Sophie did everything to make us feel welcome. There was wine, milk, chocolate, and other stuff. The flat was tidied up and clean, it was like coming home in a different city.
The city itself is really great. The apartment is half-way up the hill to Clifton suburb, which is lively, full of shops, restaurants, bakeries, cafés, pubs, etc. There are parks and there is the Clifton Suspension Bridge really close by, maybe a walk of 1 km (0.6 mi.). Down the hill, there is the river and the possibility to take a ferry boat to the city centre (and the bus, of course). Going round by car is also very easy (but maybe there wasn’t much traffic because of school holidays?).
All in all, we can only recommend this experience. We liked Bristol, Clifton, and Sophie’s flat. We definitely would come back.