Worst places you've been to!

[RickyR]

Regards earlier message about Smokey Mountain, officially it's closed, and everyone has been moved on, but they have moved about 200 yards away and another landfill site (effectively the new smokey mountain) exists. We helped out a few times with the charity there run by a British lady called Jane Walker called the Philippine Commnuity Fund. You can buy merchandise made by the people who live there, made using rubbish essentially and is sold in debenhams. I've never had any concerns walking around Tondo, but never have anything worth being mugged for one me!

I agree with Terpe about Lagos, I absolutely hate the whole of West Africa, and have ended up in so much trouble there that I never ever want to return to any country along that coast. Most of Africa is corrupt, but Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Angola and the Congo are the worst.

There are parts of the UK I don't enjoy, but you'll always within half on hour of somewhere nice almost everywhere.

[sars_notd_virus]

Quiapo Philippines( I had my OJT in Hospicio De San Jose) and the bandits knows a lot if someone is NEW in the area,easy targets for snatching,hold ups!!

and

London (basically just like Quiapo but in a different country)

[Terpe]

Quiapo Philippines( I had my OJT in Hospicio De San Jose) and the bandits knows a lot if someone is NEW in the area,easy targets for snatching,hold ups!!

and

London (basically just like Quiapo but in a different country)

This week I have been watching the crazy crazy happenings in Quiapo.
Millions of people completely mesmorised by one single goal..... touch the Black Nazarene.
Very frightening seeing such a large mass of people where each individual has absolutely no influence or control on anything.

Would not want to be anywhere there during the procession time.

[fred]

This week I have been watching the crazy crazy happenings in Quiapo.
Millions of people completely mesmorised by one single goal..... touch the Black Nazarene.
Very frightening seeing such a large mass of people where each individual has absolutely no influence or control on anything.

Would not want to be anywhere there during the procession time.

Yes.. the Black Nazarene!! The old burnt Spanish relic they worship like a God!!
Very sad event IMO.

[worthingmale]

worst place for me is London and Manila, hate big cities to busy and to many people.

I like more chilled out relaxed cities like Brighton and Davao .

[tomboo]

my hometown is the worst for sure, blyht in northumberland, its a place that you could never ever persuade me to live in

[grahamw48]

I've been there...sleepy little place by the sea....but a bit remote !

[AnaWallace]

Well for me it has to be Belfast in the late 70's early 80's not a good place to be in your teens with a English accent,
Parts of Bankgkok i felt uneasy in oh and Springburn Maryhill what a dump,


Gary

[bornatbirth]

blackpool, i took my wife there for the day...i went when i was a kid so i couldnt really remember it except for the laughing clown.

as we drove into the town it didnt seen so bad but getting on to the sea front, its so run down and looking so dated...reminds me of manila

[Ako Si Jamie]

blackpool, i took my wife there for the day...i went when i was a kid so i couldnt really remember it except for the laughing clown.

as we drove into the town it didnt seen so bad but getting on to the sea front, its so run down and looking so dated...reminds me of manila

Blackpool isn't too bad if you go inwards for about a mile and exclude the likes of Mereside & Grange Park.

[Englishman2010]

The area around the green footbridge at the Baclaran bus and Jeepney stop comes near the top of places I don't particularly like. It's a filthy, stinky eyesore - pangit mabaho is what Elaine and I called it

[grahamw48]

I once went 'clubbing' in Baclaran...with a local though.

Also sometimes walked from the airport to the LRT station there...fully laden with bags.
Wish I was that fit now.

[Englishman2010]

I once went 'clubbing' in Baclaran...with a local though.

Also sometimes walked from the airport to the LRT station there...fully laden with bags.
Wish I was that fit now.

haha, you skinflint, a Taxi to Manila from the airport is no more than 250 pesos, even in rush hour

[fred]

I once went 'clubbing' in Baclaran...with a local though.

Also sometimes walked from the airport to the LRT station there...fully laden with bags.
Wish I was that fit now.

A mere stroll lad!!
We used to walk from Sucat Paranaque to UN Avenue int blazing sun..Then back fer`t a scrap of daing and a bit of burnt rice..
True.. No jeep fare!!

[JimOttley]

A mere stroll lad!!
We used to walk from Sucat Paranaque to UN Avenue int blazing sun..Then back fer`t a scrap of daing and a bit of burnt rice..
True.. No jeep fare!!

That's a fair walk about 6.5 miles each way Fred Not a distance I would choose deliberately to walk anywhere

[grahamw48]

A mere stroll lad!!
We used to walk from Sucat Paranaque to UN Avenue int blazing sun..Then back fer`t a scrap of daing and a bit of burnt rice..
True.. No jeep fare!!

Oh, I HAVE walked to Ermita from the airport, and in the sun, and with 20kg on my back, and hand-luggage too....one day when everything was totally snarled up.

The best was visiting the mother-in-law at the farm in the mountains. Just a footpath through the Jungle up and down dale for 6 hours.

I normally cycle for day to day getting about...even brought one of those crossbar seats from England for my boy, and used to take him to school every day on it, or on the scooter if really chucking it down.

Here's my last one, pictured with step-daughter, and niece (on the right)

Note the back light...a total novelty in the Phils of course ...but I like to be seen !



