Places that were not as nice as you expected

Paris - apart from some very pretty quarters and the galleries I find it inferior in almost every way to London

Paris is nice enough but it never lives up to the hype and a lot of it is rather scruffy. The contrast between the pride taken by the French in their dress and their food on the one hand, and their total lack of interest in making their public spaces look nice, always intrigues me; although the english are the opposite.