{"id":7996,"date":"2025-06-09T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=7996"},"modified":"2025-06-22T20:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T20:31:32","slug":"sneaky-weekend-in-bristol-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=7996","title":{"rendered":"Sneaky weekend in Bristol, June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The lease for the CAMC site at Baltic Wharf was extended into July a few weeks ago, and I managed to secure a reservation for Friday and Saturday nights. I also managed to procure a ticket for a great Thin Lizzy tribute act – Limehouse Lizzy – performing at the O2 Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was drama on the journey to Bristol when the Tyre pressure warnings sounded just before joining the M5. One of the front tyres was 6 psi lower than it should be, so we detoured to a local tyre centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They stripped down the wheel, replaced the valve, but couldn’t find any issues with the tyre itself. At this point, I made a mental note to reset the Tyre pressure monitoring system after switching the wheels front to back…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No charge for their services as they couldn’t find a problem, so a big recommendation to Pro Tyre, near the M5 services, Exeter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This unwanted distraction meant that we didn’t incur the wrath of the CAMC wardens at Bristol by arriving before the 1pm opening time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had booked a pitch with awning, which was a mistake because the best pitches alongside the harbour are all non-awning. And, of course, our campervan doesn’t even have a proper awning!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pitch 41, Baltic Wharf CAMC site, Bristol 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Pitch 41, CAMC Baltic Wharf, Bristol 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Later in the afternoon, we headed into Bristol City centre, where we ate at “Three Brothers Burgers”. A popular haunt on the side of the river and next to the street party scene “King Street”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Highlight of the day was the tribute band “Limehouse Lizzy”. As a teenager in the 70s, I remember the album “Jailbreak” being a firm favourite in the 6th form common room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a cracking setlist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Limehouse Lizzy were supported by the AC\/DC tribute band Sin City – they put in a good performance of hits from the Bon Scott era, but there are more accomplished AC\/DC tribute acts out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a late night, we slept long into Saturday morning, which was fine, because it was a very wet affair. As we walked along the harbour \/ wharf we encountered a steam train ferrying passengers along the sidings. We had seen the railway lines previously but never imagined they were still in use!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Steam train at Bristol Wharf, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We had already decided that we needed to find some indoor entertainment and had booked tickets to watch the film “The Salt Path”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great film, close to capacity audience, showing at a wonderful community location – The Watershed. After the film we visited Bansky’s “Well Hung Lover”.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Banksy “Well hung lover”, Bristol 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The rain continued into the evening and it was a wet walk \/ bus journey back to the campsite, passing “Gaol Ferry Bridge” (aka “Bear Bridge”). A local artist has planted two sculptures there – a teddy bear sitting on a swing and a child wearing a dunce hat. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Gaol Ferry Bridge, Bristol 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sunday morning and we woke to a flurry of activity taking place just outside the campsite at Bristol Harbour. Organised by Bristol Rotary club, this “boat racing” event – Dragon Boat Racing – is competed for by some 36 teams and takes the entire day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We only had time to watch a couple of races before we headed off on the short journey to Cheddar Gorge, where we would spend one night at the Cheddar Caravan and Motorhome club site.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pitch 20, Cheddar Gorge CAMC site, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Cheddar gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills. It’s a lovely rural location, so it was disappointing to see that over-tourism and over-commercialistion has turned it into some kind of “Blackpool in the countryside”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We decided that the gorge wasn’t for us and headed off on a cirular walk around Cheddar Reservoir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, we returned back to East Devon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The lease for the CAMC site at Baltic Wharf was extended into July a few weeks ago, and I managed to secure a reservation for Friday and Saturday nights. I also managed to procure a ticket for a great Thin Lizzy tribute act – Limehouse Lizzy – performing at the O2 Academy. There was drama … Continue reading Sneaky weekend in Bristol, June 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-united-kingdom","category-june-weekend-in-bristol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7996"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8043,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions\/8043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}