.: Kingston upon Hull :.

The University of Hull is located in the city of Kingston upon Hull, and this past weekend a couple of friends and I took a day to check out the city. We went to the tourist office and they gave us a map called a fish trail. There are different kinds of fish that are imprinted into the sidewalks all over the city center in downtown Hull, and if you use the map to follow the trail, you are able to see most of downtown. It took us a while to find the anchovies, but after that we were on our way. We passed by a lot of interesting places that I hope we get to go back and visit sometime (e.g. the William Wilberforce museum and the aquarium). For lunch we ate at a pub called Ye Olde White Hart. It is one of themost famous pubs in Hull; there isa bar downstairs and a restaurant upstairs. There was a woman who was murdered in one of the rooms, so after the building was discovered, her skull was artfully displayed above the bar.

One unique thing about Hull is that all of the telephone booths are white instead of

red because the city of Hull had its own telephone company.

It is fun to see so many old buildings and architecture that is so different than home. I think they have an appreciation for history here that is not as strong at home in the States. Granted, the United States is only a couple hundred years old, but it is refreshing to see so much value put into

history.