That should have set me up perfectly for the day and it really would have, had I not spent until 2am sampling orange soju whilst writing the blog
I’m an idiot
So it was good that when we met up for the last time in our favourite coffee shop - the crushed orange was ice cold and plentiful
We had decided to go to the Gangnam district and worked out a complicated subway journey
So complicated in fact, that we were charged an extra 7p - the bloody cheek of it
One thing I don’t think I’ve mentioned is that just before the tube arrives, a jaunty fanfare is played and joss was brilliant enough to capture it - as you can tell by my excited voice at the end
While I’m at it - here are a few other things I’ve noticed about living in Seoul
Men seem to carry handbags a lot. Now I’m all for a man bag over the shoulder, but carrying the bag in the crook of your elbow just looks bizarre
This is probably the country with the nicest, warmest most helpful people I have met - but they do have a vain side. Every other shop is a cosmetics’ shop and purely by being in the country I have doubled its population of people with grey hair
Everyone drinks lager - pints of it - I’ve not seen a woman with a glass of wine? And when you drink lager, you have to often clink glasses together, whether you are with male or female friends - joss and I tried so hard not to be outdone, I think we both have rsi....
Cola seems to be almost unheard of over here - and Diet Coke is like hens’ teeth
At the sports’ bar we frequented it often showed Korean sports - but they only showed the games in which they win, no matter what the sport
Son has his own show where they just show all his best bits - I even saw him against AFCB and wondered how they’d paper over the sending off - easy - they didn’t show that game
And lastly, that trying to speak the language gets easier the more you try, and they really appreciate the effort - I guess that’s the same everywhere but seems even more so here
Anyway, back to today. We got off at Gangnam and found it was the office area - we needed to get off 2 stops earlier - d’oh
So we did that - did we make it I hear you ask
Yes we did
We then went into a massive shopping complex and had something very Korean
Well,ok, not strictly Korean
We explored the place and had a spot of lunch before we decided to reinforce our reputations as culture vultures by going to Bongeunsa Temple
It was gorgeous and we gave it the respect it deserved as a working temple
And here’s a big bell
Then we went back to Myeongdong and to the place that Hattie worships - the BTS shop
People queued for ages to have their picture take with this
And here’s Hattie in her natural habitat
We did have an opportunity for a couple of beers of course
Before heading back to the hotel to start packing - it had started to rain so I bought an umbrella- but for some reason I was still getting wet
For the evening meal, Kieren had a McDonald’s whereas we opted for street food
We started with noodles
Harry Hill has a show in which he’d sing “highlight of the week “ - we changed the words to be “something on a stick”
But this time, we could legitimately sing it twice
A great end to the day - now back at the hotel early, ready for a 4:30am alarm and it’s back to Blighty
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