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Cities you'd never return to

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  • #1442
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    Warsaw its like the Cork of Poland.

    Shìte?


  • #1443
    Schadenfreudia
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    Warsaw its like the Cork of Poland.

    Is that good or bad IYHO?

    Naples - I was there during its ten year (or whatever) Mafia bin strike; amazing piles of rubbish, surreal when you think it was in a G7 country!

    It was like taking a trip in the local rubbish dump - before we closed them all down.


  • #1444
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,594 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Straight Talker wrote: »
    I wouldn't blame this man if Dublin is a city he wouldn't want to go back to.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/opinion-dublin-random-violence-gardai-2231721-Jul2015/

    I was in Liverpool last week and the difference between there and Dublin was like night and day.Sure Liverpool has it's bad element as well but there isn't any no go areas in the city centre like you have in Dublin with O'Connell Street and scumbags and thugs do not hold it's busiest streets to ransom.Although i like Dublin especially around St Stephens Green and the georgian area it's just that the O'Connell Street area is a place i prefer to avoid.

    How was the bus trip?


  • #1445
    madaboutdogs1x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭madaboutdogs1x


    Pigalle in Paris! Haha mind you I was about ten when I went there, was such a tacky place Probly still is too ..


  • #1446
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Heerlen in the Netherlands, a big Slough full of drug tourists, the Dutch hate it as well.


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  • #1447
    JacquesSon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 758 ✭✭✭JacquesSon


    dd972 wrote: »
    Heerlen in the Netherlands, a big Slough full of drug tourists, the Dutch hate it as well.

    Tell me more.

    Slough is underrated. A Dutch Slough might just be the new adventurous Blackpool.


  • #1448
    dan1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    It's not my favourite place but anyone saying Paris probably hasn't traveled much further than Paris.


  • #1449
    JacquesSon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 758 ✭✭✭JacquesSon


    dan1895 wrote: »
    It's not my favourite place but anyone saying Paris probably hasn't traveled much further than Paris.

    True words.

    I won't ask you for a favourite, but what's your medium recommended City?


  • #1450
    dan1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    JacquesSon wrote: »
    True words.

    I won't ask you for a favourite, but what's your medium recommended City?

    Hard to answer. I've been to some fantastic places but both Rome and Madrid are places I've been to numerous times that I like a lot but wouldn't be in my top 5 places.


  • #1451
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,594 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    dan1895 wrote: »
    It's not my favourite place but anyone saying Paris probably hasn't traveled much further than Paris.

    I wouldn't say it's crap but I wouldn't return in a hurry.


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  • #1452
    JacquesSon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 758 ✭✭✭JacquesSon


    dan1895 wrote: »
    Hard to answer. I've been to some fantastic places but both Rome and Madrid are places I've been to numerous times that I like a lot but wouldn't be in my top 5 places.

    No offence, but that's bland beyond the definition.

    Surely you've gone further than that?

    If you fly Ryanair you can pass significant sites on the bus into town.


  • #1453
    dan1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    JacquesSon wrote: »
    No offence, but that's bland beyond the definition.

    Surely you've gone further than that?

    If you fly Ryanair you can pass significant sites on the bus into town.

    Yes but those places where either out of this world amazing or absolute hell holes.
    If I haven't mentioned it before Cuidad del Este is one **** hole I never want the misfortune of returning to.


  • #1454
    JacquesSon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 758 ✭✭✭JacquesSon


    dan1895 wrote: »
    If I haven't mentioned it before Cuidad del Este is one **** hole I never want the misfortune of returning to.

    Cuidad is always an interesting prefix, 'del Este' just adds to the mystery.

    It's not 15mins from Cancun is it?

    ed. I've never been to Central America.


  • #1455
    dan1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    No, Paraguay. All I wanted to do was leave.


  • #1456
    JacquesSon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 758 ✭✭✭JacquesSon


    dan1895 wrote: »
    No, Paraguay. All I wanted to do was leave.

    Im picturing "Banged Up Abroad" now. :)


  • #1457
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,920 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    dan1895 wrote: »
    It's not my favourite place but anyone saying Paris probably hasn't traveled much further than Paris.

    Why so? The thread asks for a city you'd never return to, not your most hated city.


  • #1458
    Tropheus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,947 ✭✭✭Tropheus


    Istanbul. The best part was the road back to the airport.


  • #1459
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Glasgow is satans **** bowl


  • #1460
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Cody montana wrote: »
    I wouldn't say it's crap but I wouldn't return in a hurry.

    Paris isn't that bad. I think people just don't explore it properly, get stuck in the touristy bits where they're treated like scum by the rip off tourist oriented places who serve you bad coffee for €10 and treat you badly because they don't care if you never come back as there's another bus load of fresh customers / victims every 5 minutes.

    Paris has much more interesting bits, they're just not immediately obvious in a short trip. It also has really much better food if you're prepared to go for a bit of a wander and do some research online or get local advice.

    I've always found it an amazing city for a proper bit of urban exploring. It's got huge amounts of interesting history and architecture and quirky places.

    I think a lot of people arrive in CDG (not a wonderful airport), get on a smelly train arrive in the centre and see the stereotypical stuff and that's it.


  • #1461
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    JacquesSon wrote: »
    True words.

    I won't ask you for a favourite, but what's your medium recommended City?

    For me, Prague.


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  • #1462
    WellThen?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 358 ✭✭WellThen?


    Kashmir- India.War torn. On the border with Pakistan, beautiful Himalayas surrounding you but my god I was so upset the whole time.

