most overrated "popular" major travel city?
Sep 30, 2009, 9:40 pm
#196
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Hong Kong
Posts: 2,068
Ah, I remember Beanos, used to go there when I was growing up.
Oct 1, 2009, 5:22 am
#197
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 87
I haven't travelled too much and probably don't qualify to respond to the question but:
Paris: Despite the spectacular, romantic architecture, most of which was built over 2 centuries ago and not by today's inhabitants, who appear to excel more with ghettos, it always seems dirty, dangerous, sloppy in organization, and unless you have access to Alain Ducasse or similar, the food is VASTLY overrated - throughout France (if you subscribe to Michelin, Tokyo has more stars than anywhere else, but then the Michelin people are French and Japanese people tell me they laugh at the rankings). The people living in Paris seem nervous and tense as well. Paris obviously has wondrous parts, for sure, but I always find it immensely overrated.
Singapore: If you equate it with music, it's the Carpenters. A huge yawn, with watered down culture. Probably the most boring place to visit in all Asia. (Bangkok is the Sex Pistols!)
Paris: Despite the spectacular, romantic architecture, most of which was built over 2 centuries ago and not by today's inhabitants, who appear to excel more with ghettos, it always seems dirty, dangerous, sloppy in organization, and unless you have access to Alain Ducasse or similar, the food is VASTLY overrated - throughout France (if you subscribe to Michelin, Tokyo has more stars than anywhere else, but then the Michelin people are French and Japanese people tell me they laugh at the rankings). The people living in Paris seem nervous and tense as well. Paris obviously has wondrous parts, for sure, but I always find it immensely overrated.
Singapore: If you equate it with music, it's the Carpenters. A huge yawn, with watered down culture. Probably the most boring place to visit in all Asia. (Bangkok is the Sex Pistols!)