Apologs to mods for going odd-topic.

[fred]

Hey Jim..I always wondered how far it was..6.5 Miles? Are you sure? Seemed like a lot more than that..
We used to thumb it,and jumped on the back of a 10 wheeler rice truck once..
We mighta been poor,but we were appy!!
How did you estimate the distance??

[JimOttley]

Hey Jim..I always wondered how far it was..6.5 Miles? Are you sure? Seemed like a lot more than that..
We used to thumb it,and jumped on the back of a 10 wheeler rice truck once..
We mighta been poor,but we were appy!!
How did you estimate the distance??

Just measured it again from SM Sucat where the new C5 Extension crosses Sucat Road along Ninoy Aquino Ave then down NAIA road to Roxas Boulevard then all the way to Ermita and the bottom of UN Avenue I assumed you were somewhere up UN Avenue, second time it came out at about 7.5 miles.

I used a measuring path on Google Earth not to fussy about following the road exactly but I included a couple of turns that you might not do in reality so it evens out. Of course if you started further into Sucat it would be longer.

As the crow flies it's 6.7 miles, I think I started from the wrong SM the first time (we live down past Sucat so I know the main roads reasonably well down there)

[les_taxi]

Glasgow and Middlesbrough are stunner's
Favourite city for me is Liverpool
Bet you never thought I'd say that

[JimOttley]

Glasgow and Middlesbrough are stunner's
Favourite city for me is Liverpool
Bet you never thought I'd say that

Glasgow is a beautiful city these days sure it has it's nightmare housing estates still but the city centre and outlying areas are very nice indeed and the people are much less likely to chib you these days It's come a long long way since the late 50's early 60's.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery




SECC and Bells Bridge with the BBC on the left.



Queen Street Station



Glasgow Science Centre

[fred]

Cheers Jim!! Not sure where SM sucat is.. The place didnt exist then and Ive not been back since..
We lived in Green heights sub division at the time.. might be called Greenheights village now??..

[JimOttley]

Cheers Jim!! Not sure where SM sucat is.. The place didnt exist then and Ive not been back since..
We lived in Green heights sub division at the time.. might be called Greenheights village now??..

Yeah I think I've heard of that one, ah ok found it

http://goo.gl/maps/y29O

add another 2.4 miles if you walked to DR Santos Ave first and then round to Ninoy Aquino Ave.

SM Sucat is here http://goo.gl/maps/BE2W

[fred]

Thanks again Jim..So about 10 miles give or take..
Yep.. Past MIA onto the expressway down to Baclaran keep going...and going to Roxas boulevard and pray for UN avenue..
Cheers,
Fred.

[JimOttley]

Thanks again Jim..So about 10 miles give or take..
Yep.. Past MIA onto the expressway down to Baclaran keep going...and going to Roxas boulevard and pray for UN avenue..
Cheers,
Fred.

I can imagine, we used to live up near Malate but then moved down to Las Pinas a while back, just measured that properly for the first time about 7 miles would only consider a taxi for that journey in fact last time was two weeks ago 150 peso same length journey from Glasgow city centre to my home town would have been at least 15 quid any time in the last 15 years but as you say if you are skint and have no choice you just get on with it Cheers!

[fred]

Apologs to mods for going odd-topic.

Apology accepted... Just watch yourself though right!

Blimey..The seat on that bike looks like a razor blade!!

[grahamw48]

Apology accepted... Just watch yourself though right!

Blimey..The seat on that bike looks like a razor blade!!

.

[fred]

So you live there now in Las Pinas Jim? We lived in Philam life village for a while back in the 80`s..
When Im in town next I`ll buy you a beer for all that rummaging around on my behalf on Google earth!!..
Cheers,
Fred.

[JimOttley]

So you live there now in Las Pinas Jim? We lived in Philam life village for a while back in the 80`s..
When Im in town next I`ll buy you a beer for all that rummaging around on my behalf on Google earth!!..
Cheers,
Fred.

Family live there with me paying the rent I only get to live there once I have saved enough pennies

I am cursed with having to work for a living in freezin cold England, just got back to the UK a few days ago. :(

It'll be a few months before I'm back over but I'll give you a shout in case you are up in Manila, I would have done so this trip as I know you said you spent part of Christmas in Manila but we were really busy for most of this trip and I ended up getting a
bad cold as well (which is getting worse now I am back in one of my least favourite places, near Liverpool, just to stay on topic )

[Tawi2]

Britain's most miserable cities
1 Glasgow
2 Newcastle
3 Sheffield
4 Cardiff
5 London

Britain's least miserable cities
1 Southampton
2 Nottingham
3 Edinburgh
4 Liverpool
5 Leeds

[JimOttley]

Britain's most miserable cities
1 Glasgow
2 Newcastle
3 Sheffield
4 Cardiff
5 London

Britain's least miserable cities
1 Southampton
2 Nottingham
3 Edinburgh
4 Liverpool
5 Leeds

Odd my daughter went to Durham Uni and spent a fair bit of time in Newcastle and loved it, I've only been there once but was impressed by the city and I've already said I really miss Glasgow

What is it about Glasgow that people find so miserable? Apart from the weather of course.