Most boring places you've visited

pollymv1

Try living in Clonmellon for 40 plus years. Awful.

Be right back

Not sure if it has been mentioned but I found Prague quite boring. Beautiful place though.

Nomis21

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I didn't really "get" Amsterdam either.

Amsterdam had its day in the 70's and 80's when it led the way in tolerance of soft drugs, smoking coffee shops, gay life and the recycling of unused buildings to create an alternative culture. Now all that's left is the sleazy side of the city such as porno shops, girls in windows and sex shows.

Ash.J.Williams

pollymv1 wrote: »

Try living in Clonmellon for 40 plus years. Awful.

I’d say you could tell us a tale or two about crazy goings on ?

road_high

fryup wrote: »

well in Holyhead defence -

in fairness we can't complain i mean Dublin Port and Rosslare aren't exactly Saint-Tropez either :cool:

If you were stuck in Dublin port either get the bus or taxi into Dublin City centre with all its delights! Nothing in Rosslare right enough but it isn’t rough. Get try getting a taxi into Wexford town I suppose, decent enough town.
Holyhead is like something they tried to “do up” in the 90s but gave up (see the pedestrian bridge from the port into town centre)

road_high

Amelia White Lightning wrote: »

I often wonder why Holyhead has never capitalised on the potential goldmine that is Irish Stag and hen parties or booze cruize parties in general. With a bit of foresight they could have developed it into something.

Its an absolute dump of a place. Must be one of the roughest spots in the UK.

One time I had the car and the highlight was stocking up in the Asda and then McDonald’s near the port!

road_high

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Haha classic. The most interesting thing to happen in Athlone was that traveller couple video years ago with the woman screaming "why do you keep riding Hippo's"

Howth's being mentioned now? Christ above. What other nice seaside towns/villages are yet to get a mention? Skerries or Dingle?

Anyone got the link to that video???!!

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

road_high wrote: »

Anyone got the link to that video???!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8C7ZTbsF-E&ab_channel=Megan.B

Ash.J.Williams

Nomis21 wrote: »

Amsterdam had its day in the 70's and 80's when it led the way in tolerance of soft drugs, smoking coffee shops, gay life and the recycling of unused buildings to create an alternative culture. Now all that's left is the sleazy side of the city such as porno shops, girls in windows and sex shows.

It’s like a block or two , last time I went I barely had a smoke there was so much going on

road_high

Was in Shrewsbury, England (Shropshire) a few years ago- lovely old English town/city centre- not sure how big it is, maybe like Kilkenny or Waterford size but could not get over the number of homeless people for a smallish, seemed well to do city

Muahahaha

Muahahaha wrote: »

Anyone ever been to Slough in the UK. The opening credits of The Office paint it as a boring grey town

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.

road_high

breezy1985 wrote: »

I have never encountered this famous Parisian rudeness and have always found them to be sound on every visit.

If you make an effort with the French and speak a little French you’ll have no bother. They’re generally very nice people but (speaking from a work perspective) sticklers for rules and detail (yes, a lot worse than Germans in my experience).

breezy1985

breezy1985 wrote: »

Cervantes was from there and they really let you know it. Everything is named after Don Quixote, Sancho or one of the donkeys. La Mancha does have great red wine though and I always look for it in offies

It has a high speed train to Madrid and an insane waste of money airport that never opened and is for sale if your looking for one. It's worth reading up on it's called you guessed it Don Quixote airport

Cervantes was from Alcala de Henares, outside Madrid. Which is very nice actually. Don Quixote is from La Mancha.

breezy1985

Deleted User wrote: »

Cervantes was from Alcala de Henares, outside Madrid. Which is very nice actually. Don Quixote is from La Mancha.

So the city has even less than the nothing I thought it had. Well at least the airport has reopened for cargo planes and a repair station.

Ash.J.Williams

road_high wrote: »

If you make an effort with the French and speak a little French you’ll have no bother. They’re generally very nice people but (speaking from a work perspective) sticklers for rules and detail (yes, a lot worse than Germans in my experience).

I always try my best and I think the french recognise that and do their best

Sky King

road_high wrote: »

If you make an effort with the French and speak a little French you’ll have no bother. They’re generally very nice people but (speaking from a work perspective) sticklers for rules and detail (yes, a lot worse than Germans in my experience).

