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Where's somewhere you've visited but wouldn't want to go back to?

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00100001 · 22/07/2021 11:51

Positive and negative!

I went to Las Vegas, glad I went, but no desire to return! :)

Would never return to Warwick Castle. It's quite over rated...and not much even happened there, it just looks the part! :)

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brokenbiscuitsx · 22/07/2021 15:41

*(DH wants to go to New York but I think it will just be another place like 'London' or 'Birmingham' which he also hates but just full of Americans instead of cockneys and brummies which might be even worse lol)

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DappledThings · 22/07/2021 15:42

@CoralFish

Walsingham - pilgrimage village in Yorkshire. It was very empty and had a sort of creepy vibe.
Norfolk! Unless there's a different Yorkshire than connects Harrogate, Walsingham and Bath Grin
olivethegreat · 22/07/2021 15:45

@bananabuddy3 I went to Petra just after we bombed Iraq and it was just me my mate and two other tourists in the entire site !

Reckon now it could be a good time to go as well....

Cam77 · 22/07/2021 15:45

@RisingSunn
Singapore is a cool modern city, but yeah not worth 11 hour flight! Perhaps you could have taken a short ferry to one of the neighbouring Indonesian islands?

olivethegreat · 22/07/2021 15:46

Been to the Isle of Wight twice and underwhelmed . Locals very unwelcoming on my recent trip. Best thing is the ferry.

DismantledKing · 22/07/2021 15:46

@ThreeKneeRepeater

Ha ha Dismantled. Roy’s of Wroxham. He’s everywhere.
That’s the one
HarebrightCedarmoon · 22/07/2021 15:47

Walsingham has such a lovely atmosphere.

HarebrightCedarmoon · 22/07/2021 15:48

The Norfolk one Smile.

olivethegreat · 22/07/2021 15:48

Barcelona was great in the day but on New Year's Eve at midnight there was Pisa running down the streets EVERYWHERE. Awful.

Parky04 · 22/07/2021 15:48

Las Vegas (actually the whole of the USA) and Rome.

IntermittentParps · 22/07/2021 15:49

The Bath/Harrogate thing has been clarified.

CustardySergeant · 22/07/2021 15:50

Thanks very much waterlego. I won't be able to go to any of those places in person (am old and creaky), but will have a wander round virtually, thanks to Google Street View. Smile

Vancouver has been voted the world's most liveable city many times, so I was very surprised to see it mentioned negatively on this thread. All towns and cities have their bad areas, but Vancouver and its surrounding area have a heck of a lot of positive things going for them.

Redapplewreath · 22/07/2021 15:50

Loved Walsingham. Particularly the two different shrines where the C of E one is silent and solemn and full of candles, and the Catholic one is a noisy, busy, openly commercial Religion-by-Tescos kind of experience with picnics and holy water taps.

HipTightOnions · 22/07/2021 15:52

Bourton-on-the-water. I was there yesterday. So was everyone else.

Spacehairdresserandthecowboy · 22/07/2021 15:52

Fuertaventura - absolutely awful

Cam77 · 22/07/2021 15:53

@ThreeKneeRepeater

I wouldn’t go back to China.
It was somewhere I had always been fascinated by, but I found it such an alien culture. While this interested me, it was also quite sad. Our female tour guides were only allowed to tell us what they had been told we should know. Their lives were dictated and insular. One was amazed that we had our own house in England with a shower, as accommodation there for poorer people is communal. They lived in one room with three generations. They had never heard of most major European cities, and the most that our young guide in Beijing aspired to was to visit Shanghai. We were shoved aside at times to make way for male ‘party members’, who were feted and celebrated. The contrast in excessive wealth and poverty was extreme in a communist country. Manners are unheard of. -
We were only allowed to go to ‘tourist’ restaurants and given what they thought we should eat.
The air was thick and yellow, and you could taste the pollution.
I’m glad I went though

Are you you didn't get dropped off in N. Korea by mistake? Sorry, but it sounds like you must have gone with a tragically awful tour company. That said, any tour is a pretty bad way to get a feel for the country. It's a bit like experiencing the US by getting whipped around the tourist sites of New York and Chicago in a coach.

waterlego · 22/07/2021 15:53

Absolutely @CustardySergeant! Many people enjoy a very high quality of life there, it was plain to see. Enjoy your Google Street View wanderings!

olivethegreat · 22/07/2021 15:54

Not pisa. That would be weird. PISS

notnowbernadette · 22/07/2021 15:57

Fuerteventura- very hot, no shade, lack of variety of things to do

YellowColour · 22/07/2021 15:57

New York - been twice and hated it both times.

Comedycook · 22/07/2021 15:59

Nice....vile place unless you're loaded

FogHornInTheAttic · 22/07/2021 15:59

Benalmadena in Spain.Shithole.

mabelandivy · 22/07/2021 16:00

Bognor - one of the most depressing places I've ever been. No desire to ever return.

BarbaraofSeville · 22/07/2021 16:02

Norfolk! Unless there's a different Yorkshire than connects Harrogate, Walsingham and Bath

Well they do say it's God's own county. The Lord moves in mysterious ways and all that.

FourteenthDoctor · 22/07/2021 16:04

Venice and Seville

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