The trip has been quite a learning experience so far. We learned how to navigate the subways on the first day, and also learned that ordering food in a foreign restaurant isn’t as hard as we thought it would be. Beef Bulgolgi, beef rib soup and barbecued pork was the order of the night as we wolfed down every juicy bit of meat and vegetable. I absolutely loved it. The part where our last meal was at the airport, more than 9 hours ago, may have something to do with it. Washed my meal down with some soju and went back to the hotel.
Our journey was made pretty convenient, from the airport to the subway and then the hotel. We were guided by a very friendly young man attending the subway office. He walked us all the way to the hotel, which is a lot to speak of considering the people of my country are very unlikely to do the same, or so I believe. All this kindness, while not speaking a single word of English. We couldn’t communicate our gratitude very well to him, so a courteous bow and a foreign-slanged ‘kamsahamnida’ was all we could muster up. Now, I sincerely believe that any foreigner that knows some English, Mandarin or Japanese, would find that making their way through Seoul may not be such a hard thing after all.
The hotel room was quaint. 2 beds, double and single; TV with 90% Korean channels (my roomie managed to find CNN on day 2). Fortunately, there was a LAN port to keep me connected, but not enough time and energy to enter a full blog post.
At this point in time while typing this out, I kinda dozed off on the bus. Woke up close to 6.30 p.m. and it was already dark. We made a few rest stops during this 2 hour long drive which took us to the base of Mt. Sorak. But more of that later.
I feel like the journal-ish blogpost should stop here. I’ll try the posts for my other days of the trip in a different style. So… expect no more wall of text. J
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