What is the weirdest place you have visited?

John Doe1

I went on a weekend trip to Kilkenny a while ago and within 3 days witnessed:

A bus driver start mumbling to himself as we got off the bus.

An odd looking fellow stare at me and make a noise like a bark on the street.

A women with a dog punch another women with a dog in the afternoon, the dogs then started growling at each other.

Lovely architecture though

CINCLANTFLT

Boards.ie !!!

131spanner

Dundrum Town Centre. It's weird seeing a 15 year old with more disposable income than you.

darkdubh

John Doe1 wrote: »

I went on a weekend trip to Kilkenny a while ago and within 3 days witnessed:

• A bus driver start mumbling to himself as we got off the bus.

• An odd looking fellow stare at me and make a noise like a bark on the street.

• A women with a dog punch another women with a dog in the afternoon, the dogs then started growling at each other.

Lovely architecture though

Kilkenny is no stranger than anywhere else in the country.Have been there several times, the last time when we were coming out of the Train Station this very elderly man,he must have been nearly 90 said to us "I suppose you don't believe in Jesus Christ?".Theres also this skinhead scummer of a guy who goes around the town with a huge husky type dog randomly getting stuck in people and threatening to set the dog on them.Any Kilkenny people here know what the deal is with him?

HAMMERCURRENT

A Hollister shop.

Graces7

the slate quarry on valentia island...never again...the people there all look like aliens too....

Sauve

Nimbin.
Never seen anything like it.

Pumpkinseeds

Castletownbere, about 14 years ago. We stayed in a small awful hotel then switched to a B&B. When we got to the B&B the chap said his wife was at a funeral but invited us in. We felt really uncomfortable and we were shown upstairs to our room, past lots of church sized religious statues. It was too bizarre to go into much detail.

I think it was a statue of St Martin, some black saint anyway, that was outside our bedroom door. The mass times were on the back of the door and the bed springs were of a type that sounded like you were having a bacchanalian orgy if you so much as turned over in the bed.

It was a bit of a disaster all in all, so we cancelled our holiday, flew back to England and went to stay at my mother in laws weekend place in Lincolnshire. Long story short, we ended up getting engaged in Lincolnshire, so it wasn't a total loss:)

Banjo String

Sauve wrote: »

Nimbin.
Never seen anything like it.

Yep.

I bought some, eh.... brownies There one fine afternoon.

Ate one later that evening in hostel. No effect on me.
Ate another one the next day and couldn't lift my head off my pillow. :eek:

Surreal place.

GerB40

Berlin. It's a nice city and the people are......okay I suppose. The folks we met is Resturaunts, bars etc. seemed to be way overly friendly. Most of them reminded me of Basil Fawlty (don't mention the war) which made our tour of the wall interesting to say the least..

We basically went for a píss up but realised it's a much more family orientated city, which is grand, we'll know for future reference...

In summary, nice city, beautiful beer, very efficient transport system (obviously) and people who are very different than the Irish. Take from that what you will.

Madam

Musee de l'Erotisme - Paris;)

Lou.m

John Doe1 wrote: »

I went on a weekend trip to Kilkenny a while ago and within 3 days witnessed:

A bus driver start mumbling to himself as we got off the bus.

An odd looking fellow stare at me and make a noise like a bark on the street.

A women with a dog punch another women with a dog in the afternoon, the dogs then started growling at each other.

Lovely architecture though

I can confirm Kilkenny is odd.

The place we went to have this huge giant cross in a field. (No church) It blocked all mobile signals for miles. Residents refuse to remove it. We tried to stay at a B&B i had a male mate (i'm a girl) we were told we would have to get separate rooms. We were just mates ...but like COME ON!

The house we ended up staying in had electricity in only half the house and the bathroom was not finished.

RDM_83 again

Karosta in Latvia had a weird atmosphere both empty and dicey at the same time, its an old Soviet 'secret' military town/naval base with a big Orthodox Cathedral in it.

Wouldn't count it as visiting but in the 2000's flew into a Ryanair airport in Germany that was literally just being built in an old English Airforce base, strange stepping out of hilariously basic the temporary terminal into Germany and seeing old style English red street stuff and all the signs in English.

blastman

Coober Pedy, Austalia is pretty surreal. Most people live underground and there's a grave in the local cemetery with a tapped keg as a headstone......

Birneybau

Carlow.

fathead82

Sauve wrote: »

Nimbin.
Never seen anything like it.

The hens walking around the street & the museum full of random sh1t were the highlights for me.strange place.

Alf. A. Male

The inside of John Malkovich's head.

FTA69

GerB40 wrote: »

We basically went for a píss up but realised it's a much more family orientated city, which is grand, we'll know for future reference...

If you can't manage a raucous p*ss up in Berlin there is something terribly astray.

Davarus Walrus

FTA69 wrote: »

If you can't manage a raucous p*ss up in Berlin there is something terribly astray.

