Most boring places you've visited

Hamachi wrote: »

Only spent a few days there, but I found Brisbane quite dull when backpacking up the east coast of Australia. We couldn’t really find anything to do there.

The highlight of my stay there was getting the shift off a somewhat rotund English girl in the backpackers hostel. I remember my buddy saying, well you’ll never see her again anyway. Which of course meant that we continually ran into her over the course of the next several months traveling around SE Asia..

Totally agree on Brisbane.
My overriding memory is lots and lots of grey high rise office towers. Zzzzzzzz

Going there directly after spells in Melbourne and Sydney didn’t help - as both those cities were wonderfully entertaining.

Hamachi wrote: »

Have to agree with this. I spent two weeks on my own in Oslo with work several years ago. It’s one of the most sterile cities I’ve ever visited. It honestly felt like being in purgatory.

I was so bored by the middle of the second week I practically begged one of the Norwegians in the office to go drinking with me. We ended up pretty wasted in a nightclub. My credit card bill was horrendous after deciding that we needed shots to get the night going. Still it was worth it as a temporary break from the tedium.

I had been on a 6 week trip across America and flew home via Oslo. I'd been booking so many flights and had so many stop overs by the time we landed all I wanted was a cold beer and a warm bed. I realised when I got to my hotel my flight home was from Copenhagen, not Oslo so there was no reason for me to even be there.
I wandered the streets all day in the freezing cold, there was literally nothing to do and it was snowing. I went into a freezing cold bar and spent about 100 euros on 5 beers. So sterile and boring. It was New Years eve too and I just wanted to go home but had to trek all the way to Copenhagen the next day to hang around there all day till my flight home.
Left a pretty sour taste in my mouth for Oslo i tells ya!

The cliffs of moher

feargantae wrote: »

Weed.

That's about all there is to get

Harsh, I love amsterdam.
Some lovely bars on the canals, a few beers and bitterballen mmm cracking and pretty reasonable food. Museums, galleries etc top notch. Really fun to cycle around too.
I have a good friend who lives there so would be over a fair bit.

Singapore. Was there for 48 hours. Walking outside the airport was like walking in to a shopping centre in winter. That blast of hot air hitting you in the face but it was surrounding you all the time. About 20 people pointed and stared at me in the street and went ohhh when they did. Not even trying to be discreet. I'm very tall guess it was that lol. Not much to do there. Very boring.

Amsterdam. Found it bland and underwhelming. Ninja cyclists everywhere.

Lastly Australia in general. Very over hyped. A high proportion of Aussies are unbearable. Going over the top about being Australian all the time. Wasn't expecting that.

Had positive experiences overall wherever else I've been.

snowstorm445 wrote: »

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.

I disagree, the Market Church is one of the strangest places in Europe with its giant inverted pentagram on the spire to fight off witchcraft. The Extersteine is not far away and one of most interesting rock formations you will encounter anywhere. Connected with Pagan cults - it was the site of the mythological Immersul tree of the Saxon tribes and the whole location oozes atmosphere. This is the location were Marianne Faithful climbed in Kenneth Anger's film Lucifer Rising. The SS castle as Wewelsburg is not far away and worth it for coming face to face with real occult nature of the Third Reich.

Yes the centre of Hanover is mostly bland shops - but the hinterland is the Germany of myth legend and amazing history.



"Boring" is subjective.

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.

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:

The desert. It is incredible and Texan people are some of the nicest in the world.

Tyrone212 wrote: »

Lastly Australia in general. Very over hyped. A high proportion of Aussies are unbearable. Going over the top about being Australian all the time. Wasn't expecting that.

Really enjoyed Australia overall, but also experienced this. If one more gob****e said to me ‘it’s a bloody great country, isn’t it mate’, I wouldn’t have been responsible for my actions.

Found Australians a mixed bag. Some of them have quite strange notions about Irish people and are carrying around attitudes that died out in Britain in the 1970s.

I’m not a huge fan of mass immigration or multiculturalism in general, but I found some of the attitudes towards Asians repugnant. I actually intervened in a Sydney cafe when two young, good looking, blonde Australian girls were remorselessly belittling the middle-aged Asian waitress. Normally, I’d never involve myself in a situation like that, but I felt desperately sorry for the poor woman, whose English wasn’t terrific, but was trying her best.

Derry - seems outwardly interesting, but place was far too quiet in the evening. Though better than Letterkenny which isn’t even interesting during the day.

Belmullet. Ice cream van on the roundabout was the highlight.