Big Adventures, Little World

The day began with us walking out of our room to find a couple of people sleeping on the floor of June’s lounge room which gave us the feeling that we were just staying at a friend’s house after a big night. It was about 8.30am as we were ready to leave, but realised we needed to wake June to give him back the keycard and get our security deposit from him. I went to his room and woke him up, gave him the keycard, and then he gave us the deposit back without even checking the room. Why he took it? I have no idea. We headed out and for some reason we felt the need to thank him very much for letting stay, like it was an unexpected thing at a friend’s house. Nonetheless the, it was a really great place to stay and he was very welcoming and a great guy. A highly recommended place to stay, even if it is a little unorthodox!

Firstly, we checked out the Cultural Sightseeing Street, which turned out to be not all that exciting. So we went off to find some markets to do a bit of shopping. This turned out more difficult than expected, and proved much harder to find anything we actually wanted. We ended up getting frustrated and finding somewhere to eat. All the menus were in Korean, luckily though as we sat there staring at the fake plates trying to figure it out, a young Korean man came up to us and asked in English if we knew what we were ordering. He explained to us what some things were, recommended us some Korean dishes, and even took us and ordered the food for us. It made our day, he was so very helpful for no reason.

After a bit of food we went in search of some more markets, but again we were disappointed with them not offering much of what we wanted. We ended up finding a couple of things before heading back to the ferry terminal to catch the Beetle back to Japan and end our stay in Korea.

All in all it was quite a nice place to stay, but would have been better if we had another day or so. Still a great experience nonetheless, and would love to go again. One thing though is that the drivers on the road are crazy! We ended up taking the approach of crossing lights with “Go hard, or go home in a body bag” because if you hesitated, you were bound to get hit. Bye bye Korea, see you again one day.