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Dominican Republic. It was very pretty and I had a nice time but it was one of those places where you just felt that they were putting the arm in everywhere you went. You had to pay both an entry fee and exit fee on arrival and departure from the country, so it was just continual. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Don't think there's anywhere I wouldn't revisit, few people I wouldn't revisit 
I have a few of them myself, wonder wth I was thinking at the time  "
Oh we all have a few of them ones lol |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
"The Giants Causeway "
Since my only visit to this much-lauded tourist attraction decades ago, I agree with Doctor Samuel Johnson's critique of TGC.
"Worth seeing, but not worth going to see!"  |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
"Whats wrong witg lurgan very fond of my wee town people are great craic
And some of them even have a great crack!
Was in Detroit once - very depressing place, awful poverty"
I really love 1960s Motown music, but Detroit Michigan now more resembles a third world country with pervasive poverty and decay, than the former Motortown that was at the very heart of American prosperity, American popular music and the so-called American Dream.
It is now derided as the Rust Belt of America.  |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
East Berlin. I crossed over the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie, controlled by the American Army, and then across the Death Zone which was then guarded by 9,000 Ovtcharkas (dogs).
East Berlin, at that time had barely changed since WW2, and was one of the most intimidating places to visit; Stasis police everywhere.
Since 1991, I can never visit East Berlin ever again, because the USSR controlled DDR no longer exists, mercifully.
As one resident said of his life in East Berlin,"We live like dogs here, constantly under surveillance by the Stasi."
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"Trabolgan. Paying the extra for centre parcs will be worth it
God brought my first 2 to Trabolban 20 odd years ago but thought it was heaven after Butlins Mosney "
Had fond memories of it when i was younger (captain croc club lol) it was abysmal when we went a couple of years. Actually ended up coming home early. Made a complaint. Management didnt give a shit |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
Khabarovsk, in the Russian Far East, just across the River Amur from China; and one railway stop away from Vladivostok on the Trans-Siberian Express railway to Moscow.
A bleak city, pot-holed roads, soviet-style high rise buildings and fear etched on the populace's faces. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
"Lough Derg  "
Do you mean the place near Pettigo where people (of faith) voluntarily starve themsemes, walk barefoot over muddy stones, and stay in a windswept building that resembles a Victorian-era prison, with the objective of somehow strengthening their delusional belief in a fabricated shepherd from Wales.
Formerly, elderly Catholics used to speak approvingly of this island on a lake, but I haven't heard Saint Patrick's Purgatory mentioned in decades, especially in mainstream Irish media.
Have young people come to their senses and are staying away?  |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
"The Vatican. Creeped me out and the most disgusting toilets I’m ever experienced  "
I note the The Pope, the head of an organisation that still regards women with the Catholic Church as second class citizens, and that abused and exploited Irish catholic girls for generations has issued a New Year international press release about violence against women in society. |
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"I don’t think there is any place I wouldn’t revisit "
Actually I have thought of a place and that would be the war museum in Ho Chi Minh city. I don’t regret going, it was an eye opening experience and I would recommend it but having seen it I wouldn’t want to go back. |
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By *affa31Woman
over a year ago
Galway |
"The Vatican. Creeped me out and the most disgusting toilets I’m ever experienced
Thats because they don't allow women so they never designed toilets for them "
More the rivers of piss. They don’t seem to be a big fan of cleaning |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
"The Vatican. Creeped me out and the most disgusting toilets I’m ever experienced
Thats because they don't allow women so they never designed toilets for them
More the rivers of piss. They don’t seem to be a big fan of cleaning"
And this can of lager was going down so well |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Lough Derg "
I actually took a wee drive to here last year and it was one of the most peaceful tranquil places, I've ever been. We just sat on the pier watching a guy fish, it was an amazing sunny evening. |
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"The Vatican. Creeped me out and the most disgusting toilets I’m ever experienced
Thats because they don't allow women so they never designed toilets for them
More the rivers of piss. They don’t seem to be a big fan of cleaning"
Cleanliness clearly not next to Godliness then |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
""Worth seeing, but not worth going to see!"