Set in their ways is how I'd describe them. But yes, I've been in France a lot and usually have pleasant interactions with them. I can muddle through basic French so I guess it helps.

My most boring place to visit? Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. No bars. No alcohol at all in fact. No footpaths, so you can't go out for a stroll. No cultural interaction. Very insular natives, and all the actual work is done by other nationalitues. Boring as ****.

Balmed Out

Gorteen wrote: »

Fuerteventura.... I wondered how many people actually due of boredom there.....

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

I was planning my first cheap sun holiday and a guy I know swore by fuerteventura , nearly had me sold then I realised we were two very different people, he sees “all inclusive “ as “ Jaysus lad free food all day “ Then I heard of a gang of lads that were stuck there got a week bored ****less

If what you want is a drinking holiday I cant imagine anywhere in the canaries worse but for me I loved feurteventura. Stayed at the northern tip in a town called corralejo. No loud asses and nobody spending the day getting pissed, fantastic surfing and kite surfing, small beaches for the kids that were sheltered with a long stretch of shallow water, a massive beach thats so long and wide it looks like the dessert meeting the sea and plenty of excellent restaurants. Hired a car and explored the island there is the more normal style resorts in the centre that didn't look attractive but the north and the south were lovely.

If you want activities then corralejo is a great choice, of you want to hit clubs and pubs all the time than stay away.

For Forks Sake

breezy1985 wrote: »

So the city has even less than the nothing I thought it had. Well at least the airport has reopened for cargo planes and a repair station.

It's inadvertently found it's calling in life as a storage area for planes that airlines have no use for during Covid (think I see an Aer Lingus one in the second photo)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-01/spanish-ghost-airport-reinvents-itself-as-park-for-idle-jets

6541

Balmed Out wrote: »

If what you want is a drinking holiday I cant imagine anywhere in the canaries worse but for me I loved feurteventura. Stayed at the northern tip in a town called corralejo. No loud asses and nobody spending the day getting pissed, fantastic surfing and kite surfing, small beaches for the kids that were sheltered with a long stretch of shallow water, a massive beach thats so long and wide it looks like the dessert meeting the sea and plenty of excellent restaurants. Hired a car and explored the island there is the more normal style resorts in the centre that didn't look attractive but the north and the south were lovely.

If you want activities then corralejo is a great choice, of you want to hit clubs and pubs all the time than stay away.

We go to Corralejo all the time. You get real value there. You can get massive modern accommodation for a fraction of the what you would pay anywhere else in the Canaries. The reason is the retort is basically new. Some really class, cosmopolitan pubs. Like proper bars not the small Spanish excuses for bars. World class outdoors stuff to do as well.

Rodin

Monaco.

Reminded me of Torremolinos.
Why would you have a sports car in that cramped environment ?
Awful place.

Saying that, the coast between Nice and Monaco is beautiful, particularly around Eze and Eze sur Mer

bullpost

breezy1985 wrote: »

Cervantes was from there and they really let you know it. Everything is named after Don Quixote, Sancho or one of the donkeys. La Mancha does have great red wine though and I always look for it in offies

It has a high speed train to Madrid and an insane waste of money airport that never opened and is for sale if your looking for one. It's worth reading up on it's called you guessed it Don Quixote airport

Its also got a University, though that would be impossible to tell by just wandering around the City. no sign of young, vibrant people like you get in most University towns.

Mad_maxx

Hamilton New Zealand is incredibly boring , thankfully its pretty close to some nice towns and Auckland is not that far up the road

hahashake

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Hamilton New Zealand is incredibly boring , thankfully its pretty close to some nice towns and Auckland is not that far up the road

The Coromandel beaches, Raglan and the Ruapehu ski fields not too far either.

But yes, Hamilton is very dull.

fryup

Donegal, the Donegal of the 1980's mind...went for a camping holiday there with my folks as a moody teenager and it rained every single fukin day!

Bored out of my tonsils - on the verge of leaving them there and taking the bus home i was so p1ssed off, etched in my mind so it is

FrankN1

Alicante...

Shiok

Long-term Singapore resident and I am so surprised by how many people recall my adoptive home of the little red dot as one of the most boring places they have ever visited!

