Places you just "dont get"

[jodal]

Geneva.

Oooooh, you're not going to like our news then.

 

[coley]

London
Blackpool
Skegness
Scotland,
LA
Malta
Dubai
La Paz
Zagreb
Melbourne
Nearly forgot, Germany.

 

[Pickman's model]

la is a lady, coley

 

[coley]

la is a lady, coley

It's also a shitty city in the Baja peninsula.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's also a shitty city

what a pity

 

[weltweit]

Ghent / Gand / Gent

In "the low countries" that I often get directed to when getting muddled on the motorways. The name on the signs changes as you cross into various small countries according to local languages. I did once actually end up in the town when I should have been elsewhere. It was nicer than expected but I continue to try to avoid it!

 

[trashpony]

Gent is lovely

They speak three different languages in Belgium - you're not in different countries

 

[weltweit]

Gent is lovely

They speak three different languages in Belgium - you're not in different countries

Oh, ok ... the signs always confuddle me
I suppose there is Waloon (is there) nope .. don't know .. which languages do they speak trashpony?

 

[Orang Utan]

Brighton 'beach'

 

[trashpony]

Oh, ok ... the signs always confuddle me
I suppose there is Waloon (is there) nope .. don't know .. which languages do they speak trashpony?

French (Wallon)
Flemish (Dutch dialect)
German

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Rome. Don't rate it one little bit.

 

[oryx]

Brighton 'beach'

Oh yes - couldn't believe it the first time I went there and it was all pebbles!

 

[Puddy_Tat]

West London, North London, East London,

^ that

 

[Orang Utan]

Oh yes - couldn't believe it the first time I went there and it was all pebbles!

i would not describe a shoreline covered in pebbles as a beach, let alone try to lure people to it as if it was a good thing. eastbourne isn't far away. why don't people go there instead? baffled i am.

 

[uk benzo]

Washington DC; it's boring as fuck. Museums are: America this, America that.

 

[A. Spies]

Double yeah to whoever said Las Vegas, shittest place on earth. But also to not getting the US then going there and it being brilliant - think we mainly don't get it cos they only show the shit bits on TV.

 

[A. Spies]

And I think ghent is nice, nice people who are friendly to lost tourists, nice bars, nice canals/ architecture, nice art. lovely city.

 

[weltweit]

And I think ghent is nice, nice people who are friendly to lost tourists, nice bars, nice canals/ architecture, nice art. lovely city.

I don't have anything against the place, it is just the magnetic effect the road signs have on me that whenever I approach from any angle I end up going there rather than where actually I wanted to go!

 

[Manter]

Have we had Dubai yet? Why oh why oh why?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Florida
Las Vegas
Nashville
Mexican border towns.

Any place where glitz overcomes substance.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Yorkshire

 

[gentlegreen]

Weston Super-Mare.
I've never considered it the proper seaside.
You never actually see the "sea" - which is really a river.
By all accounts it's handy for people who live in the Midlands ....

Ditto Cheddar - only been there in recent years on the way back from camping - tacky tacky tacky - last time we breakfasted in a nostalgia place filled with tat from my 60s and 70s childhood ...

Elderly relatives with cars used to take us to both places as kids ...

 

[hash tag]

Lands End. Its that place at the tip of the South West. You have to pay to visit and it's full of tacky, crude tourist tat.

 

[Epona]

i would not describe a shoreline covered in pebbles as a beach, let alone try to lure people to it as if it was a good thing. eastbourne isn't far away. why don't people go there instead? baffled i am.

It's not just pebbles either at some points, don't hobble under any pier without something covering the soles of your feet, for general health and safety reasons.

Once spent a very unpleasant night in Brighton having missed the last train back and failed to find a B&B with a room available, tried to kip on the pebbles as less likely to moved on from there than from a bench and it was utter fucking misery.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Any place where glitz overcomes substance.

Amazingly, Niagara Falls Canada is tacky as fuck, worse than Vegas (nearly). On the other side Niagara Falls USA is a pleasant upstate New York city, with a modest and peaceful park overlooking the falls.

 

[weltweit]

Lands End. Its that place at the tip of the South West. You have to pay to visit and it's full of tacky, crude tourist tat.

You have to go to Land's End before leaving for John O'Groats

 

[hash tag]

Lands end is the sort of place that, if it has to be owned, by someone like the natiional trust. Somewhere like this should really not be a disneyesque theme park. For the trip north start at st just, sennan cove or anywhere but there.

 

[mod]

Ibiza.

 

[renegadechicken]

Bournemouth - once the capital of the blue rinse mafia, now the home of hen and stag parties and bugger all else.