Travel Notes 4: Bristol
Previously in Travel Notes: SFO to NYC, Aboard the Queen Mary 2, London.
You can board the Great Western Railway in London’s Paddington Station and arrive in Bristol, on England’s west coast, in an hour and forty minutes. It’s a short trip but a big contrast.
My destination was 41 Mina Road (that’s “Mina” with a long I, like the bird), where my English friend Jane (who lives in Israel most of the time) and her daughter Sophie (who lives in Bristol, right around the corner) own a two-bedroom house. You can stay there, too: it’s an Airbnb.
The house is in the St. Werburgh’s neighborhood. Werburgh, who lived in the 7th century C.E., was an Anglo Saxon princess; her name, however, comes from Latin “vereburga,” or “true city.”
Here’s a view from the roof garden at 41 Mina Road.
And here’s the kitchen. The steel-clad house, which was completed in 2019, has won several architectural awards.
