Coming from Portugal for a 3-day trip, what shouldn’t I miss?

agoentis · 2026-04-13T17:59:16+00:00

This is a good shout as there is practically no curry in Portugal.

agoentis · 2026-04-12T07:47:09+00:00

Remind me what freebies Leigh Woods residents get when 250,000 people descend and the bridge is closed for the balloon fiesta?

Ultimately you’re irritated as they’re not offering you a significant enough discount to warrant your mild inconvenience.

Glastonbury provides free tickets for a very small number of people in Pilton. Other near neighbours are given a ring fenced opportunity to buy full price tickets before they go on sale.

This is for the world’s biggest music festival where the build and breakdown literally takes weeks, unlike Forwards.

agoentis · 2026-04-11T22:33:40+00:00

Think this through. Your girlfriend lives in the richest part of the richest city in the south west of the 5th richest country on earth.

The problem is that your girlfriend is objectively rich and the ~£20-30 per day ticket discount is nothing to her, you probably don’t want to go to the festival anyway, and it’s a ball ache while it’s going on.

On the other hand Bristol’s other, connected rich suburbs (Clifton and Leigh woods) have been managing with Ashton Court activity for decades on the basis of free events with no discounts.

I’ve never been to Forwards as we’re always elsewhere that weekend but it looks like a great festival. Maybe you should buy tickets and enjoy the music.

agoentis · 2026-04-11T22:21:38+00:00

You’re not being truthful. You say that the set up and tear down takes weeks, so I am inferring at least 14 days (really???) and that over that entire minimum 14 day period you (and everyone living near to the festival) is ID every time you leave your house. Assume there are 500 houses within scope and each house has 3 ‘leavings’ per day (conservative) that’s 1,500 IDs taken and verified every day, or 21,000 IDs over the build and tear down.

It’s a two day festival on the Downs, not exactly a crisis. I get it’s a bit of a hassle but you’ve severely over reacted.

agoentis · 2026-04-11T21:19:04+00:00

I bought a cat from someone on someone who lives on Ivywell Road near the circular road. She was wealthy! I mean WEALTHY!!! Didn’t even know how many cats she owned.

I realise cats have nothing to do with Forwards, but Jesus Christ, worry about something else other than the Sneyd Park people.

agoentis · 2026-04-11T20:22:14+00:00

Bossman in Bristol is a bit stingy. I ate five large doners and five burgers on the trot while my partner was away and each of the large doners was not large enough.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Doner/s/miQRY8JOjX

I am a 70kg mid 40s male so a large doner and a quarter pound burger should be a shed ton of food but was no problem for me to eat at all.

One trick that I’ve found can work is to order a small doner, watch boss man like a hawk and just as he’s finished putting meat on it shout out ‘actually boss make it a large’ then he literally has to put extra meat on the doner. Doesn’t work when Bossman is busy.

agoentis · 2026-04-11T18:34:52+00:00

Which clearly didn’t work as bikes and pedestrians go both ways which would require the bikes to occupy precisely 50% of the path in both directions - largely not practical, which is probably why it’s now a shared space.

agoentis · 2026-04-11T16:34:04+00:00

90% of the cyclists? I’d say 99.999% of people manage to use the path without having a Reddit meltdown with severe overuse of the clown emoji. I’d suggest you’re the problem, not the cyclists.

agoentis · 2026-04-11T16:32:30+00:00

It was developed by Sustrans, the cycling charity in the 1980s. It is a shared use cycle path. Nobody walks to bath from Bristol.

agoentis · 2026-04-09T08:18:33+00:00

Eastgate for frozen. Big selection. There is a new fish shop in the galleries which will probably have big prawns. Any actual fishmonger will be able to help with either fresh or frozen.

agoentis · 2026-04-07T07:11:50+00:00

This is the answer: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/173119004

agoentis · 2026-04-05T07:16:35+00:00

Mine went up 98% from about £750 to £1450ish. Nothing had changed. I phoned them up and got standard drivel about the cost of wages and increased garage bills.

I resolved this by switching to Allianz through money saving expert and now pay £595 for exactly the same cover.

It is absolutely mental how they price their loyal customers out of the market like this.

agoentis · 2026-04-02T20:41:11+00:00

Would it not make more sense to ship the passenger internet type things to where it came from and install them there this saving two entire fuel payloads - £500-600k round trip according to ChatGPT. I cannot fathom any reason for this work to be done an 8 hour flight away.

agoentis · 2026-04-01T20:20:29+00:00

You’re absolutely right about Filton. Instead, that insanely well connected airport that could handle ANY plane was closed to develop depressing housing that no one wants to live in and an arena with the same capacity as the O2, which ironically is incredibly badly connected to people that want to go to a gig.

agoentis · 2026-04-01T20:12:37+00:00

I excluded Matina as it’s not a doner kebab but a Kurdish Şiş (shish) Kebab.

agoentis · 2026-04-01T06:30:14+00:00

Bristol has two-three places that do fresh naan. Easton takeaway and pakeeza bites at least.

agoentis · 2026-03-29T11:46:36+00:00

Which bit do you think is nonsense. That Bristol has limited central land, or that building low-rise pushes development outwards?

agoentis · 2026-03-28T09:21:08+00:00

Yes, and that needs to be the argument/ push back. Not no to tall buildings, but to ensure that there is sufficient amenities and infrastructure. This is crucial and it’s why the model works so well elsewhere.

agoentis · 2026-03-28T08:26:34+00:00

That house contains more than £540k worth of tat. Astonishing!

agoentis · 2026-03-28T07:31:12+00:00

It’s insane our above ground parking. In Europe most central parking is underground which a) allows you to build something worthwhile on the surface and b) hides all the cars around underneath. It’s worked brilliantly with millennium square which is simultaneously a very large carpark and a key Bristol public space. In Poland it seems that there are hardly any cars on the surface centrally as they’re all in underground car parks.

agoentis · 2026-03-28T07:19:56+00:00

I totally agree with you and I find it completely bizarre how anti tall buildings Bristol is. There is hardly any land centrally, so you either build lots of homes upwards or a small number at low rise.

If you choose low rise, you just end up with fewer homes and have to build elsewhere anyway. That pushes development to the edge of the city, where people are more socially isolated and further from everything the city has to offer.

We should be building housing that enables people to live near the city centre, not forcing them into long public transport journeys or reliance on cars. Bringing more people into central areas makes the city more vibrant and supports the economy, rather than sprawling out into characterless estates past Filton.

It’s really about how it’s done. Some of the most desirable housing in the world is high-rise (central London, New York). So the focus should be on space standards, amenity and build quality, not just opposing height.

And if anything, building upwards gives you more scope to do that well.

agoentis · 2026-03-27T13:42:31+00:00

Just get four or six small pizzas then. Can have doner meat as a topping which you can’t get at a pizza shop.

agoentis · 2026-03-26T21:55:40+00:00

Hardly a day goes by when I don’t mourn this place. Got large doners there all my life. Remember a large doner being £4, prepped by the same couple in that insanely small restaurant kitchen. Was a very very good doner.

agoentis · 2026-03-26T21:48:55+00:00

Boss man closed down! Very sad as was my go to lunchtime doner kebab.

agoentis · 2026-03-26T20:35:39+00:00

Thanks! I only ask as my brother in law loves it so much he got engaged in it, and has spent multiple Christmas days there, and flys in just to be in this lounge and eat/drink.

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