Success comes to Hull

I was not born in Hull, but have lived here for 19 years. My 3 teenage kids have grown up in the city and consider themselves from 'ull. The City does have serious problems in term of povety, education and unemployment, but the people are incredibly friendly and proud of their city. Yesterday's triumph and entry into Premiership is incredibly good news for the city - it is not just the £60m (which will probably stay within the Football team) but the huge amount of the money playing in the Premiership will bring to the City. Hull will also be centre of the Clipper Ship racing in 2009, which brings further funding to help fight the City's issues.
Today the city will wake up with the biggest community hangover ever, the celebratory scenes in the city were like an Italian city on a night Italy won the World cup. Tomorrow there will be 11 mile round the city bus ride for the victorius team and a civic reception - so the party will continue !
And what does this have to do with travel I hear you say- well wherever I travel in the world I always seem to meet Alumni from the Hull University - To a person they all say what a great time they had in Hull & at the University, and how the friendly city was. I note Tracey Crouch is one of the gang. I hope they are all as proud of the City as we are this morning and its favourite son Dean Windass and his "Roy of the Rovers" winning goal......