Worst Five Places You Have Visited

[London Calling]

Following the best five tourist places, what are the worst five towns and cities you have visited:

Burnley,
Middlesborough,
Barnsley,
Nord de Calais,


And I have to say the biggest let down was Porto. The river stank with pollution, it was dilapidated, dirty, very bleak in places especially the shanty areas along the river, in the centre behind the Cathedral, addicts were openly injecting.

Yes it had plus points: pints of wine at 50p, port etc but so did every other Portuguese town.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Croydon
Croydon
Croydon
Croydon
Croydon

Plus point - You can get a train direct to Brighton

 

[The Large One]

And I have to say the biggest let down was Porto. The river stank with pollution, it was dilapidated, dirty, very bleak in places especially the shanty areas along the river, in the centre behind the Cathedral, addicts were openly injecting.

Nooooooo! Can't have that. It's beautiful, man. The river didn't stink any more than, say, the Mersey, which is about the same width. The port and fish were superb, the people friendly, and place was one big party. Mind you, that was during the middle of Euro 2004.



My five worst are

Whitehaven
Grange over Sands
Redcar
Ebbw Vale
Basingstoke
Milton Keynes

Yeah, I know that's six, but so what?

 

[Bluejuice]

I know we have reason to hate Croydon for its local club but even regardless of the scum the place is a proper shitpit.

Deeply soul destroying to have to spend time there.

and to the list I would have to add:

Weymouth
Dudley
Wigton, Cumbria
Piraeas (port of Athens)
and Reading (the only place I've ever been mugged, and twice)

 

[bhaexpress]

Istanbul
Chattanooga
Newark
Dieppe
Oldham

 

[CHAPPERS]

Corby
Crewe
Rotherham
Portsmouth
Watford

 

[Trufflehound]

(With grateful thanks to Copy and Paste)

Merthyr Tydfil
Pontypridd
Ebbw Vale
Port Talbot
And, er, Linz in Austria (got hopelessly lost in an industrial estate there once and have despised the place ever since).

 

[Grendel]

La Rochelle - though this is more to do with a crap holiday there than any intrinsic hatred of the place.
Boscastle (even before it got washed away) - horrible little tourist town full of commercial shite and small children
Manchester - probably being a bit harsh here. I actually found it strangely fascinating, but in a bleak, desolate, "what am I doing here freezing my nuts off with a frankly hideous woman" sort of way.
Bognor - say no more

And finally....
Haywards Heath - having spent most of my life there has done nothing whatsoever to convince me of its good qualities that the local council seem to come out with whenever it's criticised. Ghastly little town full of ghastly people (with some notable exceptions)

 

[Caveman]

Wembley the area
Bradford
Croydon
Croydon
Croydon

 

[Deleted User X18H]

1)Tunisa
2)Horsham
3)Worthing
4)Abingdon
5) Newhaven full of Brighton wannabes

 

[deano5]

hailsham
croydon
gillingham
middlesborough
portsmouth

 

[Slowhand]

Re: Re: Worst Five Places You Have Visited

Basingstoke

Basingstoke?

Whats wrong with Basingstoke.

 

[Cian]

Bratislava in Mid-winter
Paris
Nasty little belgian town I got a train from and can't remember the name of it
Milton Keynes
Manchester

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Vegas. Horrible place.

 

[Caveman]

3)Worthing

You are obviously not very well travelled.

 

[Marc]

Colchester
Portsmouth
Albany (town in New York State)
Mile Oak ( )
Selhurst Park

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Croydon
Croydon
Croydon
Croydon
Croydon

Plus point - You can get a train direct to Brighton

I will second that.

 

[Virgo's Haircut]

1. Croydon
2. Worthing
3. Burnley
4. Uttoxeter
5. Rochdale

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Reading
Croydon

It's just between those two

 

[the wanderbus]

east croydon
west croydon
coulsden
new addington
bromley

all have the same strange scummy stench