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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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lawred2

road_high wrote: »

Was disappointed with Manchester- even did the bus tour. If you’re not interested in shopping or football not a lot going on. No big sense of history or very interesting buildings

Bit like Glasgow for me.. a living city more than a place for tourists..

Some cities are like that.

shesty

Milan too.Very underwhelming.Having been to many Italian towns and cities, Milan was just...meh.And we mistakenly spent a few days there.

lawred2

[Deleted User] wrote: »

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

100%

The cliff walk is great plus the view of Dublin bay from the lighthouse on a sunny day would rival anywhere.

Howth is a great day out.

lawred2

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

It is the same dynamic again as Hanover. Frankfurt/Darmstadt are boring places in terms of the urban elements but once more, the Hinterland of the Odenwald which is the last remnant of the once great European forests. You can get lost there for years if you want. Lovely small villages with great and cheap places to eat. I almost moved to Darmstadt at one point just because of the Odenwald on its doorstep.

I like cities that are close to nature - so you can have the best of both.

I lived in Oberursel for a time. Direct rail connection to Frankfurt but you felt like you were living on a different planet. Rural bliss. One of the prettiest villages I've ever been in. And you're right about the forests. There was many an evening whiled away in the many orchards in the hills around Frankfurt watching the sun go down.

hahashake

Larbre34 wrote: »

That explains better what I mean.

Touring it is a waste of time for the most part. There are maybe 4 or 5 good spots. The best advice is to go direct from one to the other.

The one and only time I went, I spent 5 weeks in NZ and only 10 days in Australia en route. Boy did I get that backwards.

Strongly disagree with this, touring the towns and cities, yes but it's a surprisingly big country with a lot of varied sights and activities. As long as you have a good itinerary, enough money and willingness to actually do things then there are months of things to do.

HalloweenJack

Pisa. Made the mistake of staying the night there when an hour or two is all you need to see the one thing going for it.

rock22

snowstorm445 wrote: »

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?

i assume you mean Herrenhausen, the home of the Dukes of Hannover ( who became the kings of England and retained the throne up to Victoria).
These are one of the finest Baroque gardens in existence. I would love to know where there are other , less modest , gardens in Germany?

Much surprised you found them less than impressive.

whisky_galore

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.

They could actually mix with other non GAA shirted people if they wanted to.
Familiarity and a supply of Taytos and pork sausages brings them comfort.

fryup

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Pisa. Made the mistake of staying the night there when an hour or two is all you need to see the one thing going for it.

and what be dat?

Wanderer78

Jesus, we really are weird in the first world, do places just exist for our entertainment now?

duffmann

Had to do spend a Saturday night in Podgorica once when backpacking around the Balkans. Boring as hell.
As for Pisa, Milan, Athens... I like them. You need to get away from the tourist traps and find the places that the locals hang out in.

Dante

Newry or Holyhead for me. I think Holyhead just about shaves it, a god awful place.

As for overseas places, I found LA incredibly dull.

shesty

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Pisa. Made the mistake of staying the night there when an hour or two is all you need to see the one thing going for it.

Eh yeah.Pisa is a day trip, nothing else.Live and learn I guess.
Never loved Howth.There are nicer places around!

jiltloop

Dufflecoat Fanny wrote: »

Berlin was great for 2 weeks but had nothing to do after

Ah jesus I can't believe Berlin is getting a mention. Some of the places mentioned here would lead me to believe that it's the person rather than the place that's the problem.

Berlin has everything you could ever need in a city for an exciting trip, great museums, clubs, bars, restaurants. You can't get a much better nightlife than Berlin.

jackboy

GT89 wrote: »

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.

The annoying thing about Galway is that they spent a fortune upgrading Eyre square to make it much worse. It was never anything special before but had a bit of charm. Now it’s just ugly and soulless.

I see sheep

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

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

I lived there, i know it quite well

whisky_galore

jackboy wrote: »

The annoying thing about Galway is that they spent a fortune upgrading Eyre square to make it much worse. It was never anything special before but had a bit of charm. Now it’s just ugly and soulless.

A small Disneyfied diddly-aye quarter surrounded by sea of dull suburbia.

