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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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I see sheep

humberklog wrote: »

I was very surprised to see Athens mentioned as boring in quite a few posts. I really like Athens but the economic kick in the balls it got was brutal and visually evident even 12 years on. It's still not recovering in any meaningful way which leads to a lot of begging and it is a bit grubby in the central areas but I don't mind that.

I know great bars and restaurants, I like the food and find the people great fun. I always like to stay an extra few days there before moving on when I'm in Greece.

Another vote for Copenhagen. I simply find the Copenhageners (?) stuffy, aloof and joyless.

People who call Athens boring are clueless idiot tourists, used to be being in a resort in Corfu or Mykonos, and certainly have never hung around Exarchia for a day/night.

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Witchie wrote: »

Agreed. India is a horrible place. The people are mostly lovely but the chaos, filth and noise drove me mad.

I did like Goa and some other places were interesting but Bangalore was dull, boring and all the other things I hate about India all in one hell hole.

Was working there for a few months and outside of work colleagues and one flirty barman, no one made an attempt to chat or engage. Nightlife was crap too.

I was only in Kerala..wouldn't be rushing back to India, noise and dirt.
Veggie food was lovely..dhosas for breakfast, hmmm !!

italodisco

I see sheep wrote: »

Italian cities 'boring' .. are you having a laugh?? The craic you see on the street in Italy is amazing, people screaming at other like crazy over nothing, always drama .. how is this boring?

I agree, I was in pisa 2001, woman arguing with a copper, big dramatic ott row, woman gave the cop a cracking open hand slap, cop gave her a fairly decent right hook lol.

Nobody batted an eyelid.

I travelled around Italy for a few months, so many rowdy loud colourful characters, was a big highlight for me!!

[Deleted User]

hahashake wrote: »

I've never been to India but the general filth I have heard about and seen in pictures/video has really put me off, even though a lot of the country really appeals to me.

I’m afraid I don’t know anybody who really loved India. I have an acquaintance who wanted to go there for his entire life, so much so that he took a 6-month sabbatical from work to really explore.

He had great plans to get immersed in Yoga retreats and visit the holy cities like Varanasi. Not only was he robbed of his belongings, he also had the misfortune to contract typhoid and was forced to return to Ireland after a few months to recuperate. Left him feeling very disillusioned with the place.

I’ve never had any desire to visit India, but I work in an industry in which India is a crucial player. I’ve been to Bangalore, which as another poster mentioned, is awful. Hyderabad is slightly better, but I’d happily never set foot there again. Indians are mostly fine, but I always feel very uncomfortable with how deferential they are because I’m European. I’ve also seen the caste system in action in the workplace. One of the most talented engineers was from the Dalit or ‘untouchable’ caste. The way his ostensibly higher caste colleagues treated him, was simply disgusting.

I’ve heard that Southern India, particularly Goa is supposed to be quite pleasant. Frankly, I have no interest in going back there to discover for myself. The squalor, filth, and poverty I’ve seen with my own eyes is not something I wish to experience again.

hahashake

The corruption scares me too. I've had a few experiences in Southern Italy that left a bad taste and I'm sure India is 100x worse.

appledrop

I love Italy but I have to say I found Milan very boring and I say this as someone who loves shopping!

Thankfully it was just a stop off as we had flown into Milan but it was very underwhelming.

Now we did visit in August so that might account for part of problem as waiter was saying all the Italians leave it in August to go elsewhere and a lot of places were closed.

I see sheep

Hamachi wrote: »

I’m afraid I don’t know anybody who really loved India. I have an acquaintance who wanted to go there for his entire life, so much so that he took a 6-month sabbatical from work to really explore.

He had great plans to get immersed in Yoga retreats and visit the holy cities like Varanasi. Not only was he robbed of his belongings, he also had the misfortune to contract typhoid and was forced to return to Ireland after a few months to recuperate. Left him feeling very disillusioned with the place.

I’ve never had any desire to visit India, but I work in an industry in which India is a crucial player. I’ve been to Bangalore, which as another poster mentioned, is awful. Hyderabad is slightly better, but I’d happily never set foot there again. Indians are mostly fine, but I always feel very uncomfortable with how deferential there are because I’m European. I’ve also seen the caste system in action in the workplace. One of the most talented engineers was from the Dalit or ‘untouchable’ class. The way his ostensibly higher caste colleagues treated him, was simply disgusting.

