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Most boring places you've visited

snowstorm445

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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Pauliedragon

LA. Complete kip I thought. Hollywood is filthy and full of wannabe actors dressed up as movie characters harassing tourists for money just to get a picture taken with them.

Mad_maxx

josip wrote: »

Adelaide on a Monday
Linkoping Monday to Sunday

I've relatives in Adelaide, viewed as the most British of Australian cities, very reserved, extremely dry climate

Mad_maxx

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

Galway (the city). Not only the most over rated tourist destination in the world, but a place you can see and do everything there is to do there in about 15 to 25 mins.

IT IS CRAP. To the point whereby if someone tells me 'Galway is amazing' I assume that they have either never been anywhere else, or think that the totality of human experience revolves around a few pubs and not much else.

Galway is actually a national embarrassment and no one wants to admit it. Like a family member we all know is a loser but service their self-delusions out of kindness.

Fully agree, the city is bad enough but the county is even worse, **** weather, clannish folk beyond belief and not one decent town in the entire place

I much prefer Mayo

Mad_maxx

Valencia in Spain is a strange place

It's quite beautiful but the people are not nice at all , hardly any foreigners visit the place, rude staff , tourist offices hidden from site, city of arts and sciences a real let down despite being it's flagship attraction, aquarium filthy, great zoo though

Did majorca the following year and faith was restored in Spain, palma is fantastic

Mad_maxx

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.

Queenstown offers nothing whatsoever if you're not into extreme sports , I threw myself off a bridge back in 98 but the place had nothing otherwise

4Ad

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Valencia in Spain is a strange place

It's quite beautiful but the people are not nice at all , hardly any foreigners visit the place, rude staff , tourist offices hidden from site, city of arts and sciences a real let down despite being it's flagship attraction, aquarium filthy, great zoo though

Did majorca the following year and faith was restored in Spain, palma is fantastic

I agree with Palma...lovely.

Mad_maxx

4Ad wrote: »

I agree with Palma...lovely.

Very vibrant and feels bigger than it is

completedit

Bari Italy. I liked the place but there's nowhere to go in the city, it has the least amount of green areas of any Italian city and it shows. Even being beside the sea doesn't save it. There's a small beach but nobody goes there to swim(why would you when you have more beautiful places 1 hour away) I liked the town and the vibe to the place but a boring city with very little nightlife to speak of.

JimmyCorkhill

Burtonport in Donegal before getting a boat to Arranmore off Donegal.

Burtonport was dead & very depressing.

I believe years back there used to be a bit more activity in the place.

Calahonda52

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JimmyCorkhill

steamsey wrote: »

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.
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Thought Athens was a kip myself, was there around 3 years after the Olympics - expected it to be a bit nicer. The constant beeping of the cars is one thing I remember still.

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jackboy wrote: »

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

It is a dormitory town for Frankfurt. It is well known as a place where nothing happens but Mathildenhöhe is lovely.

Stovepipe

Andrewf20 wrote: »

The state of Texas. Considering its size, there is almost nothing in it. Some of the cities are nice like San Antonio but its a fews hours drive through totally flat plains between cities.

Dallas was a particularly banal place. I drove up on a Sunday and it was like a ghost town. Like alot of american cities, there no shops downtown. Its more a business district. At one point, I was standing on the block corner & took a photo up a few blocks without a single person in view in the heart of the city.

Heres what it was like, almost no cars or people out walking:

Been there.Closes at 6 when the office workers go home and you will essentially be idle until 9 pm,when the restaurants get busy and the bars fill out. Those three hours, silence.

Ger Roe

jayjay2010 wrote: »

For me, Holyhead. Pretty sure we went there on a Sunday and everything was closed..... even the bloody beach!! Ended up sitting in a pub all day waiting for the return ferry to Ireland. Awful trip.

Due to various ferry and London train mis-synchronisation events in the days of avoiding very expensive air travel, I spent too many hours in Hollyhead. Anglesea Island was literally just used as a gangplank connection to mainland Wales and it made no effort to have any purpose in its own right - the very little that was there in Holyhead was always closed and neglected looking. Dun Laoghaire at least made an effort to attract and entertain any tourists that strayed across in the other direction.

Even on ridiculously cheap Dun Laoghaire ferry day trips, best bet was to find the nearest bus stop and get out as quickly as possible. Usually we would go to Bangor.... mainly just because we could sing the song ..'Didn't we have a lovely time, the day we went to Bangor'.

We actually just had a slightly better time.

Stovepipe

Gamergurll wrote: »

No one wants to live there, they would never remember how to spell their own address!

the locals call it Llanfair (pronounced Clanfair).

gmisk

Pauliedragon wrote: »

LA. Complete kip I thought. Hollywood is filthy and full of wannabe actors dressed up as movie characters harassing tourists for money just to get a picture taken with them.

