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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:

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Thelonious Monk

A job sent me to Indianapolis for a couple of weeks a few years ago, good lord, instantly forgettable.

road_high

flange888 wrote: »

Holyhead without a shadow of a doubt!

Yes been there a few times and had hours to kill thanks ti delayed ferries.
Woeful kip, highlight was the small Sainsbury’s and McDonalds!! Had the car that time. Another as a foot passenger eventually found some odd Asian type place to eat, was ok

Montage of Feck

Houston looks like a city designed in SimCity.

saabsaab

Mullinabreena wrote: »

Here in Ireland most of the Midlands counties and towns are pretty forgettable. Not much going on and the scenery isn't much either. So probably unfair to pick out one. I suppose on coastal counties I find Galway quite boring, well with the exception of Conamarra and the Islands. I find the city a bit boring too. Its over rated alright but I suspect anyone who spend time in college there harper back to their youth or Celtic tiger race week.

I agree with what you said except the city bit but each to their own. Most people would find Galway City fun and always having something interesting on.

Aidric

Charleroi in Belgium.

Lesalare

tommybrees wrote: »

No.
The tread is most boring places.
For such a world renowned place it is surely up there.

Are you meaning Uluru?

Or just the other 2.5 million square miles of nothing?

FromADistance

Middlesbrough. An utter sh*thole.

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Lesalare wrote: »

What were you expecting to find in the middle of the outback in Aus? Nightclubs and casinos?

No.
The tread is most boring places.
For such a world renowned place it is surely up there.

saabsaab

Castlebar and New Ross both seemed dead.

Lesalare

tommybrees wrote: »

Same with outback Australia.

What were you expecting to find in the middle of the outback in Aus? Nightclubs and casinos?

Mullinabreena

Here in Ireland most of the Midlands counties and towns are pretty forgettable. Not much going on and the scenery isn't much either. So probably unfair to pick out one. I suppose on coastal counties I find Galway quite boring, well with the exception of Conamarra and the Islands. I find the city a bit boring too. Its over rated alright but I suspect anyone who spend time in college there harper back to their youth or Celtic tiger race week.

thegills

Milton Keynes. Spent 2 weeks there many years ago. Pubs opened on alternative nights with only local karaoke. Nothing to do otherwise.

[Deleted User]

Anywhere in the mid West of the USA.
Same with outback Australia.
All you can do is drink cans and shoot guns

tayto lover

Zaney wrote: »

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

Yeh, Castleblaney is a bit of a let down.

EmmetSpiceland

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Angkor??? ****ing hell... It's amazing.

Wat?!

[Deleted User]

2lazytogetup wrote: »

the main temple site in Cambodia,

Angkor??? ****ing hell... It's amazing.

completedit

I like Brussels. Seems like it would have a good vibe. I went there in the summer for the weekend and enjoyed it. By all accounts it is dead at the moment.

Lesalare

bosco12345 wrote: »

Brussels. I'd rather have a bath with me parents than visit that spot again.

I literally nearly spat my tea out.

bosco12345

Brussels. I'd rather have a bath with me parents than visit that spot again.

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MrMusician18 wrote: »

All this thread shows me is that a lot of tourists do not bother to research the places they visit before they go.

Researching a place before you visit a place = boring

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FintanMcluskey wrote: »

Stoke-on-Trent

Never seen the likes

Try it’s neighbour- Derby!

PHG

Pisa: Was based there for a trip, boring as.... Even the tower is underwhelming
Bratislava: Spent 2 days there then boat to Vienna as close together, ok but no more than 1 night and 2 days there. You can walk the city in under a day
Northern Sardinia: Bar the really rich town the other ones look like they have been to war
Rejkavik: Iceland is class but the capital is so boring and expensive.
Malmö: Explained on here a few times
Cancun: Very overrated
Roscommon: Not a thing to see or do

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There is a light wrote: »

It's all subjective really and each to their own. Some people are looking for places with a good nightlife. Some are looking for somewhere with a lot of culture. Some are looking for somewhere that isn't about the city but the scenery/ beaches etc. It's all down to what you're looking for really.

This is so true
I lived in a country with non existent tourism, I couldn't even recommend it for more then 2 days to anyone! But I loved living in that country! It's not for holidays though.
I spent a lot of time in Finland also, really boring holiday if you're going for a week or so, unless it's to see Santa! But if you spend a decent amount of time there, it is such a lovely country.

Depends what you want from a place too, some study before you go anywhere is clearly a good idea!

Edit, on topic, the most boring place I ever was, was Frankfurt. Sorry Germany, everywhere else I have been has been great. Frankfurt was soooooo boring.

completedit

What I've found is that I tend to like places over a longer time spell. Some places you go to and they don't leave such an impression but if you spend more time you'll get a lot more out of them.

MrMusician18

There is a light wrote: »

It's all subjective really and each to their own. Some people are looking for places with a good nightlife. Some are looking for somewhere with a lot of culture. Some are looking for somewhere that isn't about the city but the scenery/ beaches etc. It's all down to what you're looking for really.

All this thread shows me is that a lot of tourists do not bother to research the places they visit before they go.

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fvp4 wrote:

Jesus Christ. Get your fat arse up the coastal walks you chump.

How do you know his arse is fat? Have you been creeping on people again?...

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ShatterAlan wrote: »

Have to agree with you on Howth. Yot get off the Dart there and what is there to do and see? There's that pub, the Bloody Stream for a pint, look at a few effing trawlers and then get fish and chips only to have a seagull mug you for .

Jesus Christ. Get your fat arse up the coastal walks you chump.

[Deleted User]

It's all subjective really and each to their own. Some people are looking for places with a good nightlife. Some are looking for somewhere with a lot of culture. Some are looking for somewhere that isn't about the city but the scenery/ beaches etc. It's all down to what you're looking for really.

MaccaTacca

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Don't forget Celbridge!

Never been but I'd imagine it's cut from the same cloth.

[Deleted User]

I would hate to go anywhere with a lot of these posters!