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Overhyped places.

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  • #32
    wallywhittle
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    Amsterdam, attracts the worst kind of English and Irish people


  • #33
    SparkySpitfire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭SparkySpitfire


    Egginacup wrote: »
    Not really places but sites, I suppose.

    I was very unimpressed with Stonehenge. I know I'll incur the wrath of the druid people and archaeology buffs but I just thought it was underwhelming. Probably my fault thinking it would be "breathtaking" when it shouldn't be really, but rather a place where you go to think about the guys who built it and why rather than the structure itself.

    Funnily enough I only landed on Stonehenge's facebook page yesterday and while the average of reviews is something like 4.something stars there is a recent HEAP of 1 and 2 star reviews calling the heritage society or whoever runs it swindlers and cheapskates and it really sounds pretty crap from the way they were talking about it. Even the recent 5 star reviews were just "I felt a great energy" - Now I'm sure that person did but I am not that type I just like history so I was very disappointed when I realised they have just tried to commercialise the crap out of it now.


  • #34
    Magico Gonzalez
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    wallywhittle wrote: »
    Amsterdam, attracts the worst kind of English and Irish people

    In the same vain, Hamburg. Red light zone and the surrounding areas are horrible. The rest is extremely wealthy and free of any kind of craic. It's either brazzers or boredom. Couldn't wait to leave.


  • #35
    Turtyturd
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    Another vote for Galway.

    Would add Kilkenny too. Was always hyped as the place to go to for a weekend getaway during the boom years but always found it lifeless.

    Dundrum S/C is another one.


  • #36
    solerina
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    chakotha wrote: »
    I've heard a few people say the Giants Causeway is a bit underwhelming for the hassle to get to it.


    Have to agree...it was lovely to see it but I was wondering where was the rest of it...couldn't get over how small the area actually was !!


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  • #37
    crockholm
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    Overhyped-probably Venice.Yes Canals-but not as nice as those in Brugge or Amsterdam.Byzantine architecture,yes-but not as nice as Ravenna or Verona's older architecture.Such a shame,went there hoping to be enchanted-ended up leaving early and not too pushed about returning.

    Los Angeles-never been in such a soul-less Place in my Life-would give moate a run for it's Money.

    I can understand why people left feeling a Little short-changed in Galway.Though I will give it a proper go soon and spend a few Days in the city,hopefully will change my perspective.


  • #38
    Chancer3001
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    Anybody who doesn't enjoy galway needs to go for a few pints.

    Miami is over rated.


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
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    Milan.

    Mile after mile of factories. Nice cathedral and old shopping centre beside it, rest an ugly sprawl.


  • #40
    ekimiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭ekimiam


    the curragh... its just a field.


  • #41
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    ironictoaster wrote: »
    Nandos. It's just chicken lads.

    And not particularly good chicken


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  • #42
    Magico Gonzalez
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    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    Anybody who doesn't enjoy galway needs to go for a few pints.

    Miami is over rated.

    well, that's it really. If you were to go for a day trip round galway the best part would be a tasty lunch (seafood and whatnot) with a nice pint. After that, well, ..it's not Vienna. It's all pubs, seafood, trad and decent craic with the locals. Shopping, the sights and non booze related cultural offerings are all so-so. Class for a session all the same.


  • #43
    5rtytry56
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    A suicide of sorts maybe: Renegade, Fat Christy don't take it personally.

    thethunderdome


  • #44
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Galway is reasonably good for a session, a seafood dinner and a walk on the prom. It's reputation as being amazing craic is due to a strong student population and there honestly being no competition from other towns on the west coast


  • #45
    Aidric
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    I was quite underwhelmed by Venice.


  • #46
    LorMal
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    biko wrote: »
    Sorry you didn't enjoy it. Then again it's not for everyone. I once met one other person that didn't like Galway so you're not alone.

    where did we meet?


  • #47
    beks101
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    Galway is amazing, you're clearly mental. A mad croissant, you are. You should've taken a breezy walk along the prom, stopped off for icecream in Mauds, walked into Quay street and gotten drunk whilst listening to all the mad buskers, taken a walk down by the canal, fish and chips in McDonagh's for dinner. Drive out to Connemara and absolutely sh1t yourself over how beautiful it is.

