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Dull, Bland, and Boring — that’s the League of Extraordinary Communities. Dull, Scotland, and Boring, Ore., were twin cities with a “tourism relationship,” Neil Pokoney, mayor of Bland Shire, N.S.W., Australia, said in 2013. “We heard about it and thought it would be even better if it became ‘Bland, Dull, and Boring.’” Now an official visit by the mayor to Dull has been announced. Visits between Dull and Boring are already common, said Dull councilor Ian Campbell. (AC/BBC) ...And if tourist visits between Dull and Bland increase, maybe the league can add the Disappointment Islands.Original Publication Date: 06 August 2017
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
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