Introduction
In February, my mum visited Hull (where she comes from), to celebrate both her birthday and the fact that Hull is UK City of Culture 2017. She and Dad were there for several days to catch the culture, but we (myself and R) joined her just for the weekend.
I went to Hull lots of times as a child when we visited my grandparents; I think it's a great place because it has derelict industrial buildings, two very muddy rivers, and some really tall chimneys. R has never been before and has a more negative opinion, albeit for almost exactly the same reasons.
Saturday
As well as wandering around Hull city centre a little, we met up with my parents and my brother and sister-in-law and their children, and saw several interesting free museums.
We were meeting up for dinner, but took a stroll beforehand around the pier area as it got dark.
Hotel room
We were staying in the Premier Inn (as you can probably tell, we really splashed out on this trip). We got a room very high up and the views were fantastic, or at least I thought so.
Sunday
On Sunday we went to see The Deep, which is basically a very big aquarium inside some very fancy architecture. It’s located on Sammy’s Point, which is another plus.
The Deep has a café with a viewing platform where you can look out over the River Humber.
That’s all from me. Just by the way, if you’d like to see some pictures of Hull from the early 1980s, you could look at my dad’s Hull Photos website; he’s posting a new photo every day this year.