He could have been referring to the fact it looked too blue. Like the photos which make Brid Bay look like it is join the Mediterranean. Being serious, it is a reason why it is difficult to replicate centres like that in Hull. That centre inPortsmouth is on the side of a river which enables lots of small boats to potter about in and not far from the sea.The River Hull iscacstream and the Humber a fast flowing tidal estuary 20 miles from the sea. Was in Gloucester earlier this year. Really good, immaculately clean centre there. Gloucester is only half the size of Hull but it was larger than anything here. A row of restaurants and cafe bars next door all open until late. Other shopping centres and another 2 being built. Plus the smaller shops in the older part nearer the cathedral. Not interested in shopping, I find a cafe and leave the wife to it, but she was impressed and preferred it to Leeds city centre as well.(Noticed Gloucester rugby union club shop, far more impressive than ours or tge 2 rugby clubs ones). What was most impressive was round the canal area. It had the widest canal in the country linking it up with the River Severn. When it fell into disuse in the 1980s they set about renovating the area. An larger marina than e have with some very impressive boats in it, barges used as restaurants and for pleasure trips. Most impressive was how the warehouses had all been turned into apartments with open spaces beneath them with more bars and restaurants. In the meanwhile a debate still rages decades on about what to do with the Lord Line building.
Impressive building. Like most things built by councils went way over the budget they had got an EU grant for. I was on holiday in the New Forest a couple of years ago when it was announced the Emirates Airlinecwas sponsoring it and wanted to paint in their colours which are red. Itvwasclike WW3 had broken out. None of the apathy and they are paying so can please themselves you get in our media. Petitions and outrage. It is of course now blue. Southampton folk had great fun texting in asking if they were going to repaint the fire engines blue so as not to upset the delicate Pompey folk. So you can imagine the uproar when they proposed changing Portsmouth FC's badge, which is the city one. Again it remains the same.
Just a reminder, on BBC2 at 9.00pm tonight, it's The Blitz: The Bomb's That Changed Britain, about Hull.
Well, my cousin lives there and says you can go somewhere for a far lot longer than you can here. Always somewhere open. Not necessarily selling alcohol. Bars are only open from 8am to 4am so you have a full 4 hours where you can't have a drink. But always shops, cafes and places to eat if you want. A bit better than here.
I've spent a fair bit of time in New York and it's far harder getting a drink there in a morning than it is here, most places don't open until noon. I was there during a World Cup and outside of a couple of dedicated sports bars, there were no bars open to show morning games and if they were Sunday mornings you were really knackered, as they can't serve alcohol anywhere on a Sunday morning. There's obviously a lot of places open late in New York, but if it's all day and night drinking you're after, then London is a far better option.
London residents don't rate their nightlife too highly. How many capitals have bemused tourists in the centre finding someone telling them they can't have another drink as it is the late hour of 11pm?
And plenty more that open around 3-4am. But hey, let's not allow facts to detract from a robotic rant!
