Another Visit To Hull

I need to book my days out with Siobhan a couple of weeks in advance and so I'm always taking a chance with the weather. Today it was sunshine and showers, so I needed to go somewhere with plenty of indoor attractions - and Hull was my choice. The city has four free museums and the wonderful Ferens Art Gallery, and it's the UK City of Culture 2017.

As usual we stopped en route at a pretty village to eat our sandwiches; today it was Welton.

We spent most of our time at Hull exploring the Marina, the Waterside and the Old Town areas. We popped into the Streetlife Museum during a particularly heavy shower and visited the art gallery on our way back to the car park.

On the way home we called at the cafe at the California Gardens Garden Centre at Howden for tea and  scones.

Humber Bridge Country Park and Howden

Today I went out for the day with my support walker again and ended up doing a short walk through the Humber Bridge Country Park and along the foreshore at Hessle...and then a look round the charming little town of Howden.

The day didn't go as intended, but turned out far better than expected though. The weather forecast was for heavy showers in the afternoon, but fine until about one o'clock. The plan was to go and have a look round the museums and art gallery at Hull, first stopping at the Humber Bridge to eat our sandwiches. The weather stayed fine all day and we were so impressed with the views of the bridge, the country park, and the foreshore that we stayed for a couple of hours at Hessle, probably seeing about half of the country park and walking half a mile or so along the foreshore. The walking was very easy, apart for climbing down some rather overgrown steps and needing to walk through a partially flooded underpass where sandbags had been positioned to act as stepping stones.

By the time we'd arrived back at the car there wasn't enough time left to go into Hull; the art gallery and museums would have to wait for a rainy day. We decided to head back towards Doncaster, but stop off on the way in Howden. We were hungry and in need of refreshment and so had tea and a large slice of apple pie at the California Gardens garden centre. The food was rather expensive, but I reckon the apple pie was the best I've ever had. I wish we'd gone straight into town though, the Women's Institute was serving tea and cakes inside the minster - much cheaper and a far wider choice of cake....and a very impressive location.