    We opted to stay a week on a barge type thing on a river. Was really nice scenery. Some driver guy collected us and told us we were never to travel unattended EVER. Felt more like a prison than a barge. Police with huge guns everywhere, pointing them at people passing to move them quicker up the street. We could only eat what was given and our host gave us no privacy. He literally ate every meal with us and hung around until we asked him to leave every night.

    We were going gaga on this ****ing boat so one day we decide to hop on a smaller one and make our way to land alone. I was 19 and not quite understanding how important it was to have a bodyguard. We had 5 guys chase us down and nearly rugby tackle us to the ground screaming at us. They told us that we would be killed immediately if we go off alone.

    Back to the barge we go. That night i hear fireworks all over land, turns out it was gunshots. Cue to the morning we get to land and people lying dead everywhere. We left that morning. Really horrific.


  • #1463
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    I'd give Amsterdam a skip in future. Was there twice and just really disliked it on both occasions. Second time was a bit of an accidental trip for a conference.

    Just found it really rough. I had some guy deliberately run into me and then attempt to demand money because he dropped his pipe!

    Assumed he was trying to attack me so, automatic response was to arm block him which is how he ended up losing whatever it was he was smoking.

    Also just found the whole city a bit sleazy.

    Brussels has a bit of that sleazy vibe too but it's more rundown that just sleazy.


  • #1464
    mg1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭mg1982


    A city i would never return too is Bacau in eastern Romania. I can remember driving into the place and there being piles of rocks on either side of the road. It just wasnt a very nice place. Although if my memory is right there was an airforce base there so we were able to see a lot of Mig-21 fighter planes in the sky.


  • #1465
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,277 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    SpaceTime wrote: »
    Paris isn't that bad. I think people just don't explore it properly, get stuck in the touristy bits where they're treated like scum by the rip off tourist oriented places who serve you bad coffee for €10 and treat you badly because they don't care if you never come back as there's another bus load of fresh customers / victims every 5 minutes.

    Paris has much more interesting bits, they're just not immediately obvious in a short trip. It also has really much better food if you're prepared to go for a bit of a wander and do some research online or get local advice.

    I've always found it an amazing city for a proper bit of urban exploring. It's got huge amounts of interesting history and architecture and quirky places.

    I think a lot of people arrive in CDG (not a wonderful airport), get on a smelly train arrive in the centre and see the stereotypical stuff and that's it.

    I took the train from London. Right as we walked out of the station there was a fight between a group of people and a shop owner. But we chose not to get on the underground there and walked the entire time. It was very nice. Unfortunately we encountered some chuggers along the way but nothing too bad. Paris turned out to be one of my favorite European cities that I've visited. Much nicer than Rome, I also liked it more than London or Amsterdam.

    Don't know why people dislike Florence so much. I thought that was a very pretty city


  • #1466
    PowerToWait
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭PowerToWait


    I have to admit, I'm going to judge someone who dismisses Paris as a 'dirty kip' or somesuch.

    You could never be bored in Paris. Not with even the most remote sense of romance (meaning mystery, not St. Valentine's) or history or imagination. The place is steeped, drenched, soaked in history, art, literature, revolution, gastronomy, intrigue.

    It's a true melting pot as well. All life is there really. To borrow from Samuel Johnson, when a man is tired of Paris he is tired of life. I love it.


  • #1467
    sigmundv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭sigmundv


    WellThen? wrote:
    Back to the barge we go. That night i hear fireworks all over land, turns out it was gunshots. Cue to the morning we get to land and people lying dead everywhere. We left that morning. Really horrific.

    Jaysus. Any particular reason you went on holiday in a war torn region?


  • #1468
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,135 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    WellThen? wrote: »
    Kashmir- India.War torn. On the border with Pakistan, beautiful Himalayas surrounding you but my god I was so upset the whole time.

    We opted to stay a week on a barge type thing on a river. Was really nice scenery. Some driver guy collected us and told us we were never to travel unattended EVER. Felt more like a prison than a barge. Police with huge guns everywhere, pointing them at people passing to move them quicker up the street. We could only eat what was given and our host gave us no privacy. He literally ate every meal with us and hung around until we asked him to leave every night.

    We were going gaga on this ****ing boat so one day we decide to hop on a smaller one and make our way to land alone. I was 19 and not quite understanding how important it was to have a bodyguard. We had 5 guys chase us down and nearly rugby tackle us to the ground screaming at us. They told us that we would be killed immediately if we go off alone.

    Back to the barge we go. That night i hear fireworks all over land, turns out it was gunshots. Cue to the morning we get to land and people lying dead everywhere. We left that morning. Really horrific.
    Jesus, you went to a warzone and are complaining that it was a warzone?
    Reminds me of Ian Rush when asked what was Italy like. "I couldn't settle in, it was like living in a foreign country"


  • #1469
    thomur
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 279 ✭✭thomur


    Madam wrote: »
    Perhaps I can show you around the best parts of Glasgow - no city in my opinion is beyond finding something interesting about it. Glasgow being a city of Empire has a lot going for it (shopping the best outside of London, great bars and nightclubs, the friendliest people on these here Islands, architecture to my mind better than Dublin or any city in Ireland). Weather can be a bit dreary though.

    Have to say I was there for the football last year and thought it was lovely. Have been in Edinburgh a few times and thought Glasgow was going to be the ugly sister after all I heard about it but loved it. PS: Don't go into the Horseshoe bar wearing Irish gear. Was grabbed by a few of the locals and not released till we sang Flower of Scotland.


  • #1470
    0gac3yjefb5sv7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,947 ✭✭✭0gac3yjefb5sv7


    Belfast...


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  • #1471
    kurtainsider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭kurtainsider


    Oh sorry. I thought that Belfast was a given.


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