There you go Jubal, the funniest thing you've ever posted and it's a quote by someone else "
It's one of the best quotes I have ever come across; I first heard that quote in a English Literature class a long time ago.
Dr. Johnson was a very erudite educated man, who was widely travelled in his time, and widely quoted.
It aptly describes the Giant's Causeway; I would never go to see it again.
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
" NYC, dirty, chaotic, robbery "
During an earlier part of my life, I managed to get Green Card, and went to live in New York.
I hated the place: at that time it was indeed dirty, corrupt, crime-ridden, pervasively dangerous, and best avoided.
It tainted my view of that enormous diverse country. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
The most distressing place I ever visited was the Nazi's (very first) Dachau Concentration Camp just outside Munich in Bavaria.
It brought me to tears; the evil insanity of a massive facility designed to intern, subjugate, humiliate, dispossess and ultimately murder personae non gratae (unwelcome people) from a formerly cultured European society.
If you go to one of these Nazi camps once, you won't want to return! |
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By *ezoMan
over a year ago
The Kingdom |
"Trabolgan. Paying the extra for centre parcs will be worth it
God brought my first 2 to Trabolban 20 odd years ago but thought it was heaven after Butlins Mosney
Had fond memories of it when i was younger (captain croc club lol) it was abysmal when we went a couple of years. Actually ended up coming home early. Made a complaint. Management didnt give a shit"
Ah another who was a part of the Captain Croc Club. I remember back in the day fondly in Trabolgan. But things were different in those days.
Place I would never revisit, Connecticut. While I did meet 4 lovely ladies from there and in general the people I met were nice and a joy to talk to, the place was abysmal. |
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Place I would never revisit, Connecticut. While I did meet 4 lovely ladies from there and in general the people I met were nice and a joy to talk to, the place was abysmal."
I lived there briefly, would have to agree. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Temple Bar. It was the most overrated spot but for the name sake I had to check it out. Never again!
Yes I’m with you on this  Kip "
Was great years ago. Now it's too commercialised and reeks of piss. |
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By *ezoMan
over a year ago
The Kingdom |
"Temple Bar. It was the most overrated spot but for the name sake I had to check it out. Never again!
Yes I’m with you on this Kip
Was great years ago. Now it's too commercialised and reeks of piss. "
Never been, and probably never will, heard it is just a tourist trap. Had a sibling go there, say it was God awful and vow against ever going there again. |
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"Lough Derg
I actually took a wee drive to here last year and it was one of the most peaceful tranquil places, I've ever been. We just sat on the pier watching a guy fish, it was an amazing sunny evening. "
For scenery etc it is tranquil and even beautiful but as pilgrimage ohhhh noooooooo |
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Two cities in South America. Matanzas in Cuba, an industrial port city away from tourist areas. We were lucky to get out the there in one piece. Abject poverty and the side of Cuba they don't want you to see.
Belfast, we been really unlucky or its just a kip. I've had work vans damaged because of the Southern reg plates. Been spat at and abused for being dubs (we aren't dubs  ) and the night of her graduation in Belfast we got more of the same while out for drinks and the bar man in the well know pub said if we aren't okay with that type of attention we should f*#k off back down south...so we did. Beautiful city but Jesus it needs a lot more chill. Hopefully this year we will get to experience some more terrible towns  |
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"Two cities in South America. Matanzas in Cuba, an industrial port city away from tourist areas. We were lucky to get out the there in one piece. Abject poverty and the side of Cuba they don't want you to see.
