Bristol in 3 days

SS Great Britain (the most important single ship in maritime history — the first ocean-going propeller-driven iron steamship in the world, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859) and launched on 19 July 1843 at the Great Western Dock in Bristol): the three "world's firsts" in a single ship: the first ocean-going vessel to be built of iron (replacing wood as the primary structural material of ocean-going ships for the first time in the history of navigation), the first ocean-going vessel to be powered by a screw propeller (replacing the paddle wheel as the most efficient ship propulsion technology in the history of steam navigation: the propeller is the most efficient propulsion device ever designed for water — the SS Great Britain's propeller was the most significant marine engineering innovation since the invention of the stern rudder in the 13th century), and the first ocean-going vessel designed for regular Atlantic passenger service powered by steam (the most important route in 19th-century maritime commerce: the New York-Bristol/Liverpool transatlantic service): the ship that made every previous ocean-going vessel obsolete overnight (the transition from wood to iron, from sail to steam and from paddle to propeller represented the most complete transformation of maritime technology in the history of navigation, all embodied in a single vessel designed by a single genius): the dry dock museum (the most atmospheric and the most historically immersive ship museum in the world: the SS Great Britain is preserved in her original 1843 Great Western Dock — the same dock in which she was built: the glass "sea" beneath the ship (the dehumidified chamber under the keel that prevents the iron hull from rusting by maintaining a humidity level below 25%) is the most technically innovative museum conservation system in the world).

Clifton Suspension Bridge (the most famous engineering landmark in Bristol and the most celebrated suspension bridge in the UK — designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1831, completed posthumously in 1864 (Brunel died on 15 September 1859, five years before the completion of his most celebrated project)): the bridge dimensions: the 214m main span (the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it was designed in 1831 — now the 4,023rd longest suspension bridge in the world but still the most beautiful by the most universally agreed standard), the 75m height above the River Avon at high tide, and the 76m height of the towers (the most elegantly proportioned suspension bridge towers in engineering history): the Avon Gorge (the most dramatic natural gorge in southern England: the 75m-deep limestone gorge carved by the River Avon through the Carboniferous limestone of the Mendip Hills (the most important karst limestone landscape in the UK south of the Yorkshire Dales)): the Brunel biography (the most important engineer in British history: Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed the most important engineering works of the Victorian era: the SS Great Britain (the most important ship in maritime history), the GWR railway (the most important railway in Britain (the "God's Wonderful Railway" — the Great Western Railway from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads (the most architecturally important railway terminus in Britain: the Temple Meads Brunel station (1839) — the most important surviving Brunel building in Bristol))).

Clifton Village (the most affluent and the most architecturally significant neighbourhood in Bristol): the Georgian and Regency terraces of the Clifton area (the most important concentration of Georgian domestic architecture in England outside Bath (the most important Georgian city in England — Bath is 13km from Bristol and was historically the fashionable neighbour of Bristol, its merchant families and its summer residents who came to take the waters)): the Royal York Crescent (the most impressive Regency residential crescent in Bristol — the longest residential crescent in England (136m): the curving terrace of 46 identical Regency houses on the south-facing hillside above the Avon Gorge: the most dramatic residential outlook in Bristol): the Clifton Arcade (the most beautiful Victorian shopping arcade in Bristol — the 1904 covered arcade with the ornate iron-and-glass roof: the most important Victorian retail architecture in Bristol): the Clifton Observatory (the most spectacular viewpoint in Clifton — the telescope observatory and the underground cave (the "Giant's Cave" — the natural limestone cave beneath the Observatory on the Clifton Down that can be accessed by a 90m ladder descent): the most spectacular underground viewpoint in Bristol).

Clifton Village restaurant dinner: the Whiteladies Road dining strip (the most important restaurant street in Bristol — the 600m stretch of Whiteladies Road from Clifton Down to Queen's Road with the most diverse and the most consistently high-quality collection of independent restaurants in Bristol): the classic British dinner: the beef Wellington (the most important British dinner party dish: the beef tenderloin (the "fillet" in British terminology: the most tender cut of the British beef) coated in the duxelles (the finely chopped mushroom + shallot + garlic + thyme paste (the most important French culinary preparation: the "duxelles" named after the Marquis d'Uxelles, the most important French gastronome of the 17th century) and the pâté (the liver pâté (the "pâté de foie")) wrapped in the puff pastry and baked: the most dramatic British dinner party centrepiece): the Bristol cider (the most important alcoholic drink in the Somerset-Bristol region: the Somerset cider (the "scrumpy" — the most traditional West Country term for the rough, cloudy, tannic farmhouse cider that is the most authentic cider of the English West Country (the area of England with the highest density of apple orchards and the highest per-capita cider consumption in the world)): the Thatcher's Gold (the most commercially important Bristol-area cider brand), the Orchard Pig (the most artisanal Bristol-area cider brand) and the local farmhouse cider from the most important Somerset artisan producers.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (free — the most important museum in the southwest of England): the Egyptian mummies (the most important Egyptian collection in the southwest of England — the mummies from the Egyptian Middle Kingdom (2055–1650 BCE) and New Kingdom (1550–1070 BCE) periods: the most important pre-Ptolemaic Egyptian artifacts in any West of England museum): the Bristol dinosaurs (the most important UK dinosaur discovery in an urban setting: the Thecodontosaurus antiquus (the "socket-tooth lizard") — the 230-million-year-old Triassic dinosaur first discovered in a quarry at Clifton (now an urban park) in 1834: the most important early discovery of a Triassic dinosaur in the UK (the Thecodontosaurus was among the first dinosaurs to be scientifically described in Britain (the 4th dinosaur scientifically described in Britain after the Megalosaurus (1824), the Iguanodon (1825) and the Hylaeosaurus (1833))): the Banksy exhibit (the Bristol Museum became the most important Banksy exhibition venue in the UK when Banksy's unauthorized "Banksy vs. Bristol Museum" exhibition (2009) attracted over 300,000 visitors in 12 weeks — the most attended temporary exhibition in Bristol Museum history: the most important single event in Banksy's public art career (the unauthorized exhibition was the most commercially and the most critically successful street artist exhibition in UK history (the exhibition included the most iconic Banksy installations and canvases in a single UK venue)).

