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What do you think are the Bristol rites of passage?
A recent thread on Reddit posed an intriguing question:
“My friends and I are trying to compile a list of everything you need to experience to be a real Bristolian!
“What do you think are the Bristol rites of passage?”
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Here are a few of the best replies:
- Going to the Balloon Fiesta and subsequently vowing to never go back there again
- Live here long enough to complain about other people moving here
- Go down the Clifton rock slide
- Going to Tobacco Factory market, getting scared by the prices and going to Aldi next door
- Gloucester Road pub crawl
- Finding the spot that echoes in Cabot Circus
- Get lost in your own city because they’ve fucked about with the roads / diversions / bridge closures
- Have a child born in Southmead or St Michael’s
- Getting your bicycle nicked
- Having a few halves of Bristolian at the Apple
- Pizzas from the Grecian on a night out
- Wait at a bus stop for an hour for a once-every-20-minute bus
- Going to Bristol Museum on a school trip to visit the Egyptian exhibition (bonus points if you’ve done it as a child and as a parent helper)
- A visit to Jason Donervan
- End up on the Portway when you actually wanted to go to Bedminster
- Be at a gig that Big Jeff is at
Main photo: Martin Booth
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