Belfast, we been really unlucky or its just a kip. I've had work vans damaged because of the Southern reg plates. Been spat at and abused for being dubs (we aren't dubs ) and the night of her graduation in Belfast we got more of the same while out for drinks and the bar man in the well know pub said if we aren't okay with that type of attention we should f*#k off back down south...so we did. Beautiful city but Jesus it needs a lot more chill. Hopefully this year we will get to experience some more terrible towns "
Bigotry is still strong in the 6 counties I see |
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"Two cities in South America. Matanzas in Cuba, an industrial port city away from tourist areas. We were lucky to get out the there in one piece. Abject poverty and the side of Cuba they don't want you to see.
Belfast, we been really unlucky or its just a kip. I've had work vans damaged because of the Southern reg plates. Been spat at and abused for being dubs (we aren't dubs ) and the night of her graduation in Belfast we got more of the same while out for drinks and the bar man in the well know pub said if we aren't okay with that type of attention we should f*#k off back down south...so we did. Beautiful city but Jesus it needs a lot more chill. Hopefully this year we will get to experience some more terrible towns "
You just need a better tour guide next time |
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By *ezoMan
over a year ago
The Kingdom |
"Two cities in South America. Matanzas in Cuba, an industrial port city away from tourist areas. We were lucky to get out the there in one piece. Abject poverty and the side of Cuba they don't want you to see.
Belfast, we been really unlucky or its just a kip. I've had work vans damaged because of the Southern reg plates. Been spat at and abused for being dubs (we aren't dubs ) and the night of her graduation in Belfast we got more of the same while out for drinks and the bar man in the well know pub said if we aren't okay with that type of attention we should f*#k off back down south...so we did. Beautiful city but Jesus it needs a lot more chill. Hopefully this year we will get to experience some more terrible towns
Bigotry is still strong in the 6 counties I see "
Yup and the brexit will not be helping the situation. No offense to those from Northern Ireland.
I remember a story from someone I know where mobs of people would swarm their house in the North hurl stones and abuse. |
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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in Co. Down |
"Two cities in South America. Matanzas in Cuba, an industrial port city away from tourist areas. We were lucky to get out the there in one piece. Abject poverty and the side of Cuba they don't want you to see.
Belfast, we been really unlucky or its just a kip. I've had work vans damaged because of the Southern reg plates. Been spat at and abused for being dubs (we aren't dubs ) and the night of her graduation in Belfast we got more of the same while out for drinks and the bar man in the well know pub said if we aren't okay with that type of attention we should f*#k off back down south...so we did. Beautiful city but Jesus it needs a lot more chill. Hopefully this year we will get to experience some more terrible towns
Bigotry is still strong in the 6 counties I see
Yup and the brexit will not be helping the situation. No offense to those from Northern Ireland.
I remember a story from someone I know where mobs of people would swarm their house in the North hurl stones and abuse."
I've lived up here for years and I've never had anyone give me grief at any stage even on nights out in Belfast . |
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"Two cities in South America. Matanzas in Cuba, an industrial port city away from tourist areas. We were lucky to get out the there in one piece. Abject poverty and the side of Cuba they don't want you to see.
Belfast, we been really unlucky or its just a kip. I've had work vans damaged because of the Southern reg plates. Been spat at and abused for being dubs (we aren't dubs ) and the night of her graduation in Belfast we got more of the same while out for drinks and the bar man in the well know pub said if we aren't okay with that type of attention we should f*#k off back down south...so we did. Beautiful city but Jesus it needs a lot more chill. Hopefully this year we will get to experience some more terrible towns
Bigotry is still strong in the 6 counties I see
Yup and the brexit will not be helping the situation. No offense to those from Northern Ireland.
I remember a story from someone I know where mobs of people would swarm their house in the North hurl stones and abuse."
Wow that is awful, certainly more than enough to put people off coming to the North. |
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"Two cities in South America. Matanzas in Cuba, an industrial port city away from tourist areas. We were lucky to get out the there in one piece. Abject poverty and the side of Cuba they don't want you to see.
