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Most boring places you've visited

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While we're all reminiscing about places we'd like to go back to after COVID subsides, is there anywhere you've been to that you found totally forgettable?

My own contender is Hannover in Germany - stopped there once out of curiosity on the way from Amsterdam to Berlin and I was pretty familiar with the name from history etc. Apart from an impressive city hall, and some nice palace gardens outside the city (pretty modest by German standards though), it was basically just filled with shopping streets. A few Germans I've talked to since told me it's a big hub for people travelling around Germany by train, but there's pretty much nothing there. And like a lot of German cities, it's historic parts were gutted by bombing in the war, and only some reconstructed facades remain.

Closer to home, I was in Sligo for the first time about two years ago. The county is lovely (Ben Bulben, Strandhill etc.) but Sligo town is pretty unremarkable tbh. Not shockingly boring, but not very memorable either. Plenty of Midland towns have a reputation for being fairly forgettable as well, but then that's fairly well known. :pac:

Any other nominations?

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feargantae

NSAman wrote: »

Greeks are very selfish and don’t look after the environment around them...
Graffiti is a national obsession and it’s BAD graffiti. They clean up little apart from their own property and even then in the city they could care less cause some little ***k comes along and grafitti’s it.

Worked there and still do, imagine my joy when I found a Mexican and a Chinese within a week of each other, Greek food sucks ...oregano on fecking everything.

Man! The graffiti!! I completely forgot about alllllll that. It was everywhere. There's a difference between street art and graffiti and Athens was all graffiti, every building with a scribble on it or some Antifa/golden dawn cac. Even their trains were covered in the stuff. Don't even get me started on the greek notion that public transport should be free, refuse to pay the €1.20 (!!) ticket price and then complain how badly the whole system is run!

I actually lived there myself would ya believe.

Maybe that's why i dislike the place so much. Bad experiences and oregano crisps!! :pac:

gmisk

Zaney wrote: »

Derry - seems outwardly interesting, but place was far too quiet in the evening. Though better than Letterkenny which isn’t even interesting during the day.

Derry can be a bit hit and miss night life wise alright.
It is absolutely rocking at halloween normally, I use to go pretty regularly.

4Ad

Derby - hell
Most English cities-hell
Holyhead- God Help me
Airdrie- Is this kip a bad dream
Pattaya- Jesus Christ Help me
Croatia (just anywhere)

[Deleted User]

Id keep it to places outside the island of Ireland.

Lets say in Ireland you can round up a few buddies to have a bit of crack.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Next time I am over can I give you a shout?

Do you go often?

Tyrone212

Hamachi wrote: »

Really enjoyed Australia overall, but also experienced this. If one more gob****e said to me ‘it’s a bloody great country, isn’t it mate’, I wouldn’t have been responsible for my actions.

Found Australians a mixed bag. Some of them have quite strange notions about Irish people and are carrying around attitudes that died out in Britain in the 1970s.

I’m not a huge fan of mass immigration or multiculturalism in general, but I found some of the attitudes towards Asians repugnant. I actually intervened in a Sydney cafe when two young, good looking, blonde Australian girls were remorselessly belittling the middle-aged Asian waitress. Normally, I’d never involve myself in a situation like that, but I felt desperately sorry for the poor woman, whose English wasn’t terrific, but was trying her best.

I never really noticed much racism anywhere I've been in the world but Australia was a different planet in my experience. I'm not counting some anti Irish comments in that. Witnessed lots of occasions were Asian people were on the receiving end of it. It didn't even shock me anymore towards the end of my year there.

Zaney

Casablanca comes to mind. Faded grandeur. Lots of better places in Morocco though it is a few years since I went there.

gmisk

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Ha, Milan, forgot about that one (because it’s forgettable)

I just remember the people being extremely well dressed, and the galleria (amazing ornate shopping centre with food places) vaguely...but the food....get that ravioli and spaghetti in my face! But yeah can't really think of much to recommend it over other places in italy.

[Deleted User]

Deleted User wrote: »

Do you go often?

Id head again if it was good.

I was there in 2008, didnt think much of it.

What can you do during the day there?

I like the german beers not sure if Hamburg is a hotspot for that.

OOnegative

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The Hague is cat

Each to their own I suppose, I’m living in The Hague for the past 3.5 years and think it’s a great place to live and work.

Tyrone212

Zaney wrote: »

Derry - seems outwardly interesting, but place was far too quiet in the evening. Though better than Letterkenny which isn’t even interesting during the day.

Nightlife wise I find Letterkenny to be better but nothing special during the day that's for sure.

gmisk

Zaney wrote: »

Casablanca comes to mind. Faded grandeur. Lots of better places in Morocco though it is a few years since I went there.

Good gin joints though surely?!

[Deleted User]

OOnegative wrote: »

Each to their own I suppose, I’m living in Tge Hague for the past 3.5 years and think it’s a great place to live and work.

