Made in Hull isn't the fireworks event, that's called In With a Bang. But anyway, I think Made in Hull is a pretty generic phrase, it didn't even cross my mind that it was similar to Made in Chelsea.
Need to get your sens down to viccy square and see this fellas. Very impressive. There's a part recreating the blitz. Sounds of the bombs, images of the distruction. All very evocative trying to imagine this went on for real in that very square.
Some friends of mine from USA are here. When I drove into the City yesterday, having told them all about the COC thing, they said... 'in the States we'd have had a huge billboard saying, Welcome to Hull City of Culture 2017'..'.. they're right, the one main road into the City has absolutely no reference to the fact....!!!!!!..plus ERYCC don't give a toss, their bit of CSW is covered in **** as usual... thats unless they have cleaning teams out today...
They've put up new City limits signs that proclaim the City of Culture. Your friends need to be more observant.
The slack bastards say it's finished but it most certainly isn't, there's material stuck up between the gaps all over and vast swathes of grouting that still needs to be done (if they're actually going to bother that is).
One of the million or so reasons I like this city is that it is not a poncey one. All over Europe and beyond, you can find manicured quaint 'old town' areas of cities that have been gentrified, cleaned up and made orderly. The same goes for ports and waterside areas. Hull is still a live port, with stuff coming in and going out on a daily basis, palleted up, clingfilmed up, wrapped up, boxed up. Moved on and off ships and freight trains, in and out of containers and onto lorries etc. All this right next to a massive tidal estuary that is very breezy at least 364 days out of 365. Stuff gets blown around because trade and work is going on, just as it has done by the river in Hull since the Old Town got built and we had Queens Dock, Princes Dock, Humber Dock and Railway Dock. Unsightly it may be, but we are not spick and span white collar Beverley. God forbid that we should ever become a 'heritage'-dependent York or Harrogate type place in a bid to attract the undiscerning punters.
Hamburg no. Most northerly Gothenburg and Malmo Most southerly Naples or Napoli as the locals insist on calling it. I must say the locals in Campania can only dream of a road as clean as the CSW
Not real, working places like Hull, are they, all poncey and gentrified.. Can't comment on Gothenburg as haven't been there. Can add Bremen and Antwerp. Sorry, but would rather sample the delights of those places for a weekend than Hull. Or any other city in this country.
