Starting from Bristol (but it could quite easily have been London - see note at end) a trip by public transport to the walled town of Tenby makes a fine short break and with Pembrokeshire a wonderful longer holiday or stop off on the way to Ireland. Tenby is the founder member of Walled Towns Friendship Circle (now European WalledTowns) and home of Peter Osborne MBE Life President. DMB Research pages are at http://www.walledtownsresearch.org

Once within Wales train fares in advance can be  very inexpensive to West Wales. The art is to find a cheap ticket to Cardiff and then onwards (sometimes even on the same train: see note at foot of post).

Bristol to Dorset for a couple of days with BdyB

For a Young-Old traveller or two, Dorset is an interesting place to go from Bristol. It is not really very accessible so better for a couple of days than a single day out. In the current (extraordinary) warm March weather, it can be a delight and, even in normal weather, a pleasure.
For instance:
Day one
Take the 0841 First Great Western (FGW) Weymouth train,