I’ve heard that Southern India, particularly Goa is supposed to be quite pleasant. Frankly, I have no interest in going back there to discover for myself. The squalor, filth, and poverty I’ve seen with my own eyes is not something I wish to experience again.

That doesn't sound boring either though.

YOU sound incredibly boring though, no offence intended but I mention that as you're posting on a thread about boring places.

Have a nice boring life man. I bet you are sorely missed in India

GT89

[Deleted User] wrote: »

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

I agree about the coastal walks but Howth village itself is a bit of a let down.

[Deleted User]

Dav010 wrote: »

Holyhead, possibly the worst town I have ever been.

I found Boston a bit of a letdown, but I was living in NY at the time so it was pale by comparison.

Yes it can be a let down after NYC.
I used to live in Boston, and I'd often go to NY for the weekend or even just a Saturday night, and when you got back to Boston it was like returning to a small rural village.

But as American cities go Boston has character.
It has crooked narrow streets, not these wide grid patters you see in other newer cities like Pittsburgh, Indy, Chicago, St Louis, Kansas City, Dallas etc.

It's got different areas within the main part of the city that have their own identity, like the Back Bay, the North End, Downtown etc, and across the bridge you have Cambridge with places like Harvard Sq etc
It not just a bunch of sky scraper office buildings that are deserted after 5pm

Plus you have a semi decent underground system.

Sheering

Kansas seemed pretty boring when I went through it. All I recall was a tumbleweed.

PeggyShippen

Galway is boring ,about 2 streets and thats it. Lots of suburbs. I think its what happens when you stretch a town into a city...the city centre stays the same size. I like Limerick because it has such a big city centre relative to its size and the Georgian streets. The Midlands towns...theres isn't one good one.
I find Bristol over rated and Exeter. But I haven't experienced them late at night..
Berlin...what a let down that place is. Crusty heaven. Dirty..sprawling ,city centre..a million miles form the likes of London, Paris ect. The river boat is the only good thing...
Iv done all Texas..Austin and Heuston and North East texas up near Arkansas are all fantastic...Dallas a dump..I like the size..the massiveness of it.
Wales in general is terrible, uts smaller than Munster with none of the variety....except for Cardiff which is great...
Never been to Indian..the filth and poverty as described would turn me off. I cant stomach appalling poverty.

GT89

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

A lot of Italian cities if you take away the history/culture are fairly bleak places. I love Turin. It is a city about the size of Dublin with incredible architecture in the shadow of the Alps. But after 7PM it literally becomes a ghost town. Like an actual switch is turned off. I see the same in so many Italian cities.

Some of the cities in the North of Italy are a bit like that alright. If your into dronking/clubbing holidays Italy is definitely not the place I've been to Italy multiple times and don't I have even seen one nightclub and bars there are more geared towards coffee than alcohol but funnily enough if you order spirits in Italy the measures will nearly double what you get in Ireland.

It really depends where you go though I'm sure there parts of Turin with plenty of life in the evening in areas with bars and restaurants. In most places in Italy the old part of the city has plenty of bars, shops and restaurants open at night and is the place to go for nightlife in Palermo for example the city only comes alive at night.

If your in Dublin and only go to the IFSC at night you'd say Dublin is dead but I do agree Turin wouldn't be favourite Italian city. For me smaller cities in Italy like Verona, Bologna, Bergamo are the nicest to visit. Some places in the south are also nice.

MyLove4Satan

I actually fail to see the appeal of Australia as an actual country. The outback and deserts are amazing of course, but what it the great appeal about living there? The Irish who go live there are all ghettoised anyway - socializing with the same people they went to school with back in Ireland.

MyLove4Satan

I see sheep wrote: »

People who call Athens boring are clueless idiot tourists, used to be being in a resort in Corfu or Mykonos, and certainly have never hung around Exarchia for a day/night.

Absolutely! I was amazed at some the comments about Athens on this thread. Athens is a pulsating and energetic city filled with life. I do not care about the graffiti! It is pure energy. What kind of pussies are made frightened by graffiti in the 21st century FFS!

dreamers75

Norkoping in Sweden literally the tallaght of Sweden.

MyLove4Satan

I see sheep wrote: »

Italian cities 'boring' .. are you having a laugh?? The craic you see on the street in Italy is amazing, people screaming at other like crazy over nothing, always drama .. how is this boring?

