Most boring places you've visited

Tyrone212

Zaney wrote: »

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.

Nightlife wise I find Letterkenny to be better but nothing special during the day that's for sure.

gmisk

Zaney wrote: »

Casablanca comes to mind. Faded grandeur. Lots of better places in Morocco though it is a few years since I went there.

Good gin joints though surely?!

OOnegative

OOnegative wrote: »

Each to their own I suppose, I’m living in Tge Hague for the past 3.5 years and think it’s a great place to live and work.

How about to visit though?

I find the dutch friendly etc but I thought the hague was a bit dull for a visit.

OOnegative

[Deleted User] wrote: »

How about to visit though?

I find the dutch friendly etc but I thought the hague was a bit dull for a visit.

Plenty to visit and see for a weekend, again it depends what interests you. Plus having the beach if the weather is good helps. Loads of very decent bars & restaurants around the city centre.

poisonated

Another one I found boring was Glasgow

OOnegative

OOnegative wrote: »

Plenty to visit and see for a weekend, again it depends what interests you. Plus having the beach if the weather is good helps. Loads of very decent bars & restaurants around the city centre.

0 craic when I was there.

Rotterdam and other cities in the netherlands are good

Charles Babbage

Indianapolis

Salzburg, another borefest

gmisk

poisonated wrote: »

Another one I found boring was Glasgow

It can be a bit grim looking alright especially compared to Edinburgh, but the nightlife can be really good in my experience and the people are pretty sound.

Zaney

poisonated wrote: »

Another one I found boring was Glasgow

I liked Glasgow, but then I had friends who live there who showed me around. Can well imagine it’s hard to navigate without local help.

4Ad

Barcelona, was expecting more,nice sights though.
Was in Tarragona before that, looks like a kip when you get off the train but a pleasant surprise.

Bratislava, jesus.
Llandudno, home of the inbreds.
Riga, great looking women, ignorant ****s.

4Ad

4Ad wrote: »

Barcelona, was expecying more,nice sights though.
Was in Tarragona before that, looks like a kip when you get off the train but a pleasant surprise.

Bratislava, jesus.
Llandudno, home of the inbreds.
Riga, great looking women, ignorant ****s.

Bratislava is a kip alright, richman sandwiches, a chicken fillet roll is better

Fr Tod Umptious

Charles Babbage wrote: »

Indianapolis

A bit like Buffalo, Indy is another one of those US cities build recently (less than 200 years or so) in straight lines and to a system.
Very little history or natural character.

Alberquerque is another one.
Great scenery but a city just built on a grid of dual carriageways with nothing but housing development followed by shopping mall, followed by office block, followed by golf course, repeated for miles and miles.

MyLove4Satan

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

Norway is a country I have been to many times and I always feel 'sad' there.

When you travel properly - not like most Irish people - you come to understand how pretty awesome Ireland is and places like Dublin we slag off are a million times better than we realize. To be honest most of Western Europe - apart from the ancient cultural elements - is essentially a life support system before the locals eventually die.

Ireland is special regardless of if you want to admit it or not. Although we have been destroyed by the most despicable and unnecessary covid lockdown on earth so who knows if we will ever recover.

Really? Having entertained many visitors over the years, Dublin is very limited for a capital city.

Most small cities offer very little, Murcia, Oviedo failed to impress but are ok to work in I guess.

As a tourist the worst place was kilkenny in Ireland. You have a castle and...........


Then Milan. Wow was that disappointing. Guy trying to mug me at the San siro was the highlight of a bad weekend

Strumms

4Ad wrote: »

Barcelona, was expecying more,nice sights though.
Was in Tarragona before that, looks like a kip when you get off the train but a pleasant surprise.

Bratislava, jesus.
Llandudno, home of the inbreds.
Riga, great looking women, ignorant ****s.

Been to Barcelona twice and I like the place but a little overrated...

Llandudno is beyond grim, I just had time to kill there but considered killing myself there...

joeysoap

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Salzburg, another borefest

Salzburg I found OK especially around the nearby lakes. Vienna I could leave. Same with Brussels
My son would say Stockholm. I'll stick with Derby. Awful.
Málaga I enjoyed.
Newtownsteward is beyond dead. Lifford isn't much better.

joeysoap

joeysoap wrote: »

Salzburg I found OK especially around the nearby lakes. Vienna I could leave. Same with Brussels
My son would say Stockholm. I'll stick with Derby. Awful.

Newtownsteward is beyond dead. Lifford isn't much better.

Vienna is nice, I agree with you on Brussels, Salzburg is a tourist trap

Purple Mountain

gmisk wrote: »

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.

