Ramada Plaza Cheongju Kyongju

... Taekwondo Monday, Tuesday and Thursday with a rest day on Wednesday leaving Friday eve, Saturday and Sunday free to travel, rest or explore.<br><br>I've been lucky enough to fall into a group of mountain climbing enthusiasts so this weekend saw me heading to Daegu (about a two hour train ride) to climb what I now know to be the highest peak in the area at 1100m plus. Public transport is great... the train journey cost the equivalent ...

... to the ones in Taiwan. At Dongdaegu, Xian bought some sandwiches for us to eat, which was really nice of him. I had expected the slower train from Dongdaegu to Gyeongju to be quite old and ****, but actually it was pretty good as well, and my backpack still fit on the shelf above the seats. My first impression of Gyeongju was that it seemed to be quite a rural town, not having many <br><br>Xian and Ming went to go buy their tickets to go back to Seoul ...

... the Manstar on account of it being in such close proximity to the ferry terminal I showed him the map and we soon found our way there. It wasn't bad for the price either, with a pc with internet in the room along with a bunch of free drinks. I thought this was a fantastic way to make use of aging computers world wide.<br><br>I rose early the next morning and picked up a little breakfast before going for a short walk along ...

... we still hadn't moved and the guy offered me his phone again so that I could call Emma. i gave a longer estimate the second time!<br><br>When I retold the story to a Korean teacher, he confirmed that it wasn't unusual. He recounted that as a child of 6/7 he would be walking the streets with his younger siblings. If they got lost they would just ask a stranger to call their parents for them, whcih, of course, they did. that same ...

... hvor vi fik serveret det man kalder et festmaltid. Der blev serveret fem retter med diverse tilbehor og det smagte rigtig godt.<br>Korte ca. 1.000 meter op i bjergene, hvor verdens storste velbevarede Buddha statue findes opbevaret bag glas. den er 3.48 m hoj. Man matte ikke fotografere, men vi optog et kort videoklip af statue inden der kom vagter farende.<br><br>Vi skulle herefter have besogt en gammel landsby ...

... the massage shop down the street from my hostel. I had a design in my head but that went out the window when I saw the New Zealand Maori design that NancyGirl specialized in. At that moment I new exactly what I wanted. I prefer tribal designs because they last long as thier simplicity leaves little detail for time and age to ruin. I also knew that I wanted a ...

... dafuer kostet es aber 4000 Won (1000 Won gleich 1 Dollar), teuerster Eintritt bisher, Eintrittspreise sind hier aber sehr human. Habe zwei Tage fuer Gyeongju eingeplant, aber gestern schon alle wichtigen Sehenswuerdigkeiten geschafft. Daher hatte ich heut Zeit in den "Bergen" oberhalb des ersten Zentrums (so um Christi Geburt, seit dem ist das Zentrum immer weiter nach Norden gewandert) zu wandern, der hoechste Berg ist 468m hoch. In den ...

After this evening on the roof, we manage to wake up and we went to rent bicycle for the day. We were just ready for great day, we did not know that we would have to climb a mountain with our bike still with a little hangover of the last evening. The good thing was that even if the weather was very humid, we did not get any rain. We went first through the tumuli: kind of pyramid for the Korean, it's in fact big graves were was ...

It's been a Spring of birthdays! It started with mine at the end of February and I feel like I've celebrated so many recently. I took my roommate out the other day. We had a middle of the week fling - he and Brandon had gone to see 300 without me when Melissa and I were in Jinhae... but he came with me to see in on a Wednesday after work. I paid for a taxi to the theater and the movie. I was glad to have the company. My roommate's birthday was April 6th and it ended ...

... had already scoped a table to guys to go meet. We joined their table and had some drinks before Melissa and Stephen went home around 3. Brandon and I stayed on, and when the group started to leave we convinced a few to stay out with us. We stayed out until 7 in the morning - it's always fun when I can ride the bus home! Most of the guys were from Busan but apparently they come out in Ulsan every weekend, so hopefully we'll hang out with them ...