Belfast, we been really unlucky or its just a kip. I've had work vans damaged because of the Southern reg plates. Been spat at and abused for being dubs (we aren't dubs ) and the night of her graduation in Belfast we got more of the same while out for drinks and the bar man in the well know pub said if we aren't okay with that type of attention we should f*#k off back down south...so we did. Beautiful city but Jesus it needs a lot more chill. Hopefully this year we will get to experience some more terrible towns
Bigotry is still strong in the 6 counties I see
Yup and the brexit will not be helping the situation. No offense to those from Northern Ireland.
I remember a story from someone I know where mobs of people would swarm their house in the North hurl stones and abuse.
I've lived up here for years and I've never had anyone give me grief at any stage even on nights out in Belfast ."
I worked in Belfast on and off for donkeys years, had a base there for 17 years and maybe it's just because it's more male in groups thinking the have a historic point to prove. I've never had one of our female employees complain about abuse but we kept a tab for insurance and over 30k worth of damage to cars vans and equipment. Not a single cent of damage at any of our other four bases in the country. We closed out doors there in 2018 for staff safety issues, don't regret it for second.
I've made some life long friends from my time there and I'm sure there are people with far more positive stories than I have. That said it's just got a bad vibe about it if you are from the south. No joy in a city where you have to actively watch yourself and your accent on a night out. Hopefully things will change in time but right now there's not a hope I would bring family up |
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By *ilderMan
over a year ago
dublin |
"Inverness Oh no! That's one of my favourite places"
I found the People to appear a bit inbred ??. I know it's very cut off and all that but I got a bad vibe off the place. Went to a nightclub and had a meathead want to start a fight with me, thankfully I dodged that but even up to that point I wasn't impressed. I met a scot a few years later that lived there for a while herself, she wasn't surprised by my story. |
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By *ant111Man
over a year ago
Dublin 6 |
"I didn't enjoy London! found the place so cold ( not weather wise cold) people not friendly, no one talks to you , too fast paced ( hark at the auld County girl giving out )
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Found they had less hang ups over there. Swinging now. Maybe they've been doing it a bit longer. No bulmers and tayto and back to the hotel room .
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Milan, had my bag stolen and the city was just full of designer shops, boring. "
Gotta agree with you, worth maybe a day trip but that's all.
Though if anyone is thinking of heading that way, lake como is great. Only about an hour by train north |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
"Milan, had my bag stolen and the city was just full of designer shops, boring.
Gotta agree with you, worth maybe a day trip but that's all.
Though if anyone is thinking of heading that way, lake como is great. Only about an hour by train north "
I wanted to see a painting of The last supper |
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By *abbingMan
over a year ago
Belfast |
"Two cities in South America. Matanzas in Cuba, an industrial port city away from tourist areas. We were lucky to get out the there in one piece. Abject poverty and the side of Cuba they don't want you to see.
Belfast, we been really unlucky or its just a kip. I've had work vans damaged because of the Southern reg plates. Been spat at and abused for being dubs (we aren't dubs ) and the night of her graduation in Belfast we got more of the same while out for drinks and the bar man in the well know pub said if we aren't okay with that type of attention we should f*#k off back down south...so we did. Beautiful city but Jesus it needs a lot more chill. Hopefully this year we will get to experience some more terrible towns
Bigotry is still strong in the 6 counties I see
Yup and the brexit will not be helping the situation. No offense to those from Northern Ireland.
I remember a story from someone I know where mobs of people would swarm their house in the North hurl stones and abuse.
I've lived up here for years and I've never had anyone give me grief at any stage even on nights out in Belfast .
I worked in Belfast on and off for donkeys years, had a base there for 17 years and maybe it's just because it's more male in groups thinking the have a historic point to prove. I've never had one of our female employees complain about abuse but we kept a tab for insurance and over 30k worth of damage to cars vans and equipment. Not a single cent of damage at any of our other four bases in the country. We closed out doors there in 2018 for staff safety issues, don't regret it for second.