Absolutely. There is no other capital city where the ability to have a weekend of pure degeneracy and excess is so available. Even Amsterdam can't compare. And Berlin is a far finer city.

zetalambda

The inside of a northside Dubliners head.

cournioni

Some places in Northern Ireland can be quite odd. The people are generally nice but some tend to take a good bit of their time assessing whether you're a threat to them or not. It ends up being quite odd and awkward for a bit.

seiphil

Medyka. Border between Poland and Ukraine.

Mad place. Had to pass through it a few years back and tourists are not advised to walk through. Good god where they right. People charging through and fighting each other non-stop. Took us about 3 and a half hours to get through.

Once we got to the otherside (Ukraine) we were then followed by "taxi-men" while looking for a bus to Lviv. Buses were stopped at that time and the "taxi-men" began to get very aggressive with us for not wanting to use their service.

We eventually bribed a bus driver to get us outta there. Seemed like a real lawless place and would not have liked to spend much longer there.

Actually when we were in Lviv we had a gun pulled on us in a hotel because we didn't want to go to this party in the middle of nowhere. So yea. Mad spots!

GerB40

FTA69 wrote: »

If you can't manage a raucous p*ss up in Berlin there is something terribly astray.

Oh we managed it alright, just felt uncomfortable in most places we went. We're by no means scumbags but 1 or 2 of the lads started acting the bollíx every night so we were basically never too far from a bouncer or two..

We made it clear to the boys we wouldn't go as far as to the shop with them again let alone out foreign.. Clowns.

iDave

Russia. Cant go anywhere without someone telling you what to do/where to stand etc

The One Doctor

Sopot, Bulgaria and north inner city Dublin. I hate both flippin' places, but at least Sopot had cheap beer and lots of sun.

orangesoda

Sandy Row Belfast. whilst the big man with the gun stared down at me from the painting I had to walk over broken glass and used condoms

anto9

Savanaket ,Laos by a mile .Asked an elderly Pharmacist ( after he had already vastly over charged me for what I bought ) the way to the towns one and only bus station . He says its 2 km aprox to the right of his Shop ,he thinks ( HE HAS PROBALY LIVED HIS WHOLE LIFE THERE AND HE IS NOT SURE LOL ) .Turns out it was 1 km to the left .What a kunt as I walked 2 km in the extreme heat of 40 c in the wrong direction ,

Plazaman

Douglas on The Isle of Man. I know it's a big enough island but there has to be some inbreeding going on. And either there is only one dentist on the entire island or none as the amount of people (including cracking looking women) with missing teeth or bad teeth.

Paddle faster, I hear banjos.

anto9

^ Heard its great during the TT though .

Naydy

I’m not very well travelled outside of Ireland . In Ireland though, the weirdest place I’ve been is probably Oweynagat (Cave of the Cats). Went with a big group during a heatwave a few years ago. You wouldn’t guess how big it is when you look at the tiny little entrance, but it’s huge and once we were inside it was freezing, pitch-black and there was sticky watery mud up past our ankles.
We got a fair bit into the cave but then one of the lads shone his torch into a type of alcove where some pagan type had built an “altar”. Basically a strangled chicken, a small pot of what we think was blood, some coloured string and some sort of clay phallic-looking things. We’d been to other caves and passages tombs before and you see offerings all the time. But this was pretty gruesome and one person who was terrified of birds started screaming the place down when she saw the chicken, the echos were unbelievable.
There was a weird feeling about the whole place because of the claustrophobia, darkness and especially the cold and wet after it being so hot outside. And the altar/horribly echoed screaming was kinda the last straw so we turned back after that .

GenieOz

Plazaman wrote: »

Douglas on The Isle of Man. I know it's a big enough island but there has to be some inbreeding going on. And either there is only one dentist on the entire island or none as the amount of people (including cracking looking women) with missing teeth or bad teeth.

Paddle faster, I hear banjos.

Hey :mad:
No dissing Douglas.

It is an awful shíthole the majority of the year though.

MS.ing

the mustard forum

username123

Moate.

Driving from Galway to Dublin, raging hangovers, stopped in Moate for a spot of lunch. Pulled up outside this grand looking establishment advertising that they did luncheon and in we went.

Like stepping back in time. All 4 people in the pub turned and stared at us and then a green haired girl came out from behind the counter and asked what we wanted. We said we'd like a spot of lunch and and she said that the options were ham, cheese, ham and cheese, toasted or untoasted. We all ordered ham and cheese toasted and she opened the till, took out a 20 pound note, left the pub and went across the road to a newsagent, came back in with a sliced pan, a packet of ham and a packet of easi singles and disappeared into the back.

Morto at this point (we'd really been hoping for a slap up carvery lunch) we waited while the locals scrutinised us. When the toasties came they were grand but every eye in that place was glued to us as we ate them in silence.

Weird town.

gugleguy

Online: People's Republic Of Cork.
It out - does the weirdest physical place 'be been to by quit a bit.
boards.ie is comparatively friendly neighborhood in comparison.

like comparing the GTA game series (people's republic of cork)with the likes of the Sims,(boards.ie) .

orangesoda

gugleguy wrote: »

Online: People's Republic Of Cork.
It out - does the weirdest physical place 'be been to by quit a bit.
boards.ie is comparatively friendly neighborhood in comparison.

like comparing the GTA game series (people's republic of cork)with the likes of the Sims,(boards.ie) .