Car99

Fishguard.

Brian?

forumdedum wrote: »

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

Badly done graffiti is awful, but there is great graffiti that is absolutely art.

Do you dismiss all pottery because a kids made a **** ashtray in school?

I see sheep

Every thread about places to live/visit ends up in Galwsy bashing. A lot of jealous people here who've never had the pleasure of living in Galway.

[Deleted User]

I see sheep wrote: »

Every thread about places to live/visit ends up in Galwsy bashing. A lot of jealous people here who've never had the pleasure of living in Galway.

i once had the misfortune of spending a night in loughrea.....it has no redeeming values

jackboy

I see sheep wrote: »

Every thread about places to live/visit ends up in Galwsy bashing. A lot of jealous people here who've never had the pleasure of living in Galway.

Galway is somewhere we have all been. It does have some things going for it but there is no doubt that it is very overrated. Spending a lot of money on upgrading a city but actually making it worse is unforgivable.

EmmetSpiceland

dreamers75 wrote: »

Norkoping in Sweden literally the tallaght of Sweden.

Yeah, at least Stockholm has ‘the Vasa’. Norrköping just has trees.

EmptyTree

GT89 wrote: »

Galway last summer during covid restrictions utter bore fest only went there because my OH wouldn't go on a foreign holiday. Other places that stuck as very boring were Roscoff in France, Berlin and Manchester.

You've just discredited your entire post.

bobbyss

jackboy wrote:

The annoying thing about Galway is that they spent a fortune upgrading Eyre square to make it much worse. It was never anything special before but had a bit of charm. Now itâ€™s just ugly and soulless.

The square is a disaster. Yoy are right. Soulless is the word. Then you have a bunch of youngsters on skateboards making intolerable noise. The lovely iron surround fencing is gone. Seems less green. Now full of cement. The 'fountain', well i have not seen any water in it for years.

[Deleted User]

The worst holiday I was ever on was Zakynthos ( Zante ) in Greece. Found it a bit of a sh!thole. We booked it as a cheapo sun holiday so wasn't expecting much but jaysus it was crap. The highlight tourist attraction is a small island off it that has a shipwreck that yes it is postcard beautiful but it's just, get a bus to the boat, boat drops you off on this small beach with the shipwreck for an hour then picks you up and brings you back. The English tour guide on the way was stuck for so little to point out that I sh!t you not at one stage he said, "and if you look out the window to your right you'll see a big rock".

[Deleted User]

There is a light wrote: »

The worst holiday I was ever on was Zakynthos ( Zante ) in Greece. Found it a bit of a sh!thole. We booked it as a cheapo sun holiday so wasn't expecting much but jaysus it was crap. The highlight tourist attraction is a small island off it that has a shipwreck that yes it is postcard beautiful but it's just, get a bus to the boat, boat drops you off on this small beach with the shipwreck for an hour then picks you up and brings you back. The English tour guide on the way was stuck for so little to point out that I sh!t you not at one stage he said, "and if you look out the window to your right you'll see a big rock".

It's definitely not a ****hole!
You booked a cheap sun holiday, I'd wonder what you expected?

chosen1

EmptyTree wrote: »

You've just discredited your entire post.

I spent a week in Berlin and couldn't find much night life the first couple of nights we were there. Looked up a few highly rated clubs but were refused entry on dresscode as everyone wearing blazers going in. Some door men not too keen on tourists either.

Wasn't till the third night when we got chatting to some locals that we found the underground techno clubs in what looked like abandoned industrial estates. Had great nights after that but we met several tourists who hadn't found any of it in their entire stay.

It's lacking a proper city centre and massively spread out in smaller districts. Probably due to the damage caused by the bombings in the war.

The Nal

Irish nominations

Mullingar
Athlone
Longford
Navan
Portlaoise
Cavan
Dundalk
Drogheda
Carlow
Tullamore

[Deleted User]

bubblypop wrote:

It's definitely not a ****hole! You booked a cheap sun holiday, I'd wonder what you expected?

I said I wasn't expecting much but I've been on cheap holidays before that were much better than this place. I wouldn't take offence to every place a person doesn't like. It's okay to have a different opinion you know and each to their own.