Just a bare bones entry, as I'm using a computer in an Internet cafe in Seoul. It
has an annoying plastic overlay that makes it very difficult to see the English
letters in the corner of each key (I don't touch type). The keys also have Korean
letters. Rudder is off at a business dinner -- Seoul's Gangnam-gu neighborhood is
both safe to walk around at night and invigorating, with crowds, lights, shops,
and sidewalk stalls.
It took us over 24 hours travel to get here, so
I'm still a bit jet-lagged. It's good for me to be out here instead of back at the
hotel dozing off. Yesterday we went to see the Gyeongbokgung palace and the
National Folk Museum. Another day I'll return there to see the National Museum,
but by late afternoon I was fading fast. We collapsed in the room and ordered room
service.
Today Ted's cousins came to town and we went with them to
the Changyonggung palace, after which we went to a bulgogi restaurant. This is
meat grilled at the table and rolled up in a lettuce leaf with various other
condiments and pickled vegetables. Ted's cousin G wimped out so it was us, his
wife K, and their three children. The girls more or less refused to eat much but
rice. I liked the food, Rudder and K liked some of it, and the waitress kept
whisking the baby off to stuff treats into him. Babies are a major attraction
here, apparently.
More another time,
Dichroic.
Posted by dichroic at February 4, 2002 04:59 PM