City Centre

We caught the bus into Hull city centre this morning.  On arrival we walked towards the riverfront, detouring through the Old Town and by Holy Trinity Church and coming past the statue of King Billy to arrive opposite The Deep.  We then wandered along the front past the Old pier area where the ferries used to run from, before the bridge, and past the Victorian loos and Minerva pub. The weather had cooled considerably and there was a very strong wind blowing from the river.  We went back to Victoria Square, via the marina, where we popped into Nero for a drink, Pret haven't not yet opened in the city.

Lunch was a Tesco takeaway mixture sitting in Victoria Square watching the kiddies run in and out of the random fountains laid out in the square.  After lunch we walked over to Ferens Art Gallery to see the see the on loan Anthony Van Dyck painting of Charles I, the exhibition of Kathe Kollwitz, very depressing, and Cezanne's The Card Players, also on loan.  We also looked around other galleries including the more modernist art, where I spotted this little girl pondering on the statue of a thin man. The extra is an office with reflective windows by Holy Trinity Church.