(10 Dec 2017, 5:18 pm)S813 FVK wrote Or even Coventry?
I have never had any desire to go there, and being the next City of Culture won't change that, especially having being to Hull this year and seen nothing but a couple of street acts and walked around the maritime museum which was free (along with other museums) for the year. Everything is just theatre performances which would happen anyway with a more 'cultural' theme than normal.
In return, the people of Hull had their city centre pretty much barricaded off in a cheerful shade of orange for a year while tasks as supposedly straightforward as laying new paving were continually cocked up.