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To ask what you dreamed would be fabulous but is actually maybe a bit shit

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hitsvilleuk · 10/04/2021 11:00

I think this about lots of things to do with celebrity lives, when I was younger I thought it all would amazing now not so sure.

A particular one I have is that I always longed for a villa on the Italian lakes. We went to a hotel there one year for 5 days ( in the same village as George Clooney ) It pissed down for 3 days. Everything was dark and damp and that combined with the endless queuing for flights and the thought of maintaining a property in another country sort of did for the dream. Not achievable without a lottery win anyway but now I don't even want it.

Anyone else got stuff like this or that they actually got and then thought 'meh'. I seem to have it about more and more things as I get on - I just don't want stuff anymore. Is it just to do with age?

OP posts:
ivykaty44 · 10/04/2021 15:57

The Maldives. Very limited on food

I imagine plenty of seafood and salad dishes with tropical fruit

MaliceOrgan · 10/04/2021 15:58

Asparagus

jessstan2 · 10/04/2021 15:59

@Laiste

Someone's going to say heaven next!

Shock and Grin at some of these. Sorrento and the Sistine Chapel - i feel i must stick up for both of these! And the pyramids. Yes, the city is encroaching on the desert but they are still breathtaking.

So mine is - big house. It's knackering and expensive.

Heaven!
GizmoBasil · 10/04/2021 15:59

@ChazP I came on to say Glastonbury festival too!

I'm a bit of a hippy at heart and was so looking forward to it. Been twice now and it's all just a bit....shit.
The weather obviously has a huge impact and, despite what the guardian may want us to believe, no one is having the time of their life diving into mud, mostly they are trudging from one place to another, miserable and stinking and everything takes twice as long because its huge.
I've been when the weather was brilliant as well and it just feels a bit try hard. "ISN'T THIS GREAT??? ISN'T GLASTO AMAZING???? GREAT GREAT FUN FUN FUN"

I remember a big queue forming in some underground cave club so without knowing what it was we queued up for about 45 mins, only to get to the front and it literally being a dark corridor you walk through with some fairy lights in it. Came out the other end like Hmm

And with all the different tents and areas, its very very hit and miss and you very much have to be in the right place for anything spontaneous to happen, which with it being so vast is very difficult.

Went out one night for a dance, but every tent and area plays such niche music we were just trawling from one massive area to another from dub step, to heavy metal, to house, they was nothing to just DANCE to.
We ended up having a boogie by a pancake stand that had a radio on playing Britney Grin

BritWifeinUSA · 10/04/2021 15:59

Big weddings.

Tahiti - for the same reasons as a PP gave for the Maldives.

Going away with friends.

Laiste · 10/04/2021 16:00

Penzance (in the 90s)

I had The Pirates of Penzance in my mind and had an image of a beautiful natural cove with crumbling cliffs and caves and little fishing boats and 100 year old pubs with thick glass lead-light windows.

Nope. It was like Uxbridge on Sea :(

However the rest of Cornwall was lovely and, iirc, Mousehole (the next day) was everything Penzance wasn't and cheered me up completely :)

vixeyann · 10/04/2021 16:00

New York. I was so excited but felt so let down. Service was terrible everywhere we went and it felt very hostile on the subway (been on many other undergrounds round the world and felt fine). The Empire State at night is the only good memory I have of the place.

Laiste · 10/04/2021 16:01

jessstan2 Grin

thefurriesthen · 10/04/2021 16:01

@osbertthesyrianhamster NZ Tourism's marketing has been first class, you can't deny them that!

I wouldn't want to put people off going for a visit, if they fancy it, but I would think very carefully about living there. There really is nothing there that we don't have in the UK - other than deserted beaches, and even they get a little old after a while, when there isn't much else to do!

ivykaty44 · 10/04/2021 16:02

Afternoon tea at Claridges. Rubbish and so, so expensive. Beautiful setting but such disappointing food.