I spent about 6 weeks there and really enjoyed it.
I was in west hollywood which is party central, near sunset boulevard and two amazing shopping centers (I saw a lot of free gigs in the grove, and amoeba records is terrific). Went to a few free test screening and the food is good too.
Oh and lots of places to see bands too.

But LA in general is a bit of a sprawling grubby but up the pacific coast highway, beaches in laguna etc are lovely.

AMTE_21

Found Australia very quiet. We drove from Melbourne to Brisbane stopping in a couple of places on the way, absolutely nothing to do after 9 o’clock. Was disappointed with Sydney nightlife. Couldn’t find a decent restaurant. Disagree about Athens was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I was there in the 80s and thought it had improved a lot and I found the people very friendly.

New Zealand was a bit better than Australia.

Hard to beat some of those small towns in Australia, so boring. Wouldn’t go back to Australia only we have family there.

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Calgary in Canada.

The Nal

Pauliedragon wrote: »

LA. Complete kip I thought. Hollywood is filthy and full of wannabe actors dressed up as movie characters harassing tourists for money just to get a picture taken with them.

LOVED LA. Can't wait to go back. So much to do and see and its full of weirdos and great food.

mojesius

Manchester, New Hampshire was pretty forgettable. The bridge going over the river was probably the most interesting thing about the place.

Hibernicis

Ireland: most of the counties starting with the letter L; Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Louth. All dull as ditchwater.

England: almost all medium size cities are boring as hell. Twee little bits of preserved medieval buildings and mainly drab post war architecture. No soul or spirit. Awful pubs with one armed bandits that play accursed jingles and talk at you repetitively.

US: it has to be Tampa. Runner-up has to be any city in Texas other than Austin.

Far East: Singapore. Sterile with a hint of big brother menace.

Australia: Canberra by a mile. The Aussies couldn’t decide whether Sydney or Melbourne should be the national capital so they picked a greenfield site and built a new city. In its hundred years of existence it has failed abysmally to develop any character or charm. They should have left the green field alone, it was probably a lot more interesting.

New Zealand: Dunedin. Went into recession about 1915 and hasn’t emerged since. Dismal kip.

The Universe: it has to be Hull, more properly known as Kingston upon Hull. Absolutely definitely the most boring place ever. Most boardsies will never have been there and for very good reason. Has the distinction of being the most badly bombed city in UK during WW2 and it has never recovered. A soulless, depressed and repressed dump with absolutely nothing going for it.

alchemist33

feargantae wrote: »

Weed.

That's about all there is to get

Amsterdam has the best museum I've ever been to, the Rijksmuseum. Also a very pretty city

Hibernicis

alchemist33 wrote: »

Amsterdam has the best museum I've ever been to

Not this one ?

pauliebdub

Dusseldorf and Frankfurt were both very dull cities that I wouldn't return to. In Frankfurts case the nearby city of Mainz was much nicer.

Thelonious Monk

As beautiful as France is, it's so unbelievably dead at night outside of the big cities. Always found it funny how you cross the border into Spain and it's the complete opposite.

josip

How have so many people spent time in Holyhead?
Did ye all take a boat trip over to see it for the day(s) ?
I've only ever passed through, and then along the road to and from the terminal.
Usually driving considerably faster on the way back.

Lemon Davis lll

Another vote for Frankfurt.

I spent over ten years travelling Australasia, US & Europe with work and only Douglas in the Isle of Man and Batam in Indonesia came close to it.

Larbre34

josip wrote: »

How have so many people spent time in Holyhead?
Did ye all take a boat trip over to see it for the day(s) ?
I've only ever passed through, and then along the road to and from the terminal.
Usually driving considerably faster on the way back.

Yes.

In the 80s it was something we did in the summer.

Load up the cousins and meet at the morning Sealink boat in Dun Laoghaire. Get the breakfast and catch some rays on deck on the crossing over. Spend 4 or 5 hours in Holyhead to get lunch and the Mammies would hit Woolworths and Boots for the exotica not to be found in the Dublin of the time.

On the way back, the Dads would raid the duty free and all the kids would be laden down with slabs of Fosters and whatever toys we had selected in Holyhead.

Simpler times.

IrishLad90

OP the cities in your first post suggest you were on n a tour to discover the routes of Techno..
I have been told by Germans that Hannover not Berlin is the birthplace of the movement and glorified in the likes of Amsterdam and Prague..
A trip i had planned to do last summer before COVID disrupted life as we knew it

Brian?

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Malmö.

Holyhead wasn’t great either. Thankfully, wasn’t stuck there for too long.

I had to spend 6 hours in Holyhead once. Ended up parking the car in the ferry port and falling asleep. Hole of a place.

The US: Albuquerque

Europe: Brussels