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Places you've been underwhelmed by

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HannaPintura · 20/01/2018 20:59

I just love going away and have really loved most places. One place in particular really Underwhelmed me...Gibraltar...just like Britain in the sun! I'm sure it has so much to offer, but I couldn't wait to cross the border back to Spain!

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billybagpuss · 20/01/2018 21:49

Ok clearly on a limb here - I loved San Fransisco.

MsHarry · 20/01/2018 21:49

LUUUURRRRVE Cornwall.

saladdays66 · 20/01/2018 21:50

Sutton Hoo. It was all fake. The boat had rotted away. All the treasure was atvthevBritish Museum. Disappointing!

shinygoldstars · 20/01/2018 21:50

Agree with Malta and Venice. Also Marrakech for me, I expected to love it but it was just very orangey brown and hassley (next time went to Essaouira instead which is now one of my favourite places).

AntArcticFox · 20/01/2018 21:50

I like bridges so I'd probably like the Humber bridge just as well, especially with some atmospheric fog!

londonrach · 20/01/2018 21:51

Laurie..Venice is stunning and one of my favouite places to visit but you have to leave the main streets....there so much to see. We loved the jewish quarter alot. The best part of venice is to get lost. Shocked re people not liking oxford...again get away from the main streets...just get lost...i could show you parts of this city you love! Agree re stone henge and i studied it for two years...avebury so much better

TalkinPeace · 20/01/2018 21:51

Chatsworth / the Churchills : yeah right - wrong house / wrong family

saladdays66 · 20/01/2018 21:51

Ha ha, and yes - the Severn Bore! What a letdown.

OTOH, I love Paris, Vancouver and London, and can’t understand how people can feel underwhelmed by an entire country.

MsHarry · 20/01/2018 21:52

I love Oxford too.

OohOohMrPeevly · 20/01/2018 21:53

AntarcticFox - for me Winchcombe has a magical quality - I love it's remoteness and it's architecture and lovely old pubs. Another favourite is Broadway especially at christmas.

MsHarry · 20/01/2018 21:53

Winchcombe was nice. Is that the one near Sudely Castle?

chockaholic72 · 20/01/2018 21:53

Another vote for Dublin. Not much different from any other city (and it pissed it down the whole weekend while at home in Manchester the flags were cracking with a glorious Indian summer).

Shame about Matala in Crete - I went around 1985 on a family holiday as a kid, and it was lovely.

Linnet · 20/01/2018 21:53

Paris, I was so disappointed as I’d always wanted to go. Dh and I went 21 years ago and I’ve never wanted to go back. The traffic was terrifying, it was very dirty, people were rude and don’t even get me started on the sate of some of the toilets I saw.

londonrach · 20/01/2018 21:54

Agree re dublin and sadly the two other towns i saw of ireland...it rained, was cold and no food!!!! On the fence re cornwall...ive family living there but everytime i visit it rains and when it rains it really rains and seems come up from the ground as well as down from the sky

MsHarry · 20/01/2018 21:55

No food in Dublin??? What?

Roussette · 20/01/2018 21:55

Totally and utterly shocked at the hate for Venice and the Alhambra! Went to Venice for 10 days, you need to leave the tourist bits, it is truly wonderful. The Alhambra is one of my most fave places to go, I love love love it.

The Canaries. Been to every island more than once. Hate them all. Only went because it's hot in winter.

londonrach · 20/01/2018 21:56

Loved new york!!!!!! Its a city built in the 1920s. Stunning buildings, amazing food...soooooo much history!!!! It blow me away and one of my places i most was impressed with

Slippery · 20/01/2018 21:56

Niagara Falls - horribly tacky.
Scotland - wet, grey and full of midges.

TulipsInAJug · 20/01/2018 21:57

Vancouver. Dull, soulless, no heart to it. Suburbs full of desperate looking junkies wandering around with shopping trollies.

Edinburgh. Seemed small, a bit drab, dank, dark and oppressive.

Dublin, I agree, has little going for it - and I used to live there.

I liked Barcelona OK but it doesn't live up to the hype.

Amsterdam - just seedy.

TheSconeOfStone · 20/01/2018 21:57

Dublin. Found it boring and expensive.

New York was sticky, humid, dirty, loud and unfriendly. Not a place to be a backpacker. It was 20 years ago and apparently it has improved, or so I am told by the many fans trying to persuade me to give it another try.

Stratford on Avon.

Didn't mind Gibraltar. We were passing though and I had no expectations. I liked the view from the rocks and the barbary apes. I also like the duty free.

MsHarry · 20/01/2018 21:57

Scottish Highlands in October. Stunning and no midges.

AntArcticFox · 20/01/2018 21:57

I'd be happy to live in Vancouver for a while, walking around the harbour area and park was nice.

However for a holiday trip it was underwhelming with a very seedy druggie area downtown that we wandered into from Chinatown.

Being able to take a ferry to Vancouver Island saved it for us really.

AnElderlyLadyOfMediumHeight · 20/01/2018 21:57

Yes to Dublin. I think it's a place you have to live in/know very well to love.

Luxembourg.

GnomeDePlume · 20/01/2018 21:58

I'm another who was underwhelmed by Venice. An awful lot was closed for renovation so had big tarpaulins up showing what the various buildings should look like. The bell tower is a 1912 reconstruction.

Probably didnt help that we were living in the Netherlands at the time so canals werent a novelty.

Iflyaway · 20/01/2018 21:58

Little Havana in Miami.

I was expecting a busy neighbourhood with cafes etc. (been to Cuba) but it's one street surrounded by suburbia!