I found it dreary and depressing.
And no interaction towards tourists from business people.

poisonated

joeysoap wrote: »

Salzburg I found OK especially around the nearby lakes. Vienna I could leave. Same with Brussels
My son would say Stockholm. I'll stick with Derby. Awful.
Málaga I enjoyed.
Newtownsteward is beyond dead. Lifford isn't much better.

I enjoyed my time in Salzburg. And I have never watched the sound of music!

LillySV

Dublin

LillySV

LillySV wrote: »

Dublin

SSSShhh people that live in dublin think its better than new york or tokyo

For a tourist dublin isnt too bad as long as you know where to go

Strumms

Brussels is dullsville.

Venice is beautiful, unique, nice to look at and traveling by water taxi / gondola is a novelty but you wouldn’t want a week there, long weekend tops...not enough variety.

Strumms

Strumms wrote: »

Brussels is dullsville.

Venice is beautiful, unique, nice to look at and traveling by water taxi / gondola is a novelty but you wouldn’t want a week there, long weekend tops...not enough variety.

The best thing about belgium is the beer

Zaney

Strumms wrote: »

Brussels is dullsville.

Venice is beautiful, unique, nice to look at and traveling by water taxi / gondola is a novelty but you wouldn’t want a week there, long weekend tops...not enough variety.

Venice is one of those bucketlist places, it’s so unique. It’s one of the few places I’d forgive for being overrun with tourists. I’ve seen it once and I wouldn’t go back; but I don’t regret going there. I’d highly recommend to someone they go there once.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

SSSShhh people that live in dublin think its better than new york or tokyo

For a tourist dublin isnt too bad as long as you know where to go

Do they? I sure as hell don't

(It's better than mucksville though)

Mulbert

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The best thing about belgium is the beer

No it's not. There beer is ****e other than a couple of famous stong beers. Other than that nothing special other than Stella. The Fatherlands product is far superior.

Niner leprauchan

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Do they? I sure as hell don't

(It's better than mucksville though)

Id say a tourist could get a good two authentic days out of dublin

Mulbert

Mulbert wrote: »

No it's not. There beer is ****e other than a couple of famous stong beers. Other than that nothing special other than Stella. The Fatherlands product is far superior.

There are a good shot of nice belgium beers

Hamachi

Hyderabad in India, a place I’ve had the misfortune to visit on several occasions.

The filth and the grinding poverty is horrific. My mood on my first trip there wasn’t helped by the fact that I expended a lot of energy ensuring that I was close to a bathroom at all times. Happy memories!

Hamachi

Hamachi wrote: »

Hyderabad in India, a place I’ve had the misfortune to visit on several occasions.

The filth and the grinding poverty is horrific. My mood on my first trip there wasn’t helped by the fact that I expended a lot of energy ensuring that I I was close to a bathroom at all times. Happy memories!

That actually sounds exciting but not interesting

Strumms

Deleted User wrote: »

Id say a tourist could get a good two authentic days out of dublin

I’d say four days... there are some good tours, daytrips as well as the city stuff.

Strumms

Strumms wrote: »

I’d say four days... there are some good tours, daytrips as well as the city stuff.

Ok but are you heading in to Wicklow then?

Hamachi

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That actually sounds exciting but not interesting

Certainly recommended if you’re looking to lose weight quickly.

I returned looking like I’d done a stint in Auschwitz.

Porklife

If we had the weather Ireland would be my favourite place ever. I still love and appreciate Ireland but the climate ruins alot of potentially great days out like festivals, outdoor weddings etc. We've an amazing coastline but it's freezing and too cold to enjoy most of the year.

Murcia is another boring city. Aside from the cathedral there's nothing to do, there's no beach or a nice park even. Grim.

Mulbert

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There are a good shot of nice belgium beers

Yes but it's not the reason belgium is well know as the op was talking about. Plus Belgium is .....

Zaney

Mulbert wrote: »

No it's not. There beer is ****e other than a couple of famous stong beers. Other than that nothing special other than Stella. The Fatherlands product is far superior.

Haven’t stayed in Belgium except for a day trip to Bruges which I highly enjoyed whilst holidaying in France. But I have to say a Belgium bar in Dubai with excellent Leffe kept me sane when I needed it. For that reason I will always highly regard Belgium beer!

Hamachi

Hamachi wrote: »

Certainly recommended if you’re looking to lose weight quickly.

I returned looking like I’d done a stint in Auschwitz.

Seems to be in northern India. Somebody told me before to avoid northern India

Zaney

Zaney wrote: »

Haven’t stayed in Belgium except for a day trip to Bruges which I highly enjoyed whilst holidaying in France. But I have to say a Belgium bar in Dubai with excellent Leffe kept me sane when I needed it. For that reason I will always highly regard Belgium beer!

