It looks ok but when push comes to shove they'll never recreate that weather they're portraying in the pic.
I'm all for this positivity about Hull, it's long overdue but... They need some more litter pickers in the city centre. On my lunch break yesterday, large parts of town resembled a landfill. It's simply solved, and just not good enough if we're really trying to big ourselves up now, and with the culture thing on the horizon. Still tonnes of empty shops too, as soon as one gets filled, another empties. Little things like this make an instant impact on the eye. Whitewashed windows and swirling Kit Kat wrappers does not a good impression make. I'm sure we'll get it right.
I hate it when people do that. Of course it's your opinion, it's a ****ing messageboard. Who else's opinion is it going to be - Zeinab Badawi's?
The only things Scotland has to offer are miserable weather, lots of nothingness and heroin addicts. France and Brazil are the places to be this year. And the Algarve in July.
tbf France might be worth a visit this year, due to it being 100 years since WW1 started. The Thiepval Memorial in particular. EDIT: Hat beat me to it.
If were going over to France in large numbers we should just conquer it. Take all their cheese n wine, kill the men before they have chance to surrender and ravish the women. We've been putting it off for ages.
For reasons that escape me, they've listed some places as cities and some as countries, but if you look at the actual article, it's Washington that they're recommending.
I haven't seen any litter pickers for ages... I'm guessing they've all been cut with the cuts?! ...that said, last time I was in Leeds there was litter everywhere, so it isn't just a local problem. As for empty shops, there is a complete catch-22 scenario - locals keep going to York, Leeds and Meadowhall because Hull doesn't have what they need. The shops selling the things that they need don't open here because the shoppers go elsewhere. Chicken and egg situation. The council and HullBID etc need to work together with developers/landlords to create something appealing to attract certain retailers that Hull doesn't have.
My son went late last year and enjoyed himself, though he was on a history tour(he went to Atlanta, Birmingham and Montgomery too).
As we all know there is goodHull and badHull. Ate long last goodHull has had a look in with COC017. However, badHull remains as always. (The type of people who chant 'City of Culture, we know what we are' every ****ing week). Obese, scruffy folk in TOP4 replica shirts accepting appalling governance from Steve Brady and friends, being dumbed down by the HDM, patronised by Mudbank, living in poor housing and with a very low collective self esteem.You know the rest. The worry is that we all think the battle is won and everything is somehow OK. It isn't.
Its a city with no culture. Its transiant in nature as no one really lives there. Everyone cummutes in from Virginia and Maryland and most who work there are either from those 2 states or are from somewhere else in the US and moved there after school. It has no nightlife, no good bars, mainly because no one really lives there. Since it isnt its on place really it has nothing that is unique about it. A big US city that is almost oposite is New Orleans, they have their own food, cluture, architecture, dialect, music etc. That is a place that everyone would put first. DC does have some museums and buildings people like to take photos infront of but if you want to experience the US you would just visit your own museums and leave DC to the lobyists and hill workers. Cities arnt for me but if I had to plan a trip that involved a city to someone from the UK I would recomend a combo trip. Fly into San Francisco get your city on, then drive up into the wine country or the costal highway. Fly into San Francisco drive south hitting all the famous beaches and surf spots and then fly out of LA. You could fly into San Francisco and go to Tahoe to get your sking on and then go west into Yosemite to see the valley and the giant sequias. Denver then sking then drive north into Wyoming and see Yellowstone. You could fly into New Orleans and then travel the gulf coast afterwards and fly out of Miami after relaxing at whatever florida beach you wanted. You could fly into New York and then travel north into Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. DC really is a nothing place full of assinine people who only care where you work, who you know on the hill and all of whom are dreaming of the day they get to quit and move back to wherever they are from. Avoid it like the plague or stay a day or two and then go to someplace that is more representative of the country you are visiting. I have been to Alabama and it isnt a bad place. Hopefully they took him up to Gettysburg before they drove south.