I never said that. I said a lot of them. It is true, Turin a city I love is empty after 7PM. Milian is a ****hole with not a lot to do. Florence apart from the tourist stuff there is nothing to do. You are also stereotyping Italians. you will find that the ones in the north are culturally VERY different than the ones south of Rome.

From your comments I don't think you have traveled much through that country to be honest.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Santa Cruz in Bolivia. There really didn't seem to be much to do in that city.

MyLove4Satan

I see sheep wrote: »

Another person not cool enough to get Galway :cool: good luck :pac:

Galway...cool? No, it is a whole heap of absolutely nothing. If theoretical physicists want to locate Dark Matter it lies between Eyre Square and Salthill.

Galway is basically Kiltimagh with miles of suburbs around it.

GT89

PeggyShippen wrote: »

Galway is boring ,about 2 streets and thats it. Lots of suburbs. I think its what happens when you stretch a town into a city...the city centre stays the same size. I like Limerick because it has such a big city centre relative to its size and the Georgian streets. The Midlands towns...theres isn't one good one.
I find Bristol over rated and Exeter. But I haven't experienced them late at night..
Berlin...what a let down that place is. Crusty heaven. Dirty..sprawling ,city centre..a million miles form the likes of London, Paris ect. The river boat is the only good thing...
Iv done all Texas..Austin and Heuston and North East texas up near Arkansas are all fantastic...Dallas a dump..I like the size..the massiveness of it.
Wales in general is terrible, uts smaller than Munster with none of the variety....except for Cardiff which is great...
Never been to Indian..the filth and poverty as described would turn me off. I cant stomach appalling poverty.

Have to agree about Galway, Wales and Berlin. Galway city centre feels like Temple Bar except it's the entire city centre with Eyre Square being Dame Street and that's it. The suburbs of Galway have to the worst planned city in Europe it's like people living there wanted the benefits of living of city living but also a huge Irish country style house so it's looks half city and half countryside. Berlin is crusty heaven 100%.

Limerick could be quite nice but I feel it's a bit rundown and not much effort has been put into the place to attract visitors like many towns and smaller cities in Ireland and the UK, Limerick seems particularly bad in this regard.

con___manx1

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

I actually fail to see the appeal of Australia as an actual country. The outback and deserts are amazing of course, but what it the great appeal about living there? The Irish who go live there are all ghettoised anyway - socializing with the same people they went to school with back in Ireland.

It's a beautiful country with so much to see and do. The Australians are nice people and the weather is pretty good. The wildlife over there is pretty special aswell.

Charles Babbage

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

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.
.

Buffalo has some early 20th century architecture of note. Indianapolis not so much.

silliussoddius

Sheering wrote: »

Kansas seemed pretty boring when I went through it. All I recall was a tumbleweed.

That John Denver is full of sh1t

Charles Babbage

Covid21 wrote: »

Agree with a lot of posters here:

Holyhead = Boring and a ****hole
Milan = Boring
Australia = Completely Overrated

Milan isn't the best in Italy by any means but has a few districts with restaurants etc. It is a big cosmopolitan city it rely on tourists to patronize these places, there are plenty of locals around. And a few decent museums.

Turin is not a party town, but I had the best meal I ever had there.

Strumms

Milan I liked although I think I’d not be in a major hurry to return unless for a specific reason.

Turin, was cool, different, I liked it.

hahashake

con___manx1 wrote: »

It's a beautiful country with so much to see and do. The Australians are nice people and the weather is pretty good. The wildlife over there is pretty special aswell.

Melbourne and Sydney are world class cities. Both aren't perfect but their upsides are massive.

Your Face

Galway Tourism has made fools of a lot of people

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I see sheep wrote: »

That doesn't sound boring either though.

YOU sound incredibly boring though, no offence intended but I mention that as you're posting on a thread about boring places.

Have a nice boring life man. I bet you are sorely missed in India

Thanks Man!

No doubt your two weeks in Santa Ponsa every year are the business.

fryup

any irish midlands town....thank god for the motorway network

lawred2

Struggling to understand why so many mentions for Holyhead!? Is it advertising itself as anything other than what it is? A small coastal town with a ferry port? What were people expecting?

Funny seeing it mentioned alongside global cities like Milan and Singapore.

forumdedum

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

Absolutely! I was amazed at some the comments about Athens on this thread. Athens is a pulsating and energetic city filled with life. I do not care about the graffiti! It is pure energy. What kind of pussies are made frightened by graffiti in the 21st century FFS!

Graffiti doesn't frighten me but i can't stand the sight of it. Art my foot.