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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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Patsy167

rossie1977 wrote: »

New Zealand, Vienna, Malmo, Norway, Bratislava... what in the flying f**k are these places being mentioned for

If you find any of them boring that's mostly on you. Queenstown is one of the best towns its size anywhere on Earth and that's just one place in NZ.

A lot of the places being mentioned on the thread fall into the overrated category, rather than outright boring.

Having expectations that are set too high in advance is common. Doing too much research on a place in advance with lonely planet books, reviews, and pictures is a recipe for disappointment.

Best approach is often to do the minimum research needed and be open to anything that turns up

PerryB78

Canberra

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I love museums, of all sorts, I really do, but the pleasure I get in them withers to inconsequential beside the obsessive passion himself has for them, from the most glorious packed with fascinating treasures to the humblest folkiest establishment. Many is the time I have been reduced to incapacitating boredom after hours spent moving slowly from room to room, so that I have to flee and take refuge sitting alone, spent, impatient, tired, footsore, on hot cobbles in some dusty courtyard waiting for his ecstasies to subside. Christ, have I been bored.

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[Deleted User] wrote: »

I love museums, of all sorts, I really do, but the pleasure I get in them withers to inconsequential beside the obsessive passion himself has for them, from the most glorious packed with fascinating treasures to the humblest folkiest establishment. Many is the time I have been reduced to incapacitating boredom after hours spent moving slowly from room to room, so that I have to flee and take refuge sitting alone, spent, impatient, tired, footsore, on hot cobbles in some dusty courtyard waiting for his ecstasies to subside. Christ, have I been bored.

Sounds like that type of boredom travels with you wherever you go.

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Dav010 wrote: »

Sounds like that type of boredom travels with you wherever you go.

It always starts out so well. We enthuse equally. I am thrilled, he is thrilled. But 5 or 6 hours of winding corridors and backlit glass displays later he is still thrilling and I am an apathetic wreck who could not muster a single grunt for our mysterious past.

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Tyrone212 wrote: »

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.

Funny think about the thick as **** Ozzies that make such comments are they are only a few generations off the prison ships.

Encountered similar attitudes amongst some.

Mad_maxx

Galashiels in Scotland which is very close to the English border

went from Belfast to Stranraer on the ferry about eleven years ago to the Lake District and drove through Dumfries and Galloway which is very nice rural part of Scotland, stayed in a B+B near English border in Galashiels as too late to see anything in Cumbria.

Went out for something to eat in Galashiels and afterwards checked out what pubs were doing

They were all dead as dillinger, weird vibe about the place

steamsey

Athens - complete kip. Sights are underwhelming. Got the trots. Was expecting Rome level of sights but everything in Athens was in bits. Saw the sights in about 3 hours and was done. Massive disapointment.

Vienna - nightlife was hard to find. Incredibly boring place, museums etc are nice, but I'll never go back. Sterile. Rude-ish.

Philippines - worst food and drink I've seen in a country. Had a terrible time. No craic. Manila was ****e, islands can be jammed with tourists during day but still no nightlife.

Riga - but for the cheap flights, there's no reason to go there. Rude, dodgy. Friend was mugged.

Brussels - again there was a little bit of mugging. Gangs of scumbags hanging around looking for tourists to rob. Doubt I'd ever return. Nothing of interest there.

St Louis Missouri. Jesus what a kip. Dodgy too. Nothing to do. City is largely derelict. Massive abandoned NFL stadium in the city, left there after the Rams got so bored, they fecked off to the west coast. Watching crack heads wandering around the abandoned stadium grounds was the most exciting part of the trip. Nearly got mugged but assailant's flip flop came off which provided an escape route.

Caracas - love Venezuela but this city lacks anything at all for visitors. Very dangerous, very dirty. Nothing on the shelves in shops. Massive problems. Life here is largely confined to malls with armed security guards. Lovely people though. Barely enough in the city to entertain you for an afternoon. No reason to stay there.

whisky_galore

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SSSShhh people that live in dublin think its better than new york or tokyo

For a tourist dublin isnt too bad as long as you know where to go

Top attraction is a fake brewery tour that's just a massive walk-in advertisement.
Oh and a cringe Leprechaun Museum.

sheepondrugs

PerryB78 wrote: »

Canberra

Yes indeed . Had to spend 6 weeks there while working with Telstra years ago.
legged it back Sydney every weekend to alleviate the tedium.
The surrounding hills and countryside was quite pleasant though.

is_that_so

jmlad2020 wrote: »

Dortmund is up there.

