Highland Capital Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 1 hour ago, 8MileBU said: Absolute nonsense. As much as London is a fantastic place with endless amounts to do it’d maybe just scrape into my top 5. In no particular order: NYC. Toronto. Berlin. London. Rome…… I wouldn't call it overrated and I enjoyed my trip there, but I thought that one visit to Toronto was probably enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 (edited) 58 minutes ago, Archie McSquackle said: 2 hours ago, 8MileBU said: As much as London is a fantastic place with endless amounts to do it’d maybe just scrape into my top 5. In no particular order: NYC. Toronto. Berlin. London. Rome…… The latter brings me to my point. The Vatican is the peak of overrated shite attractions IMO. An interesting first 10 minutes or so was had then it just became a load of utterly boring or just plain disturbing tapestries followed by more tedious pish whilst crammed into room after room and corridor after corridor with far too many people in the one place. To be fair to the Vatican, it's primary function isn't to be a tourist attraction. Actually.... In the Middle Ages places like The Vatican, Santiago de Compostela, Canterbury and even your local places like St Andrews Cathedral and Dunfermline Abbey were meant to be tourist attractions, although tourists were called "pilgrims". The idea was if you went to pray at the shrine of a Saint, for example St Margaret in Dunfermline, you got an amount of time off your spell in Purgatory. The more important the Saint the more time you got off hence travelling to Santiago de Compostela was popular as St James was a main Saint In the late 13th Century the Pope was feeling a bit skint so he declared 1300 a "Jubilee" year. Visit Rome and you got 1000 years off your spell in Purgatory. So the tourists/pilgrims all flocked to Rome and donated their money to the Church while they were there. This jubilee was meant to be a once in a millennium thing but later Popes found it a good way to raise money so they started happening every few years like a Rangers share issue. Edited October 5, 2021 by tamthebam 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Blairdrummond safari Park, full of human scumSent from my SM-A426B using Tapatalk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Storybook Glen. Spoiler 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 1 hour ago, tamthebam said: later Popes found it a good way to raise money so they started happening every few years like a Rangers share issue. That has to be the most inappropriate simile ever. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kersey Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Storybook Glen. Hide contents Is that still open? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 14 minutes ago, Paul Kersey said: Is that still open? Think it shut a few years back. Because it was shit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 Which cheeky scamp has been talking up Falkirk so much that it's appeared on an overrated attractions thread so many times? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arabdownunder Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 Has Madam Tussaud's had a mention? Completely pointless idea. Just shite. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewmc Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 Anywhere that has ‘Disney’ in the name of the venue. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oystercatcher Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 Carthage in Tunisia. Went on a bus tour about 25 years ago to Sidi bou said and it took in some "sights" on the way. Looking at a pile of rubble from a road 50 metres away isn't an attraction To be honest the whole of Tunisia is a dump 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dysartrovers Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 Thought Rio was the most overrated place I've been, and felt rough as f**k even compared to the other South American capitals[emoji848][emoji2357] 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 22 minutes ago, Oystercatcher said: Carthage in Tunisia. Went on a bus tour about 25 years ago to Sidi bou said and it took in some "sights" on the way. Looking at a pile of rubble from a road 50 metres away isn't an attraction To be honest the whole of Tunisia is a dump How dare you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuctifano Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 (edited) 5 minutes ago, dysartrovers said: Hahaha, good point, geography fail there, should of course be major cities and not capitals. Closer to home Beatrix Potter museum in the lake district, went with the other half to Windermere a couple of years ago and went there to pass some time during the day as she liked the Beatrix Potter books as a child. Bought a map of it at reception as they made it look massive from the outside. We were in and out in 15 minutes and that was with me taking as much time as possible. Cost about £25 in total. Probably falls under overpriced rather than overrated though. Edited October 6, 2021 by Fuctifano 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Mahelp Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 13 hours ago, 8MileBU said: Absolute nonsense. As much as London is a fantastic place with endless amounts to do it’d maybe just scrape into my top 5. In no particular order: NYC. Toronto. Berlin. London. Rome…… The latter brings me to my point. The Vatican is the peak of overrated shite attractions IMO. An interesting first 10 minutes or so was had then it just became a load of utterly boring or just plain disturbing tapestries followed by more tedious pish whilst crammed into room after room and corridor after corridor with far too many people in the one place. I presume you mean The Vatican museum ? I know what you mean. Narrow corridors and a bazillion people. However, there's a lot of amazing stuff in there, it's just that you shuffle past everything very quickly trying to find space. But....The Sistine chapel at the end of it is worth all the hassle. One of the most stunning rooms you'll see anywhere in the world. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futureboy Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 9 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Think it shut a few years back. Because it was shit. Nah, still open. They built a new kids play area which is alright and keeps pretty busy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 1 minute ago, Futureboy said: Nah, still open. They built a new kids play area which is alright and keeps pretty busy. The Vatican? I wouldn't be leaving the weans there. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 5 minutes ago, Futureboy said: Nah, still open. They built a new kids play area which is alright and keeps pretty busy. Blimey, is Shrek et al still there? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well fan for life Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 On 05/10/2021 at 08:25, Hedgecutter said: FWIW, I've always liked how the Berlin TV tower, which was originally built to show off communist power in East Germany (as you can see it all over the city), now has a Starbucks at the base of it. Had a smashing dinner at a Vietnamese place underneath it. That was definitely not an overrated attraction. On Berlin I couldn't tell you whether the Bundestag is worth going to as when I went past the queue to get in was enormous and I wasn't wasting hours of my few days there waiting on it. As for Sagrada Familia, I thought it was fascinating. We caught it on an early morning as the sun came through the stained glass windows and it was beautiful. Also a wander round cathedrals is smashing when it's roasting because they are always cool inside. Parc Güell is fine for a walk around but don't pay for the closed off bit. It's just rammed with folk fighting over places to take a selfie and tbh you get a better view over the city if you just walk up the hill at the back of it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB1994 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 The Strathclyde Hilton. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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