Annyeong haseyo from South Korea
We have had a great couple of weeks with Luke in Hamyang, a smallish city, around 50000 and very compact with everything within walking distance, a lot of apartment living in the town centre. There must be at least 50 eating places within 100 metres of Luke's place. We have had sushi or kimbap as it is known here for breakfast, lunch and dinner, bibambap a lot as well which is a cheap rice, vege, egg dish, great anytime. We are also well known at the "Paris baguette" shop. Luke finishes work at 9pm and we go out for dinner then. We ordered some kebabs the other night (from the picture menu, one lot was great, chicken with vege, the other was just chicken skin!!!
Luke's principal and family took us to the Haeinsa Unesco World Heritage temple last weekend which was really interesting and worth the trip. It is in a national park. We had a huge Korean banquet lunch then went to a movie set village and then on to his parents restaurant where we had another enormous banquet!! There were 12 dishes just for the starter,an incredible array and variety of food. Trevor and I visited Jirisan national park which is really close to Hamyang and did a couple of good walks. One took our legs 3 days to recover, it was really steep and hard. Quite an experience organising buses and departure times etc with a Korean dictionary. But we did get to the right places.We also ventured to Jinju and visited the Jinju Fortress which was impressive. The parks here are fantastic and have heaps of exercise equipment in them. People do lots of walking and all seem to use the equipment as well, they are fun. Korea is an incredibly green hilly country, lots of small cities quite close to each other. Lots of rice fields. Bus transport is great with local buses going all the time. We don't feel like we are in an overpopulated country at all. It is about the size of a squashed South Island with 48 million people... Although we may feel different after a weekend in Seoul. Not that many cars on the roads compared to NZ. The weather has been fantastic apart from 2 days as typhoon samba rolled by. We did manage to cook some pancakes and pasta as it rained and blew around us. But hard to believe they get four months of snow here and down to minus 15 at times. The students go to public school all day then a lot go to academies after that, like English classes or maths classes. Luke has some students twice a day five days a week!! They take education very seriously.
So off to Seoul in the morning for the weekend then fly to Bangkok on Monday evening.Not many sleeps until we are home... I will do a wrap after the weekend
We have had a great couple of weeks with Luke in Hamyang, a smallish city, around 50000 and very compact with everything within walking distance, a lot of apartment living in the town centre. There must be at least 50 eating places within 100 metres of Luke's place. We have had sushi or kimbap as it is known here for breakfast, lunch and dinner, bibambap a lot as well which is a cheap rice, vege, egg dish, great anytime. We are also well known at the "Paris baguette" shop. Luke finishes work at 9pm and we go out for dinner then. We ordered some kebabs the other night (from the picture menu, one lot was great, chicken with vege, the other was just chicken skin!!!
Luke's principal and family took us to the Haeinsa Unesco World Heritage temple last weekend which was really interesting and worth the trip. It is in a national park. We had a huge Korean banquet lunch then went to a movie set village and then on to his parents restaurant where we had another enormous banquet!! There were 12 dishes just for the starter,an incredible array and variety of food. Trevor and I visited Jirisan national park which is really close to Hamyang and did a couple of good walks. One took our legs 3 days to recover, it was really steep and hard. Quite an experience organising buses and departure times etc with a Korean dictionary. But we did get to the right places.We also ventured to Jinju and visited the Jinju Fortress which was impressive. The parks here are fantastic and have heaps of exercise equipment in them. People do lots of walking and all seem to use the equipment as well, they are fun. Korea is an incredibly green hilly country, lots of small cities quite close to each other. Lots of rice fields. Bus transport is great with local buses going all the time. We don't feel like we are in an overpopulated country at all. It is about the size of a squashed South Island with 48 million people... Although we may feel different after a weekend in Seoul. Not that many cars on the roads compared to NZ. The weather has been fantastic apart from 2 days as typhoon samba rolled by. We did manage to cook some pancakes and pasta as it rained and blew around us. But hard to believe they get four months of snow here and down to minus 15 at times. The students go to public school all day then a lot go to academies after that, like English classes or maths classes. Luke has some students twice a day five days a week!! They take education very seriously.
So off to Seoul in the morning for the weekend then fly to Bangkok on Monday evening.Not many sleeps until we are home... I will do a wrap after the weekend
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| Hanging about in Hamyang |
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| I want one of these in Taupo |
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| Trevor stretching |
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| Hamyang in the distance |
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| Morning walk through the rice fields |
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| the two kebabs on the left are just chicken skin! |
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| Lots of squirrels |
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| Jirisan park |
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| A good luck prayer maze |
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| Shine, Luke's principal and baby boy |
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| Jinju and apartment living |
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| Another banquet |
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| Train at film set |
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