I was on there once they were giving northern republicans a quare pashing, it confused me as are they not technically Cork republicans looking for a free cork?

losthorizon

The Penis Museum, Northern Iceland

Muahahaha

A few years back I went on the Trans Siberian railway across Russia, Mongolia and into China. In Moscow I went to see the preserved body of Lenin, then in Beijing the body of Chairman Mao. Then a while later in Vietnam I went to see the preserved body of Ho Chi Minh. It was at that stage I began questioning myself as to what the fcuk I was doing travelling the world going around looking at dead bodies.

wretcheddomain

Cork

losthorizon

Muahahaha wrote: »

A few years back I went on the Trans Siberian railway across Russia, Mongolia and into China. In Moscow I went to see the preserved body of Lenin, then in Beijing the body of Chairman Mao. Then a while later in Vietnam I went to see the preserved body of Ho Chi Minh. It was at that stage I began questioning myself as to what the fcuk I was doing travelling the world going around looking at dead bodies.

I visited Titos Mausoleum. Quite impressive. A serb asked me "why do you want to go and see that".

Boombastic

Sauve wrote: »

Nimbin.
Never seen anything like it.

along the same vein (with added tough guys) Christiana in Copenhagen. we 'found'it at night in the middle of winter, no street lights, hadn't a clue what was going on. mad place


llovely in the summer, great music etc

Muahahaha

Boombastic wrote: »

along the same vein (with added tough guys) Christiana in Copenhagen. we 'found'it at night in the middle of winter, no street lights, hadn't a clue what was going on. mad place


llovely in the summer, great music etc

I've never been to it but a Dane told me that a few years back the dope sellers on Pusher Street on Christiana Island were asked by the cops not to be so obvious selling their dope from stalls along the street, that there were tourists and kids about and would they kindly be a bit more discreet. So for the craic the next day all the dope sellers dressed up in army camouflage and covered their stalls with army camouflage netting. They still kept selling the dope though, it just wasn't as obvious as before

Seaneh

Valle Dele Sad in Ecuador, drove 4 hours on a highway, then 3 hours down a back road, then a ferry across a river and another 1 hour down a back road and reached a town that isn't on any maps, surrounded by palm plantations and jungle.
Ecuador is a funny place, the closest "big" town was El Carmen which not all that long ago wasn't on any maps either.


Saw the biggest spiders, snakes, rats and feral cats I've ever seen in my life in that place.

Ralf and Florian

Glengarriff's not strange by any means generally but it is home to Irelands worst restaurant.For proof check out the Tripadvisor reviews.


http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Restaurant_Review-g212093-d1870118-Reviews-Rainbow_Restaurant-Glengarriff_County_Cork.html

Celly Smunt

The isle of harris, its makes the isle of skye seem metropolitan.

John Doe1

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Glengarriff's not strange by any means generally but it is home to Irelands worst restaurant.For proof check out the Tripadvisor reviews.


http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Restaurant_Review-g212093-d1870118-Reviews-Rainbow_Restaurant-Glengarriff_County_Cork.html

“Stay away at all costs, starve if necessary!!”

Yeah, that is a bad review ....

Ralf and Florian

orangesoda wrote: »

I was on there once they were giving northern republicans a quare pashing, it confused me as are they not technically Cork republicans looking for a free cork?

A lot of those posts are down to about the same four people.Its riddled with alts.

snaphook

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

A lot of those posts are down to about the same four people.Its riddled with alts.

True. The same small group of users in the Langers Forum posting and arguing amongst themselves and in some cases with themselves, trying to pwn each other and get them rattled.

darkdubh

John Doe1 wrote: »

“Stay away at all costs, starve if necessary!!”

Yeah, that is a bad review ....

When reviews compare your restaurant to the The League Of Gentlemen then its really time to consider another career.

Rob094

Bruges was genuinely like going back in time, at least the part I stayed in. I loved it but it was undeniably weird at the same time.

beano345

fathead82 wrote: »

The hens walking around the street & the museum full of random sh1t were the highlights for me.strange place.

Camped in nimbin and we needed a jump start when we were leaving,the only tent nearby was this medi-evil looking tent so I walked up the doorway of it and let a shout in asking was anybody home,this fella came out of the tent like god long white beard,hair and long white robes.he gave us a jump start and seemed like a fairly normal bloke to talk too,and gave us a copy of his book.we laughed all the way down the coast at the absolute madness in this book,wish I knew were I left it.nimbin attracts some weirdos

siblers

Cavan town was kinda weird. It kinda felt like it was living in its own bubble. That fecking wagon wheel song was played in pretty much every pub on a loop. Each pub also seemed to have as many young wans as you would have old wans, like there was no such thing as an old man pub or no place that the young ones would go to, ever pub just seemed to have the same divide of young people as to old people. Went to some nightclub and it was absolute mayhem, i've never witnessed so many fights in one place yet the place didn't seem particularly unfriendly. When we'd tell a local we were from Kerry they'd start foaming at the mouth ready to talk about GAA. Weird but in a nice way I guess.