After nearly ten years here, I could chew the ear off anyone willing to hear grievances (from continually being asked what my husband does to the cockroach I found in my toaster), but boring is not a word that I would use.

I somewhat get it, you step off the plane in desperate need of air-con and seem to be guided towards Marina Bay or Orchid only to be met by repetitive shopping centres. If you got as far as the ‘touristy’ parts of Chinatown, Little India or Kampong Glam, you probably ventured farther than most.

Singapore loves being a must-visit tourist destination & in my opinion seems to cleverly keep visitors where it wants them. It is unabashedly designed to be beautiful (& full of some of the best amenities) for Singaporeans. Even I don’t want to be bothered when wandering around my favourite local neighbourhoods or by lots of photos been taken of the view behind me on a roof-top bar. The best Singapore Sling is not to be found in Raffles, the best city view is not the from the top of the MBS, the best hawker centre is not Newton and you are not going to have the night of your life in Clarke Quay, despite what the SG tourism and many guide-books tell you to the contrary. And whatever you do, don’t trust any source that recommends the Singapore Flyer!

A little bit of research, you can easily find all the gems. I will never tire of the palm trees naturally growing among streets of old Shophouses, the heat, city lights, early morning runs past tai chi classes of 80 year olds, chats with taxi uncles and old Chinese customs and traditions - all the while still being able to go into M&S to pick up percy pigs.

You want beach clubs? Tick. You want jungle hikes? Tick. You want a Michelin star dinner for $5? Oh yeah. Countless best-in-the-world bars & restaurants? Tick. Water adventure parks / Universal Studios? Yup. Modern & colonial architecture? Tick. Temples of all faiths that will welcome you inside? Yes. Authentic wet markets & Kopi? Tick. You want WW2 bunkers / history? Fair enough, each to their own. And if you happen to come during one of the festivals (CNY, Hari Raya, Deepavali etc) or F1 you are in for a real treat.

Please don’t be put off visiting, it is a fab city for a stopover on any trip to SEA. Beyond its shiny surface, it is a feast for the senses, especially for first-time visitors to Asia. I don’t even miss chewing gum..

RandomViewer

fryup wrote: »

Donegal, the Donegal of the 1980's mind...went for a camping holiday there with my folks as a moody teenager and it rained every single fukin day!

Bored out of my tonsils - on the verge of leaving them there and taking the bus home i was so p1ssed off, etched in my mind so it is

Well it rains in the other 31 just as much and you can only get so wet, we'd rain today, first in a fortnight,
A miserable cold wet day in Donegal is still going to be a 100 times better than a cold wet day in Offaly

Witchie

Shiok wrote: »

Long-term Singapore resident and I am so surprised by how many people recall my adoptive home of the little red dot as one of the most boring places they have ever visited!

After nearly ten years here, I could chew the ear off anyone willing to hear grievances (from continually being asked what my husband does to the cockroach I found in my toaster), but boring is not a word that I would use.

I somewhat get it, you step off the plane in desperate need of air-con and seem to be guided towards Marina Bay or Orchid only to be met by repetitive shopping centres. If you got as far as the ‘touristy’ parts of Chinatown, Little India or Kampong Glam, you probably ventured farther than most.

Singapore loves being a must-visit tourist destination & in my opinion seems to cleverly keep visitors where it wants them. It is unabashedly designed to be beautiful (& full of some of the best amenities) for Singaporeans. Even I don’t want to be bothered when wandering around my favourite local neighbourhoods or by lots of photos been taken of the view behind me on a roof-top bar. The best Singapore Sling is not to be found in Raffles, the best city view is not the from the top of the MBS, the best hawker centre is not Newton and you are not going to have the night of your life in Clarke Quay, despite what the SG tourism and many guide-books tell you to the contrary. And whatever you do, don’t trust any source that recommends the Singapore Flyer!

A little bit of research, you can easily find all the gems. I will never tire of the palm trees naturally growing among streets of old Shophouses, the heat, city lights, early morning runs past tai chi classes of 80 year olds, chats with taxi uncles and old Chinese customs and traditions - all the while still being able to go into M&S to pick up percy pigs.

