https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/best-of-the-world-2026/article/hull-yorkshire-england The full national geographic article Sounds a great place to visit. Sometimes you don't realise what you've got and good to see it through someone else's eyes Flour and Feast and Dirty Harry's are very good. I get more boring than usual and very nostalgic in Humber St. Going on about the different firms, the characters and being a kid running messages from the office to my dad who was a commision agent in Humber St. No such thing as mobile phone just me sprinting up and down the street with a bit of paper. See I said I was boring
After seeing on DIY SOS what they did in 9 days to transform a house for the family of a small lad with an awful, life limiting disability, it might be a good idea for HCC to call them in to do any refurbishments.
I agree I’ve said it before but I’d recommend doing the Maritime walking tour. Completely free and allow you to see the city as a tourist. Well worth a couple of hours and you’ll probably learn something you either didn’t know or you’d forgotten
Add to that a guided tour of Trinity House. I paid £5 for one the last time it was advertised and you get an information booklet with that. The place is amazing, they even have Captain Cooks original maps in there. I cannot recommend the Trinity House tour highly enough even if you only have a passing interest in the maritime history of Hull.
Agreed I’ve been lucky enough to be shown round a few times, and I think they usually open on Heritage Days (which lots of other places do too. It’s worth checking out the full programme)
Eastern Airways, who primarily operate out of Humberside Airport, have gone bust. All flights cancelled, all staff laid off and all planes returned to the leasing companies, very bad news for the airport.
They moved oil and gas workers between the hubs at Humberside and Aberdeen, but I'm pretty sure the actual transport to the rigs, windfarms etc, are helicopter operators that aren't affected.
Bad? Yep I mean none of us will be able to get flights out of there to Spain Portugal etc anymore Oh wait….
Never used the place, when I used to fly a lot for work there never was a good option to get any where from there. To make it worse now I believe the bus service has stopped going there, so you have to get someone to drop you off in a car, get a taxi, go in your own car and leave it at the airport.
My sister is a hostess there. They fly premier league and championship clubs all over too. Not that it mattered to her, she didn't know who any of them were.
Maybe they can hike up the energy bills a bit to help subsidise alternative travel? I couldn't believe my last couple of bills.
I emailed Highways England, before the Leicester match, asking if the junction from Lowgate to Myton Bridge would be open for eastbound traffic, it wasn't. The ****ers should have had that section finished months ago, thereby easing traffic after City night games. Also frig knows who decided to make the section of road near Queens Gardens a bus gate while Drypool Bridge is repaired, don't hold your breath on it reopening to cars when repairs are done either. The council say you get a warning letter of you drive through it, second time it's a fine, my letter is in the post!
Very bad for the airport. I imagine Richard will still have enough cash to fly his spitfire out of there though… Tbh I’m not sure what they do, but anything reducing income for the airport is a bad thing. Having said that I do think more should be made of how easy it is to fly KLM out of there to nearly anywhere in the world with one change in Schiphol. Getting the bus route from Hull open again would help I’d think, although it’s only 15mins from the bridge if you get someone to drop you off
If people are complaining about how hard it is to get there then no wonder it’s failing ! Some people who would drive to Manchester pay to park get on a shuttle bus and work the way through that terrible airport . I did Humbs to Schipol to Italy same price as going direct from. LBA and MCR , got off at 7 pm was home at 8 a few weeks ago . I hope it survives .
It's bad enough going through 1 airport on the way to somewhere never mind choosing to go through 2!! (and the stress of making connections etc). Done enough of that during my work travel days. I'm looking forward to Robin Hood reopening.