I also found Howth to be incredibly underwhelming when I visited... I grew up on the west coast, beautiful scenery etc.. I just thought it didn't deserve the amount of Tourists it was getting in comparison to some other places in Ireland.

It's all personal preference.

It's on the DART and easy to get to!

Rustyman101

Frankfurt for me wouldn't return also agree with Vienna on hard to find nightlife.

marialouise

Pisa

The Nal

Rochester, New York. As someone once said to me "I never knew hell could be so cold."

Dallas. As someone from Houston once said to me "That ain't Texas man".

San Diego. Not boring really but apart from a few bars theres nothing going on. Not really into thousands of homeless people either.

Milan. Apart from a museum or two, dullsville.

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whisky_galore wrote: »

Top attraction is a fake brewery tour that's just a massive walk-in advertisement.
Oh and a cringe Leprechaun Museum.

Guinness Factory is absolute horse****, I agree. Jameson tour is good. What I like about Dublin and Ireland as a whole is the amount of history and culture that exists among us. Something that lacked from my time living in Sydney.

Some nice parks, good treks and trails about. Coastal Dublin has some really underrated scenery.

7 days a week nightlife is probably the best thing about Dublin although that's ****ed now.

I agree Canberra is a dreadful soulless city.

is_that_so

Rustyman101 wrote: »

Frankfurt for me wouldn't return also agree with Vienna on hard to find nightlife.

Would disagree on Frankfurt, great for music and cultural stuff -Mannheim though. I'd also include the grim industrial city of Katowice in Poland.

RoscommonTom

Waterford, nothing to do there and you can hardly understand any thing they say with the accents,

Montage of Feck

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Vienna, next level boredom

Surely one of the most historic cities in Europe would have something interesting to see?

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RoscommonTom wrote: »

Waterford, nothing to do there and you can hardly understand any thing they say with the accents,

Not much in Roscommon either Tom to be fair, at least Waterford has a coastal scenic route...

Sharpyshoot

Fieldog wrote: »

Not much in Roscommon either Tom to be fair, at least Waterford has a coastal scenic route...

They ride their sisters in Waterford during the Angelus.

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Sharpyshoot wrote: »

They ride their sisters in Waterford during the Angelus.

One of the more evocative sentences I have thus far read on boards.

AdrianBalboa

Honestly as someone born and raised in SoCoDu I never really got the appeal of visiting “down the country.” Like it’s just fields and that horrible smell from those fat cylindrical bags of plastics and their accents oh my god they’re terrible.

I prefer to “staycate” within the confines of County Dublin where there’s actually things to see and do and some actual history.

Sharpyshoot

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One of the more evocative sentences I have thus far read on boards.

You had some cul de sac old boy back in the day?

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Sharpyshoot wrote: »

They ride their sisters in Waterford during the Angelus.

Sure in Dublin we sacrifice our first born for the Claire Byrne show, horses for courses...

harr

Found Toronto boring, not bad to walk around during the day but come night time we found very little to do and found the night life very tame . I suppose it’s like a lot of big city’s at night.
I found Perth the same , nice restaurants and enough to do during the day but found it boring at night and the people seem very serious.

flange888

Holyhead without a shadow of a doubt!

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Sharpyshoot wrote: »

You had some cul de sac old boy back in the day?

We can't all be as lucky as you, I'm afraid.

Fritzbox

harr wrote: »

Found Toronto boring, not bad to walk around during the day but come night time we found very little to do and found the night life very tame . I suppose it’s like a lot of big city’s at night.
I found Perth the same , nice restaurants and enough to do during the day but found it boring at night and the people seem very serious.

I liked Peter Ustinov's quote on Toronto: "New York run by the Swiss".

afkasurfjunkie

Edmonton in Canada. Utterly soulless city.

jackboy

Darmstadt Germany. Spent two nights wandering around looking for an ok bar. Failed.