Prado Hotel Gwangju

... lived outside of Mokpo. When I arrived I wanted to take a shower before I went to bed and what an experience that was. Once again it was just a room with a drain but this time there was no warm water. I don’t think I have taken a cold shower since the last time I was here. It sucked the air out of my lungs but in the end it was pretty cool, no pun intended. Not just because of the water temp but because of the big bucket / pour water over yourself ...

... only famous people can make an engraved characters and we saw a some written by former presidents and one made by Daniel's Dad. It was pretty cool. It was funny because we were going up the steps of the monument and they spelt entrance wrong and we pointed it out and he said write the correct way down and he would fix it. That was pretty cool to us. Now it was off to the Hyundai Ship ...

... the amazing fun I've had in Seoul over the past 2 months! So I'm just letting myself relax and ... not think about anything. That's the hope. I also decided today that I quite like bus journeys. For all their discomfort and overzealous air conditioning, the one thing I really like about being on a bus journey, or air or ferry journey for that matter, is that for the entire duration of that journey you can ...

... mountain with had views of about 10 meters due to a heavy fog. Another day I climbed another and higher mountain north of Seoul (again reachable by subway), the Dobongsan in Bukhansan National Park. This was a real mountain climb and near the top it got all rocky and very steep: there were metal railings and chains to hold yourself: not for the faint-hearted and vertigo sufferers! Once on the top the clouds moved in and you couldn't see the valley anymore; but ...

... At the next station there was a mall attached, where we had Korean-Italian while waiting. Jeff just had a baked pasta & chicken dish, but I had sweet potato pizza. It was just crust, yellow sweet potato, and cheese. It was okay, but would have been better with a sauce. I ended up dipping my slices in Jeff's pasta sauce. We headed for out train terminal and ran into the man from the previous station. He held my hand ...

... tog vi til Biennale, og det var helt vildt fedt, jeg fik taget rigtig mange billeder, men kan desvaerre ikke ligge dem ud endnu ( deres computer er lidt gammel, saa den er ikke helt updatet til USB stiks osv. ) Vi var der i nok 3 1/2 time, virkelig fed kunst. Det er rigtig sjovt at gaa rundt sammen med Ji-yun for hun kan oversaette alt til engelsk, saa ting som jeg normalt ikke ville fatte kan hun forklare rigtig godt ...

... its pickled cabbage flavoured with garlic and chili its takes a while to get use to but everyone here eats it 3 times a day they believe its the cure for everything???? 10 Corporal punishment is still ok:0 2 weeks ago I went to a Jin Jo Bong a Korean sauna it has green tea baths, mud baths, hot baths cold baths and everyone is naked. its strange but fun. Lots of i scrub your back if you scrub mine. Two weeks i take a holiday in Taiwan cant wait. Oh its tough life..

... s brother showed me the way to school and indeed it was a route that took hours! My grandfather was committed to educating his kids and supported them all through some college in a village where most peasant children helped with the fieldwork. My father ultimately went to high school in Chunju and then chose to sit for the examination into Chonnam National University in Kwangju, as Seoul was much further away those days. He placed second in the ...

... to snap a couple of pictures. Instead we decided to risk it and start a Mexican wave, luckily, unlike Australia, Koreans are allowed to partake in this dangerous act without being thrown out of the game. Looking back, the $700 Nicole insisted we spend on insurance over the year doesn't seem so stupid now! The Kids We were taken to a centre to see some real life Korean kids. This was obviously the last chance to change our mind and return (run ...

... back and open my bag as the bag movers obviously confused my LCD screen for a bomb, this was in fact very funny as Nic had no idea what was happening and her Korean was not at that level to recognise 'bomb' 'terrorist' and 'open it now'. After deciding we were not north Korean terrorists, we then picked up the tickets, got our very heavy bags onto the bus, all the time hoping it is in fact the correct bus...we did it...just we got to check in at about 9:10 for a 9:30 flight - I was ...