How about to visit though?

I find the dutch friendly etc but I thought the hague was a bit dull for a visit.

OOnegative

[Deleted User] wrote: »

How about to visit though?

I find the dutch friendly etc but I thought the hague was a bit dull for a visit.

Plenty to visit and see for a weekend, again it depends what interests you. Plus having the beach if the weather is good helps. Loads of very decent bars & restaurants around the city centre.

poisonated

Another one I found boring was Glasgow

[Deleted User]

OOnegative wrote: »

Plenty to visit and see for a weekend, again it depends what interests you. Plus having the beach if the weather is good helps. Loads of very decent bars & restaurants around the city centre.

0 craic when I was there.

Rotterdam and other cities in the netherlands are good

Charles Babbage

Indianapolis

[Deleted User]

Salzburg, another borefest

gmisk

poisonated wrote: »

Another one I found boring was Glasgow

It can be a bit grim looking alright especially compared to Edinburgh, but the nightlife can be really good in my experience and the people are pretty sound.

Zaney

poisonated wrote: »

Another one I found boring was Glasgow

I liked Glasgow, but then I had friends who live there who showed me around. Can well imagine it’s hard to navigate without local help.

4Ad

Barcelona, was expecting more,nice sights though.
Was in Tarragona before that, looks like a kip when you get off the train but a pleasant surprise.

Bratislava, jesus.
Llandudno, home of the inbreds.
Riga, great looking women, ignorant ****s.

[Deleted User]

4Ad wrote: »

Barcelona, was expecying more,nice sights though.
Was in Tarragona before that, looks like a kip when you get off the train but a pleasant surprise.

Bratislava, jesus.
Llandudno, home of the inbreds.
Riga, great looking women, ignorant ****s.

Bratislava is a kip alright, richman sandwiches, a chicken fillet roll is better

[Deleted User]

Charles Babbage wrote: »

Indianapolis

A bit like Buffalo, Indy is another one of those US cities build recently (less than 200 years or so) in straight lines and to a system.
Very little history or natural character.

Alberquerque is another one.
Great scenery but a city just built on a grid of dual carriageways with nothing but housing development followed by shopping mall, followed by office block, followed by golf course, repeated for miles and miles.

[Deleted User]

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

Norway is a country I have been to many times and I always feel 'sad' there.

When you travel properly - not like most Irish people - you come to understand how pretty awesome Ireland is and places like Dublin we slag off are a million times better than we realize. To be honest most of Western Europe - apart from the ancient cultural elements - is essentially a life support system before the locals eventually die.

Ireland is special regardless of if you want to admit it or not. Although we have been destroyed by the most despicable and unnecessary covid lockdown on earth so who knows if we will ever recover.

Really? Having entertained many visitors over the years, Dublin is very limited for a capital city.

Most small cities offer very little, Murcia, Oviedo failed to impress but are ok to work in I guess.

As a tourist the worst place was kilkenny in Ireland. You have a castle and...........

Then Milan. Wow was that disappointing. Guy trying to mug me at the San siro was the highlight of a bad weekend

Strumms

4Ad wrote: »

Barcelona, was expecying more,nice sights though.
Was in Tarragona before that, looks like a kip when you get off the train but a pleasant surprise.

Bratislava, jesus.
Llandudno, home of the inbreds.
Riga, great looking women, ignorant ****s.

Been to Barcelona twice and I like the place but a little overrated...

Llandudno is beyond grim, I just had time to kill there but considered killing myself there...

joeysoap

Deleted User wrote: »

Salzburg, another borefest

Salzburg I found OK especially around the nearby lakes. Vienna I could leave. Same with Brussels
My son would say Stockholm. I'll stick with Derby. Awful.
Málaga I enjoyed.
Newtownsteward is beyond dead. Lifford isn't much better.

[Deleted User]

joeysoap wrote: »

Salzburg I found OK especially around the nearby lakes. Vienna I could leave. Same with Brussels
My son would say Stockholm. I'll stick with Derby. Awful.

Newtownsteward is beyond dead. Lifford isn't much better.

Vienna is nice, I agree with you on Brussels, Salzburg is a tourist trap

Purple Mountain

gmisk wrote: »

Harsh, I love amsterdam.
Some lovely bars on the canals, a few beers and bitterballen mmm cracking and pretty reasonable food. Museums, galleries etc top notch. Really fun to cycle around too.
I have a good friend who lives there so would be over a fair bit.

I found it dreary and depressing.
And no interaction towards tourists from business people.

poisonated

joeysoap wrote: »

Salzburg I found OK especially around the nearby lakes. Vienna I could leave. Same with Brussels
My son would say Stockholm. I'll stick with Derby. Awful.
Málaga I enjoyed.
Newtownsteward is beyond dead. Lifford isn't much better.

I enjoyed my time in Salzburg. And I have never watched the sound of music!

LillySV

Dublin