You want beach clubs? Tick. You want jungle hikes? Tick. You want a Michelin star dinner for $5? Oh yeah. Countless best-in-the-world bars & restaurants? Tick. Water adventure parks / Universal Studios? Yup. Modern & colonial architecture? Tick. Temples of all faiths that will welcome you inside? Yes. Authentic wet markets & Kopi? Tick. You want WW2 bunkers / history? Fair enough, each to their own. And if you happen to come during one of the festivals (CNY, Hari Raya, Deepavali etc) or F1 you are in for a real treat.

Please don’t be put off visiting, it is a fab city for a stopover on any trip to SEA. Beyond its shiny surface, it is a feast for the senses, especially for first-time visitors to Asia. I don’t even miss chewing gum..

I agree. People are horrified that I stay in Gaylang when I visit but (pardon the pun) you get more bang for your buck there. I hated Singapore the first time I went. I felt ripped off.

Then I had to go back and spent time wandering around Little India, having dinner in the dome on top of the Mustafa Centre after uncovering the delights in this higgledy-piggledy Indian department store.

I loved Gardens by the bay the time I went. It had an Enid Blyton festival on and really was like being in one of my favourite childhood books, the Magic Faraway Tree.

That said, I prefer Kuala Lumpur. It's got all the home comforts and an exciting city with a lovely climate. I always say KL is like Singapore only rougher around the edges and a bit more soul.

magick

Temecula California.
Just car dealerships and fields

Witchie

magick wrote: »

Temecula California.
Just car dealerships and fields

Lots of really boring one horse towns in California.

Ubbquittious

Singapore is great when a thunderstorm has just finished

silverharp

Slough in England , The Luftwaffe either didnt bomb it enough or bombed it too much

fryup

RandomViewer wrote: »

Well it rains in the other 31 just as much and you can only get so wet, we'd rain today, first in a fortnight,
A miserable cold wet day in Donegal is still going to be a 100 times better than a cold wet day in Offaly

yes point taken, but back then there was nothing as an alternative no arcades no funfairs and who wants to go to the seaside when its raining? bear in mind i was an easily bored moody teenager "Lets go home!" was my constant cry on that trip :mad:

road_high

RandomViewer wrote: »

Well it rains in the other 31 just as much and you can only get so wet, we'd rain today, first in a fortnight,
A miserable cold wet day in Donegal is still going to be a 100 times better than a cold wet day in Offaly

Offaly gets a bad rap sometimes but there are parts of Offaly that are so beautiful- like the Slieve blooms and all down into Kinnitty. Really gorgeous, like a mini alpine setting and no one else about usually

PeggyShippen

fryup wrote: »

yes point taken, but back then there was nothing as an alternative no arcades no funfairs and who wants to go to the seaside when its raining? bear in mind i was an easily bored moody teenager "Lets go home!" was my constant cry on that trip :mad:

Well it actually rains about 20% less in Cork than Donegal and its sunnier. They can even let the cattle out about a month and a half earlier from their winter sheds.

forumdedum

pollymv1 wrote: »

Try living in Clonmellon for 40 plus years. Awful.

If I knew where it was I'd join in the discussion :-)

RandomViewer

PeggyShippen wrote: »

Well it actually rains about 20% less in Cork than Donegal and its sunnier. They can even let the cattle out about a month and a half earlier from their winter sheds.

When it floods in parts of Donegal its a once in a lifetime event, when it floods in Cork its probably just another Tuesday

silliussoddius

fryup wrote: »

Donegal, the Donegal of the 1980's mind...went for a camping holiday there with my folks as a moody teenager and it rained every single fukin day!

Bored out of my tonsils - on the verge of leaving them there and taking the bus home i was so p1ssed off, etched in my mind so it is

Ye just weren’t wanted!
We used to rent a house over the summer and I used to pity some of them having to endure their holiday of liquid sun.

swimming in a sea

Witchie wrote: »

Then I had to go back and spent time wandering around Little India, having dinner in the dome on top of the Mustafa Centre after uncovering the delights in this higgledy-piggledy Indian department store.

I spent hours browsing the Mustafa Centre, great spot.

I was there for a month about 10 years ago, I loved it. I love the heat, my brother was working there at the time living in the little India area. Not a place i remember for having a beer, very expensive but would gladly spend some time there again if opportunity came up.