I thought it was reasonable - and £10 for a glass of champagne is only £3 more than my local pub for a glass of wine in a suburban market town.Serve and cakes etc I enjoyed tbh

opinionminion · 10/04/2021 16:02

Marriage

Crinkle77 · 10/04/2021 16:03

The races. You spend all the time on your feet and queuing at the bookies, bar, toilets, food van etc... so much time is spent queuing there's no time for relaxing and enjoying the day.

Tana433 · 10/04/2021 16:03

We visited the Moulin Rouge and i had it in my head it would be full of glamourous people like Nicole Kidman and Ewan Mcgregor (ok, not actually but it is my favourite film so i could dream!) What a let down! My mum thought it was hilarious when i reported back to her and my dad that it was "Just a grotty red windmill stuck on top of a seedy strip club!"

Sarahtrue11 · 10/04/2021 16:03

Los Angeles

I thought it would be glamorous. It was one of the worst places I have ever seen. Homeless people everywhere, and the most aggressive homeless people I have ever seen anywhere. I saw a homeless man in a wheelchair shouting at an Asian woman, calling her an Asian bitch, and then he ran over her foot in the wheelchair.

Homeless people pushing trolleys of belongings on every street.

Crack addicts everywhere. People having full conversations with themselves on every street corner.

I was in a McDonalds in Los angeles, and a man came in and said "Hey John ! There you are", and walked over and sat down in a booth and had a full conversation with some one who wasn't there . In the middle ofhte day.

I went to Santa Monica beach, and it was full of crack addicts shouting at people that were not there.

I went to Echo park, which is a very beautiful park in LA, and the whole park was full of tents with homeless people inside. It was like a little shanty town.

Violence and guns everywhere.

I think it is the worst place that I have ever seen

BritWifeinUSA · 10/04/2021 16:04

@ivykaty44

The Maldives. Very limited on food

I imagine plenty of seafood and salad dishes with tropical fruit

Fish, yes but salad? Nope. Hardly anything grows. The soil is very poor in agricultural terms and there is hardly any available space to grow things. Most things are imported.
thenightsky · 10/04/2021 16:04

Agree with a PP who said a conservatory. Ours was huge and it was still useless. It was just a place insects went to die.

Osrie · 10/04/2021 16:05

Venice - but only because I could not afford anything once I’d paid for my gondola ride!

Growing from seed - but only because I don’t have the strength to dig properly or the money to buy all the extras you need to grow things properly.

“ BFFs” ( hate that term) - but only because I've ended up with ones who declare our friendship is more than it really, crowd you then just as you are getting used to their ways they only bother with gushing messages out of the blue now and again for some weird reason.

WowIlikereallyhateyou · 10/04/2021 16:05

New York
The Races
Paris... yes to all.

Shedbuilder · 10/04/2021 16:07

Tickets for the Six Nations rugby tournament in Cardiff. Wales v Ireland. Cost £125 each. We were seated low-down in one of the corners and had no idea what was happening on the pitch unless it was right in front of us. Bloke behind us spilled his pint all over us and I had a drunk Irish man sitting half in my lap during the first half and then with his head on my shoulder snoring, for the second half. Much better on TV.

contraversial2021 · 10/04/2021 16:08

Hamilton

WowIlikereallyhateyou · 10/04/2021 16:08

Los Angeles also shit, but Venice away from the tourist traps is one of my favourite places, so much to see, never get bored of it.

Cottagepieandpeas · 10/04/2021 16:08

I liked Claridges too. I’d love to stay there for a night (Anyone done that?).
If I make it and it’s disappointing I’ll report back.

Marriage and Mr Frosty have certainly caused a multitude of disappointments, judging by this thread. (I have experienced neither Grin )

LunaNorth · 10/04/2021 16:09

The Epcot Centre.

Cringeingly dated.

JustJustWhy · 10/04/2021 16:09

Romantic relationships and Brazilian blow drys.

Osrie · 10/04/2021 16:09

Sorry just re read heading and oops never dreamt of BFFs but still people go on about having them and ime they are nothing special to go on about