I've made some life long friends from my time there and I'm sure there are people with far more positive stories than I have. That said it's just got a bad vibe about it if you are from the south. No joy in a city where you have to actively watch yourself and your accent on a night out. Hopefully things will change in time but right now there's not a hope I would bring family up"
wow, that sounds grim - maybe Im naive but Ive had some mates from Dublin, Galway and Louth visit Belfast many times over the years with no issues, - but to be fair having lived in Belfast for many years, I wouldnt ever go out or visit the parts of the city where you would tend to find the sorts of knuckle draggers that would cause that sort of trouble and thankfully I've never encountered it!
It never ceases to amaze me that there are parts of belfast where the locals have never been out for a night in the city centre....and selfishly I hope that continues, as they are exactly the type of folk who will have been hurling the abuse!
I could be wrong but I'd be surprised if the brexit thing was any sort of factor - the majority of NI voted against it and those who are making currently making most noise about it were those that supported the project all along! |
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By *abbingMan
over a year ago
Belfast |
For an experience I'd say the holocaust museum in Berlin - genuinely harrowing to see what people went though just a generation ago. Worth seeing out of respect for the suffering, but wouldnt want to revist it.
Destination wise I'd add my vote for New york
It was an experience seeing the madness of it all but not somewhere I'd want to return as it was manic, unfriendly and stupidly expensive
Passing what I presume was a homeless person shitting into a newspaper in the middle of the footpath, at 2pm in the afternoon just round the corner from my ridiculous over priced Manhattan hotel was a particular highlight 
I suppose he at least used a newspaper!!
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By *dfabMan
over a year ago
Dunboyne |
Halong Bay!
Beautiful out on the water seeing the limestone columns and a few beaches.
Not so good if you stay there and have to dodge the rats on the mainland
Just do the day trip from Hanoi |
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"Halong Bay!
Beautiful out on the water seeing the limestone columns and a few beaches.
Not so good if you stay there and have to dodge the rats on the mainland
Just do the day trip from Hanoi "
I did an over night trip while in Hanoi and stayed on the boat. One of the most beautiful places I’ve seen |
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Cairo and Giza
Poverty and dirt is dire, why can they have so much military and not look after basic stuff.
How people live there, the chaos. Knowing if you ate a salad you were looking for a holiday to the loo.
Never again!
Giza, so looked forward to the incredible sight of the pyramids but it is spoilt by the hasslers, beggars and assholes. |
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By *s LollyWoman
over a year ago
The pub then supermacs ... |
"Cairo and Giza
Poverty and dirt is dire, why can they have so much military and not look after basic stuff.
How people live there, the chaos. Knowing if you ate a salad you were looking for a holiday to the loo.
Never again!
Giza, so looked forward to the incredible sight of the pyramids but it is spoilt by the hasslers, beggars and assholes. "
This 100% |
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"Venice, place stunk of sewage
Mr
Agree - the aul septic tanks don’t work great underwater!!"
I remember seeing an Asian couple getting married in St Marc's square in November years ago, everything flooded. They were literally knee deep in water. God, I felt sorry for them...
I never understood why it's romanticised as it is. The place was a kip...in my humble opinion.
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By *asual777Man
over a year ago
i travel all over |
"I didn't enjoy London! found the place so cold ( not weather wise cold) people not friendly, no one talks to you , too fast paced ( hark at the auld County girl giving out )
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I am biased but it’s magnificent . Completely unaffordable though |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
"Cairo and Giza
Poverty and dirt is dire, why can they have so much military and not look after basic stuff.
How people live there, the chaos. Knowing if you ate a salad you were looking for a holiday to the loo.
Never again!
Giza, so looked forward to the incredible sight of the pyramids but it is spoilt by the hasslers, beggars and assholes.
This 100% "
Ha ha....glad I'm not the only one |
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