St. Nicholas Market lunch (the oldest food market in Bristol, established 1743 — the most important food market in the southwest of England): the most diverse and the most authentic street food market in Bristol (the 700m² of covered market stalls with the most diverse range of street food in any UK city outside London): the Ethiopian injera (the flat sourdough bread made from the fermented teff flour — the most important food in the Ethiopian tradition: the circular, spongy bread used as both a plate and a utensil for the most important Ethiopian stews (the "wots")): the Jamaican jerk chicken (the most important Jamaican food in Bristol: the chicken marinated in the Scotch bonnet pepper + allspice + thyme + ginger + soy sauce + brown sugar brine for 24–48 hours, then slow-cooked over the wood fire (the most authentic preparation: the "jerk" (the "char-jerk" — the technique of cooking the marinated meat over the pimento (allspice) wood fire that gives the jerk chicken its most important smoky-spicy flavor)): the Vietnamese pho (the most important Vietnamese soup: the slow-cooked beef bone broth (the pho bo broth: the beef bones + star anise + cloves + cinnamon + ginger + onion slow-cooked for 8–12 hours) with the rice noodles, the thinly sliced beef (the "bo" — the beef: raw slices placed in the hot broth and cooked by the heat of the soup), the beansprouts, the fresh basil, the lime and the hoisin sauce).

Stokes Croft walk (the most artistic and the most bohemian neighbourhood in Bristol — the "Montmartre of Bristol"): the most concentrated street art district in the UK (the murals, stencils, paste-ups and installations of the most important street artists in Britain fill every available wall surface in the Stokes Croft-Jamaica Street area: Banksy (the most famous — the "Mild Mild West" teddy bear with the Molotov cocktail is on the Stokes Croft corner), Inkie (one of the most important Bristol-born graffiti artists: the co-founder of the "3D Wild Style" graffiti movement that was the most important influence on the Bristol street art scene in the 1980s), Nick Walker (the most technically accomplished of the Bristol street artists: the "Vandal" stencil series is the most commercially successful non-Banksy Bristol street art), and Eine (the East London-based street artist best known for the "shutter alphabet" works (the painted roller shutters of the East London shops with the individual letter stencils that form the most important alphabet of any UK street artist))): the PRSC (the People's Republic of Stokes Croft — the most important community arts organization in Bristol: the PRSC manages the community arts center, the gallery and the most important political art publications in Bristol).

Farewell Bristol evening (the most important craft beer city in the UK outside London — Bristol has the highest density of craft breweries per capita of any UK city outside London): the Small Bar (the most important craft beer bar in Bristol — the 100+ rotating taps with the most comprehensive craft beer selection in the southwest of England): the Left Handed Giant Brewing Co. (the most important Bristol craft brewery: the Large Format cans of the most technically accomplished Bristol craft beers — the "Left Handed Giant" Session IPA (the most popular craft beer in Bristol) and the "Left Handed Giant" Stout (the most awarded Bristol stout)): the Wiper & True (the most celebrated Bristol craft brewery: the W&T "Kaleidoscope" pale ale (the most celebrated Bristol pale ale: the most complex dry-hopped pale ale in the SW of England) and the W&T "Rainbow Dream" (the most innovative Bristol craft beer: the fruit sour ale with the most complex berry and citrus character)): the West Country cider (the Thatcher's Gold, the Orchard Pig or the local farmhouse cider from the most important Somerset artisan producers): the Bristol music scene (the most important music city in England after London and Manchester: the birthplace of the "Bristol Sound" (the "trip-hop" music genre: Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky — the most important trip-hop artists of the 1990s — all from Bristol: the most important UK music genre of the 1990s after Britpop)).