Most boring places you've visited

snowstorm445 · 09-04-2021 9:42pm #1

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?

Gregor Samsa · 09-04-2021 9:54pm

snowstorm445 wrote: »

is there anywhere you've been to that you found totally forgettable?

None that I can remember.

Andrewf20 · 09-04-2021 10:10pm

The state of Texas. Considering its size, there is almost nothing in it. Some of the cities are nice like San Antonio but its a fews hours drive through totally flat plains between cities.

Dallas was a particularly banal place. I drove up on a Sunday and it was like a ghost town. Like alot of american cities, there no shops downtown. Its more a business district. At one point, I was standing on the block corner & took a photo up a few blocks without a single person in view in the heart of the city.

Heres what it was like, almost no cars or people out walking:

bigar · 09-04-2021 11:03pm

Most boring was a very long stretch of road that all American Petrolheads and Bikers regard see as the holy grail: Route 66. There is nothing to see or do for hundreds and hundreds of miles.

Dr. Bre · 09-04-2021 11:04pm

Singabore

Balmed Out · 09-04-2021 11:06pm

Andrewf20 wrote: »

The state of Texas. Considering its size, there is almost nothing in it. Some of the cities are nice like San Antonio but its a fews hours drive through totally flat plains between cities

Houston, Austin, San Antonio all great cities but get what you mean though think Australia a better example of this.

dd973 · 09-04-2021 11:26pm

Westbury in Wiltshire for two weeks, God it was dull.

FintanMcluskey · 09-04-2021 11:28pm

Stoke-on-Trent

Never seen the likes

[Deleted User] · 09-04-2021 11:32pm

Amsterdam

GT89 · 09-04-2021 11:33pm

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.

Uncle Mclovin · 09-04-2021 11:34pm

Enniskillen.

GT89 · 09-04-2021 11:35pm

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is also very boring one street with a supermarket, a train station and a shop selling tourist tat.

jmlad2020 · 09-04-2021 11:36pm

Dortmund is up there.

I also found Howth to be incredibly underwhelming when I visited... I grew up on the west coast, beautiful scenery etc.. I just thought it didn't deserve the amount of Tourists it was getting in comparison to some other places in Ireland.

It's all personal preference.

Gamergurll · 09-04-2021 11:39pm

GT89 wrote: »

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is also very boring one street with a supermarket, a train station and a shop selling tourist tat.

No one wants to live there, they would never remember how to spell their own address!

BanditLuke · 09-04-2021 11:43pm

Ireland : Salthill

Europe : Stockholm

UK : Norwich

America : Buffalo

Australia : Perth

Asia : Osaka

alchemist33 · 09-04-2021 11:46pm

Ipswich. On a visit to London I spent a night with a friend out in the sticks. We went to the cinema and I have never seen more dead streets outside of a zombie film.

Oh, and Holyhead. If you're overnighting there before the ferry home, get in as late as you can.

Del.Monte · 09-04-2021 11:47pm

The Corlea Trackway in County Longford is without doubt the most boring place I ever set foot in. https://heritageireland.ie/places-to-visit/corlea-trackway-visitor-centre/

I see sheep · 09-04-2021 11:49pm

BanditLuke wrote: »

Ireland : Salthill

Europe : Stockholm

UK : Norwich

America : Buffalo

Australia : Perth

Asia : Osaka

Perth is very boring. And full of Australians

joeysoap · 09-04-2021 11:49pm

Derby deserves a mention.

Lewis_Benson · 09-04-2021 11:50pm

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 get you with sligo town, I was there for a couple of nights in 2007, its got nothing going for it.
Out around Rosses Point etc is lovely though.

smokie72 · 09-04-2021 11:51pm

boards.ie

Lewis_Benson · 09-04-2021 11:51pm

We used to pass through Clonmellon on the way to Belfast years ago, talk about a place with nothing in it.

EmmetSpiceland · 09-04-2021 11:52pm

Malmö.

Holyhead wasn’t great either. Thankfully, wasn’t stuck there for too long.

Roadtoad · 09-04-2021 11:54pm

Boring, Oregon.

I win.

Porklife · 09-04-2021 11:56pm

Unless you're into surfing, I found San Diego really boring.

Got stuck in Oslo on my own one New Years eve and couldn't wait to leave. There's nothing to do and a pint cost about 12 euro in a soulless bar. Even the Christmas markets were lame.

Often though a place is what you make of it and who you're with, your frame of mind and general disposition plays a part too. Anywhere can be interesting if youre with the right person or in a happy mood. Anywhere except Oslo..that place just sucks!

castletownman · 09-04-2021 11:57pm

Medjugorje.

Only a whistle-stop visit out of pilgrimage season on the way to Mostar, but it just seemed void of anything to do apart from commercialised Catholic merchandise shops. I know a few people who go over every year (in normal times), and I just cannot see how you could stay any longer than the length of a mass there.

I was impressed by the toilets at the grotto though.

jayjay2010 · 10-04-2021 12:04am

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

None that I can remember.

...I see what you did there

For me, Holyhead. Pretty sure we went there on a Sunday and everything was closed..... even the bloody beach!! Ended up sitting in a pub all day waiting for the return ferry to Ireland. Awful trip.

My other half would say Ottawa was boring. Personally, I liked it, absolutely spotless and pleasant to walk through. Not much going on there though. We did end up in a nice Irish bar in the end.

silliussoddius · 10-04-2021 12:06am

I see sheep wrote: »

Perth is very boring. And full of Australians

Ah now Cottesloe

Fr Tod Umptious · 10-04-2021 12:06am

BanditLuke wrote: »

Ireland : Salthill

Europe : Stockholm

UK : Norwich

America : Buffalo

Australia : Perth

Asia : Osaka

Salthill used to be lively on Thursday night back in the '80s and '90s.

I'd agree with you on Buffalo, the downtown area has not much going for it.
But that's pretty much the same with a lot of midsized US cities as you head away from the older places on the coast.

GT89 · 10-04-2021 12:12am

alchemist33 wrote: »

Ipswich. On a visit to London I spent a night with a friend out in the sticks. We went to the cinema and I have never seen more dead streets outside of a zombie film.

Oh, and Holyhead. If you're overnighting there before the ferry home, get in as late as you can.

Saying Holyhead is just boring is being very fair. It's an absolute sh1thole.

Sharpyshoot · 10-04-2021 12:15am

COVID test centre Limerick.

Most boring places you've visited

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