Hull, 29th Septepmber

8.30
Tremendous Premier Inn breakfast. I go for one of everything to make sure I make the most out of it.

9.30
Go to Starbucks to take advantage of free wifi advertised. On application I learn you need a card to access internet. It costs £5. Maybe I got mixed up when I was at school, but as far as I know, THAT’S NOT FREE.

10.30
Spend the day searching fruitlessly around Sheffield. Literally nothing for sale or let.

13.30
Disastrous meal in Cafe Rouge. Have glass of champagne though, so salvageable. We are in Ecclstal road, which is supposed to be the vibrant student barry area. It is somewhere between Unthank Road and Ilford High Street. Not a bar in sight.

14.15
Head to Hull

14.40
Drive past Humber Bridge. It’s fucking enormous!

14.55
Check into second Premier Inn. It’s in the middle of an industrial estate.

15.30
Head into Hull. It seems to be populated entirely by cheap old-man boozers. We walk past a pub selling £1.30 pints. There really is no-where decent in the centre of the city. I ask a girl in the place we eventually eat, and apparently it gets busy every Wednesday when the Casablanca Boys play at the Mint. They have been playing there every week for the last forty years. “They write their own material and all”.

Since there is absolutely nowhere inviting to drink in the city we decide to walk to the student area – normally pointless because they aren’t vibrant enough to support a late night club, but we can’t stand the thought of drinking in town.

Surprisingly we discover that this is the main drinking area in Hull. There are some very nice bars, and a couple of late night places round the corner. This is evidently where the students spend their time and money. Having asked a few people, the middle of town is solely inhabited by scummers and cunts. Very strange. I suppose it probably has something to do with the fact that hull is semi-circular, and only has residential areas on one side of the ‘centre’, the other being cut off by the Humber.

There is nowhere to let or for sale. Lovely place, but an absolute no go.