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good morning internet welcome to royal clarence well i made it to hull and back and i'm here to tell the tale um what can i tell you well first of all i think it was really really interesting the north south divide in the uk now i know most of my listeners are in america but and i hope you've heard of the united kingdom i'm sure you have we're supposed to be really good friends um and i've you know i have met people who i've said i when i lived in brighton i remember meeting a wonderful american a young american man who was um bestowing gifts upon me
actually we went to vail i didn't go to vail with him i was going to vale with somebody else and i met this chap because my colleague well he was a boyfriend actually he was skiing and i didn't take to the snow i have actually had one of the worst holidays of my life in vail i had a near-death experience on the skis trying to do the plow and ended up on a ridge and people were just screaming because i was heading for the ridge unfortunately gravity uh caused me to stop but it was only gravity that did that it was nothing to do with what i was doing with my feet my coordination on skis is absolutely dismal and i was surprised i was so bad at it and i
looked so gorgeous because i spent a lot of money on my suit it was pink anyway um this uh this young man was um chatting me up for a wonderful better phrase and uh let me just turn this mic down a little there we go it's a bit better um he was chatting me up and um he brought he was buying me cupcakes and things and he he worked at vail um in one of the bars or somewhere i can't remember but we were in another bar or breakfast room or something anyway blah blah blah but he had all these freebies t-shirts and wonderful things he was giving me all these uh freebies that he that was sort of um merchandise that they give to
guests and um he'd asked where i was from and i said brighton and he said oh that's in france um but of course you it's easy to make that sort of mistake isn't it um brighton in case you don't know is in england anyway i went to hull which is i guess uh five maybe 500 miles four yeah 500 miles from where i live i think maybe 400 i should get my bearings really but but there's this big joke in this country that we don't um if you're a southerner you don't know anything about anything north of watford and watford is in london and they say watford because one point when this saying first arose watford was actually the farthest point of
london now watford's you know no longer london is much more extended now beyond watford but anyway um i know very little about anything north of watford um and it was really intriguing to uh to understand why we just don't get the same information we're not told about anything and i remembered that i thought hull was very um uh dark for some reason i had this idea that it was a very dark dismal place with which lacked culture of course i was very very wrong i mean i was going to an art event so it was obvious i was going to be wrong and i knew that but i'd known a friend who'd gone to whole university this is about 30 years ago and he
he told me these things about hull you see and they've stuck with me ever since anyway once you get you have to go to london so i had to get the ferry go across on the ferry and then i had to um grab a train i had to do all these changes especially on the way back i had to get a bus for part of the journey on the way back because the there was engineering works anyway um should i say there were engineering works oh my diction goodness me anyway um i'd i had to go to king's cross so it was a tube train tube la la la and i'd take my granny trolley because i thought that would be easier to carry it and it it sort of was but there were an awful lot of steps because some of the tube trains tube stations in the undergrounds and the overgrounds didn't have escalators so i had to carry the granny trolley...
actually we went to vail i didn't go to vail with him i was going to vale with somebody else and i met this chap because my colleague well he was a boyfriend actually he was skiing and i didn't take to the snow i have actually had one of the worst holidays of my life in vail i had a near-death experience on the skis trying to do the plow and ended up on a ridge and people were just screaming because i was heading for the ridge unfortunately gravity uh caused me to stop but it was only gravity that did that it was nothing to do with what i was doing with my feet my coordination on skis is absolutely dismal and i was surprised i was so bad at it and i
looked so gorgeous because i spent a lot of money on my suit it was pink anyway um this uh this young man was um chatting me up for a wonderful better phrase and uh let me just turn this mic down a little there we go it's a bit better um he was chatting me up and um he brought he was buying me cupcakes and things and he he worked at vail um in one of the bars or somewhere i can't remember but we were in another bar or breakfast room or something anyway blah blah blah but he had all these freebies t-shirts and wonderful things he was giving me all these uh freebies that he that was sort of um merchandise that they give to
guests and um he'd asked where i was from and i said brighton and he said oh that's in france um but of course you it's easy to make that sort of mistake isn't it um brighton in case you don't know is in england anyway i went to hull which is i guess uh five maybe 500 miles four yeah 500 miles from where i live i think maybe 400 i should get my bearings really but but there's this big joke in this country that we don't um if you're a southerner you don't know anything about anything north of watford and watford is in london and they say watford because one point when this saying first arose watford was actually the farthest point of
london now watford's you know no longer london is much more extended now beyond watford but anyway um i know very little about anything north of watford um and it was really intriguing to uh to understand why we just don't get the same information we're not told about anything and i remembered that i thought hull was very um uh dark for some reason i had this idea that it was a very dark dismal place with which lacked culture of course i was very very wrong i mean i was going to an art event so it was obvious i was going to be wrong and i knew that but i'd known a friend who'd gone to whole university this is about 30 years ago and he
he told me these things about hull you see and they've stuck with me ever since anyway once you get you have to go to london so i had to get the ferry go across on the ferry and then i had to um grab a train i had to do all these changes especially on the way back i had to get a bus for part of the journey on the way back because the there was engineering works anyway um should i say there were engineering works oh my diction goodness me anyway um i'd i had to go to king's cross so it was a tube train tube la la la and i'd take my granny trolley because i thought that would be easier to carry it and it it sort of was but there were an awful lot of steps because some of the tube trains tube stations in the undergrounds and the overgrounds didn't have escalators so i had to carry the granny trolley...
