Day ONE (Continued)
Street selfies
Asia's first Krispy Kreme store? Now that is my kind of tourist attraction!
OMGeee! Hello Kitty Cafe ^.^
Okay I was super excited about this because I had seen pictures of here on the internet years before. So to see it in real life was very surreal.
As was to be expected, everything was ridiculously cute and pink, and I loved it all!
I didn't even care that it totally classed with my hair.
I got a hot sweet potato milkshake type thing, which was delicious and of course super cute!
That evening we were taken out for dinner which was definitely an interesting experience as they ordered for us, so we were able to try many new foods we would have otherwise ignored.
However, it was also a little confusing as we had become used to the Japanese style of ordering and eating. In Korea the meals all came in huge portions and were placed in the middle of the tables and shared amongst everyone. In addition we were given many different little bowls of liquids throughout the meal, I was told that some were drinks and some were soups, but I was never sure which or what they were.
After dinner we had intended to go to the top of one of Seoul's many buildings to see the city at night from above, however the night was very cloudy with poor visibility, so we were resigned to ground level.
Finally when it came to head home to the warmth and comfort of our hostel, at the train station along the way I stumbled across this little bonus.
Many gas masks, along with instructions, neatly packaged and ready for an emergency.
Day TWO
On our second day we stumbled across a couple taking their wedding (or maybe engagement) photos at this beautiful site. What I found curious is that for some of the photos the guy was posing with a dagger behind his back. Which maybe you can see in the first photo...
As you can see they were both wearing traditional Korean clothing...
I ended up watching and taking pictures for quite awhile, and I think I ended up in the back of quite a few of their pictures.
Traditional style buildings with their distinct roofings
One thing that was fascinating about Korea was their roads, and the laws of the road (or lack thereof). We were totally confused at first to see mopeds on the pavement, apparently they are considered some halfway point between cars and bicycles, which therefore means they are allowed to ride on the roads, the pavements, and across pedestrian crossings. Which was slightly terrifying. It seems in part linked with food deliveries and take away; these scooters that were almost above the law meant that you could get pretty much any food in Korea delivered to your door.
Myeongdong
Later, whilst in Myeongdong, we wandered up to the cathedral which seemed to have drawn many tourists. Once inside we were surprised to see a wedding going on as tourists wandered in and out of the cathedral!
Then lunch, which was delicious! However, it turns out that Korea has a totally different style of chopstick compared to what we had become used to, so once again I became a chopstick novice and struggled to eat
Seoul Tower
I got to ride my first ever cable car!
Seoul tower
The view across the capital
Like many places in the world, at Seoul tower couples came to add locks to the fences. But by this stage there wasn't much fence left, so locks were added to locks.
In many places, people had even locked in phone cases with messages written on them
The locks underneath, originally attacked to the fence were incredibly weathered and old, so much so that some of them simply came off in your hand.
German bar for dinner :D
Germany meets Korea equals
Assorted sausages and fried kimchi.
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