This whole marina area has massively changed since I was last here, there used to be fuck all but boats and warehouses but now there's all bars and restaurants and art galleries and shit. Pretty nice
The area as a whole isn't super busy tonight but some individual places are. The bar opposite me called "hygge" looks well minimalist and scandinavian but it's blasting cheesy as fuck music with disco lights and noisy drunks outside. You can change the aesthetic but you can't change the people eh
Main thing I've been doing today is exploring the city centre see what it's like these days Honestly it's kind of a mixed bag, decline in retail has left a lot of empty units & vape shops but there is cool independent stuff here and there, the market & the old shopping arcades are pretty good
I also went to the art gallery, that was cool. You can see lions painted by a 19th century french queer woman who had to get police permission to wear trousers
Rn I'm on princes avenue which always used to be a nice area & so far it still is. If I moved to hull I'd probably be living around here. I just had a really good pint from Atom & now I'm eating this
I had planned to explore a few of the other avenues in that avenues area but I got there pretty late & I was tired so I did not. I did check out some of the adjoining residential streets though in case I did end up moving there and they seem entirely fine and normal
I bought these earlier from a vendor in a lil market that had opened up in a unit of one of the shopping centres That was cool that's a good use for these spaces. More of that Also check out https://saddiscoclub.com if you want stuff like this
My train stopped at Stevenage & they made an announcement saying "to the passengers who just joined at Stevenage, this is a set down service only, we DO NOT pick up passengers at Stevenage" Fuck off Stevenage wankers I guess?? I've never encountered that before
@Rib Yeah no idea. I don't know if the rogue Stevenagers actually got off or not. Can't imagine they would've actively tried to kick them off if they didn't