Leffe is a nice beer

Mulbert

Zaney wrote: »

Haven’t stayed in Belgium except for a day trip to Bruges which I highly enjoyed whilst holidaying in France. But I have to say a Belgium bar in Dubai with excellent Leffe kept me sane when I needed it. For that reason I will always highly regard Belgium beer!

Yes leffe is great, strong and one of there most famous exports.

Zaney

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Seems to be in northern India. Somebody told me before to avoid northern India

India is a challenge and the only time I went there it was 5 star all the way but it was amazing. We traveled the golden triangle and then the far north. One of the best travelling experiences of my life.

4Ad

Strumms wrote: »

Been to Barcelona twice and I like the place but a little overrated...

Llandudno is beyond grim, I just had time to kill there but considered killing myself there...

Llandudno, the place that time forgot ! I got off the train on a friday evening, everyone I met had a can in hand and were incapable of speaking, no aggression at all just very drunk.
Got on a bus to Betys- y- Coed, I dont think I've met a nicer/ frindlier bus driver !!

I still dont like Croatia..

I got abuse off a Ozzie in NZ for not visiting Australia..
I was saying 'you are the reason I wont and never will visit'...didn't go down to well..

Shakey_jake

Ireland's pretty awesome really isn't it

Peregrine

Stevanage and Holyhead were probably the worst.

I didn't really like Dubai. It all just seemed so fake. Better than Bahrain though.

NeuralNetwork

Zaney wrote: »

Haven’t stayed in Belgium except for a day trip to Bruges which I highly enjoyed whilst holidaying in France. But I have to say a Belgium bar in Dubai with excellent Leffe kept me sane when I needed it. For that reason I will always highly regard Belgium beer!

Belgium's alright. It has decent night life and bar culture, certainly in Brussels and Antwerp anyway.

Also in local bars you can just wander in and prop up the bar without any issue be it with beer or coffee, as long as you can speak French in Brussels or grasp some degree of Flemish in Flanders. They're pretty sociable.

I found France can often be very boring and increasingly cold. I know it well and for most of my teenage years too. Everyone seems to go to bed early and the nightlife is not that conducive to hanging out. Everything revolved around going to people's houses and having a circle of people to hang out with. If you are new to the place, it's very hard to break into it. Once you do it's ok though. You'll make seriously good and long lasting friendships, but just don't expect to be having the bants in a bar with strangers. It's just not done. Once you get to know people though, you're practically treated like family.

Spain's fantastic and I don't mean the tacky tourist bits. I lived in Northern Spain and it's just got a great ambience and you can head out and everyone's extremely friendly and up for being sociable and not at all unwilling to chat once you have even any kind of grasp of Spanish - enough to hold some kind of of conversation. Even 'ould ones' on the Metro in Madrid will strike up conversation at random with people just out of boredom. I've had conversations with people 3 tables away from me on rural trains too.

jmlad2020

jmlad2020 wrote: »

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.

I’d much prefer Howth to lahinch. I prefer the cliffs there to the cliffs of moher, not least because you can generally see the sea.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Id say a tourist could get a good two authentic days out of dublin

Yes. Or more. You could even get two good days out of cork. Or more. Both are good city breaks.

Gremlinertia

School bus tours in my youth were rarely a good experience but the bog of allen took the biscuit, literally sat in a peat dust bowl to eat our packed lunch. I'm mighty surprised it wasn't mentioned already

Cake Man

Not much happening in Darwin. Went there about 2 or 3 years ago on, I think it was a Thursday and to return the following Monday. I remember Monday morning we drove to the airport to ask at the desk if there were any earlier flights we could catch instead of our evening flight as we found ourselves just driving around to random places to kill time. Our mistake was probably more that we stayed too long there as you could literally do everything in 2-3 days. This was mainly crocodile spotting/feeding tours and maybe a trip to the national parks outside of Darwin.

Other than that, it’s basically just one street (Mitchell St.) with a few shops, pubs, restaurants and a small park. The worst part is that it’s always stinking hot and humid but you can’t go near any of the beaches as it’s infested with either crocs, sharks or box jellyfish It’s a shame as the beaches there are nice so it’s a bit of a tease. Wouldn’t be in a hurry to return.

Holyhead, possibly the worst town I have ever been.

I found Boston a bit of a letdown, but I was living in NY at the time so it was pale by comparison.

rossie1977

New Zealand, Vienna, Malmo, Norway, Bratislava... what in the flying f**k are these places being mentioned for

If you find any of them boring that's mostly on you. Queenstown is one of the best towns its size anywhere on Earth and that's just one place in NZ.