    I thought Miami was a hot and sweaty hellhole and couldn't wait to get out of Vegas.


  • #48
    Fudge You
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    Oz,
    Over hyped by many an Irish person.


  • #49
    eternal
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    beks101 wrote: »
    Galway is amazing, you're clearly mental. A mad croissant, you are. You should've taken a breezy walk along the prom, stopped off for icecream in Mauds, walked into Quay street and gotten drunk whilst listening to all the mad buskers, taken a walk down by the canal, fish and chips in McDonagh's for dinner. Drive out to Connemara and absolutely sh1t yourself over how beautiful it is.

    I thought Miami was a hot and sweaty hellhole and couldn't wait to get out of Vegas.

    Nothing beats McDonagh's.


  • #50
    suicide_circus
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    beks101 wrote: »
    Galway is amazing, you're clearly mental. A mad croissant, you are. You should've taken a breezy walk along the prom, stopped off for icecream in Mauds, walked into Quay street and gotten drunk whilst listening to all the mad buskers, taken a walk down by the canal, fish and chips in McDonagh's for dinner. Drive out to Connemara and absolutely sh1t yourself over how beautiful it is.

    I thought Miami was a hot and sweaty hellhole and couldn't wait to get out of Vegas.
    Connemara is stunning but I wouldnt describe any of the activities you outlined in Galway as "amazing" or particularly unique to Galway


  • #51
    NSAman
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    Rome, its smaller, more unfriendly and pretty boring, Florence, just exoensive and boring.

    Los Angeles, probably the most inane airheaded people I have ever met and the place IS soulless.

    Chicago, nice architecture but nothing spectacular as city.
    Eindhoven.... please get people to DO something in this city.
    MOSCOW, cold, hookers, expensive everything, chancers.

    Places of great interest

    New York, LOVE IT,,,
    Soeul, interesting and wild (just not mad about the treatment of the doggies)
    Milan, certainly NOTHING like I thought, great place and good fun food was fantastic.
    Nairobi, something completely different
    Seychelles... OH MY GOD I WANT TO RETIRE THERE....

    one more Istanbul... very very interesting


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  • #52
    bodhrandude
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    eternal wrote: »
    Nothing beats McDonagh's.

    Salthill Fish and Chip shop is good as well.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #53
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    Another bunch of moaners on a thread. A place is what you make of it usually.


  • #54
    RichT
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    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    The London eye... what a waste of money.

    As Basil Fawlty said.......

    "Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a London Eye Pod window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain..."


  • #55
    5rtytry56
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    Sligo town.


  • #56
    crockholm
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    eternal wrote: »
    Nothing beats McDonagh's.

    The Joyce and Nevin Clans beg to differ.


  • #57
    suicide_circus
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    eternal wrote: »
    Another bunch of moaners on a thread. A place is what you make of it usually.
    The tribesmen out in force


  • #58
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    The tribesmen out in force

    I'm not from Galway.


  • #59
    PowerToWait
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    eternal wrote: »
    Nothing beats McDonagh's.

    Love Galway. Fell around it for seven years, but McDonagh's has to be the most overrated fish 'n chips in Ireland. If not the world. Maybe 20 years ago but these days it's distinctly average imo.


  • #60
    eternal
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    PowerToWait wrote: »
    Love Galway. Fell around it for seven years, but McDonagh's has to be the most overrated fish 'n chips in Ireland. If not the world. Maybe 20 years ago but these days it's distinctly average imo.

    Maybe when you were 'falling around' your tastebuds were put out of sync by the unnerving laws of gravity.


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  • #61
    ianobrien
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    Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »
    The sistine chapel. hours of walking through the vatican city, looking at painting after painting, only to be landed into a room the size of a small town community hall. I was so jaded from the journey there, that I said "f*ck that" after 5 minutes and left.


    Edit - forgot to mention the fact that you're following signs for it for what seems like an eternity, before you finally get there. Its like they want you to see every other thing they have to offer, before allowing you to exit via the chapel itself.

    I have to agree with you. When I arrived in I thought "where's the rest of it?". Also, they had curtains closed to " protect it from sunlight" meaning you had to squint to see. I was the same, I left after 2 minutes. The rest of the museum was 100 times more interesting.


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