I made a
flying visit back home long enough to see my nearest and dearest before I
headed back to Seoul, this time on holiday. 8 days over Chuseok to show Wes
around my beloved city.
My flight
was via Delhi and avid readers of this blog will know my thoughts on that place
already. Despite how I feel India is never boring. I had a 3 hour layover and
did what everyone does, headed for the bar. I got chatting to an Australian
guy, mid-40s with a long beard. He had just been travelling Europe on a
motorbike and we drank and shared stories. He was an interesting guy. Then came
a question out of the blue. “What do you think of aliens?” This is why I don’t
talk to strangers. He went on to explain how there is no God, but the earth is
alive and controls everything and that aliens exist among us much like the plot of the movie Men In Black. Why are the
weirdest ones in India?
In Seoul
and we managed to see a lot. Gwangjang Market, a baseball game, a dog café,
Gyeongbuk Palace, Myeongdong, the War Museum, my old stomping ground of Kondae,
and the most boring goalless draw ever played.
The only trouble with visiting over the holidays was that a few places were closed.
The
highlight, other than seeing a few faces, was the DMZ tour. While there it was
kicking off. I’m not sure what the North Koreans were doing, but they were in a
stand-off with the South Koreans. We were also being watched by someone. After
having a look around the JSA buildings we weren’t allowed to continue the tour
due to safety reasons.
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| Wes and I either side of the border. |
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| The North and South Koreans in stand off. |
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| Our dreamy US soldier tour guide. |
And before
I knew it it was all over. Two-and-a-half years in Korea and I’m out. When I
boarded by flight back in December 2013 to move there I thought I was making a
terrible mistake and the first Google search I made there was “how to get out
of a contract in Korea”. Having done it I can say it was one of the best
decisions I’ve ever made.
On to the
next adventure Hanoi…
