Saturday, November 18, 2006
17 November, 2006
We woke up not so fresh and breezy and starting to feel slightly dirty. We caught 2 buses to the Beijing airport and luckily my darling mother managed to change our flights to the earlier one so we didn’t have to wait at the airport too long. We left China and arrived in Seoul, South Korea. We had to catch another bus into town and that took about 2 hours to get into the city. From there we met 2 helpful army fellows who helped us find our hotel about 45 minutes later. At this stage we felt so dirty and disgusting and tired that I think even an Indian shower would have gone down well. Rich got involved with the washing and ‘doby wallahed’ our clothes again. We spent the evening walking around the busy city and eating Korean food on the street and in a local restaurant. At least it was edible and we really enjoyed it. The prices here are not cheap and the food in good restaurants is really expensive. The City is really clean and it seems to be a shoppers’ paradise. Apparently the shops stay open until 5am (perhaps only on weekends). The Korean women are very beautiful and the people are generally helpful and friendly. A good nights’ sleep was in order.
We woke up not so fresh and breezy and starting to feel slightly dirty. We caught 2 buses to the Beijing airport and luckily my darling mother managed to change our flights to the earlier one so we didn’t have to wait at the airport too long. We left China and arrived in Seoul, South Korea. We had to catch another bus into town and that took about 2 hours to get into the city. From there we met 2 helpful army fellows who helped us find our hotel about 45 minutes later. At this stage we felt so dirty and disgusting and tired that I think even an Indian shower would have gone down well. Rich got involved with the washing and ‘doby wallahed’ our clothes again. We spent the evening walking around the busy city and eating Korean food on the street and in a local restaurant. At least it was edible and we really enjoyed it. The prices here are not cheap and the food in good restaurants is really expensive. The City is really clean and it seems to be a shoppers’ paradise. Apparently the shops stay open until 5am (perhaps only on weekends). The Korean women are very beautiful and the people are generally helpful and friendly. A good nights’ sleep was in order.
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