Then the taxi plunges into the city and the river disappears, the museum vanishes and you are swallowed up by the streets of an unremarkable town.

Nevis Range is seven miles north of the unremarkable town of Fort William, a two-and-a-half-hour drive or a train from Glasgow.

Until the First World War, the city managed to develop, but it was still a relatively unremarkable small town.

FROM Egyptian times, at least 15 centuries before Jesus, today's dusty and unremarkable little town of Beit Shean has been almost continuously inhabited.

The town, unremarkable except for its location between the mountain and the ocean, has also attracted camera-toting tourists to its narrow streets.

So far, the development of hotels, bars and taverns has exploded across the causeway in the unremarkable newer town of Gefira.

In the early twentieth century, Zaporizhia was a small unremarkable town of the Russian Empire, which acquired industrial importance during the socialist industrialization of the 1930s.

Once unremarkable small towns now see a rush of high-rise apartment blocks under construction.

The same moon shone down on the otherwise unremarkable town of Rham Nitz, some ninety miles from Lancre.

"We've never seen anything like it," said Marko Cirkovic, a waiter in the unremarkable town of Tivat, which surrounds the marina complex.