My husband, Bethany and I had our first real vacation. We had 3 days off that connected to the weekend to make it 5 glorious days off, so we headed to Seoul to see the big city. Ranked the 11th biggest city in the world by population.
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We finally we finished our one bus and 3 subway stations later we arrived in the area of our traditional guest house. The community was so sweet with lots of unique stores.
Following the GPS on our phone we walked for about 15 minutes.
Looking up this popular street, we were so excited to almost be there. Then we found a wall the kept us out, we had to go around to the station and back up on a different road.
Even though we had to start all over again, we were greeted with even more charming stores and interesting shop fronts.
Finally we made it! The Doo guest house.
It was just beautiful, simple and charming.
But we didn't stay long. We were starving!
This Italian restaurant was just a skip away from where we where staying and smelled wonderful!
Bethany and I saw exactly what we wanted!
And then we saw Dr. Pepper
It was AMAZING. Sure I live in another country and you would think "Hey why aren't you eating traditional food?" Well simply it's because that's mostly what Andong does, and I eat that everyday!
But they found away to make my pizza Korean when they served it with honey with toasted garlic flakes and pickles.
The Dr. Pepper was amazing.
The pickles were too!
Roland ordered a calzone, it was really great! the sauce wasn't too sweet, which tends to be a thing Koreans do to Italian food.
Mmmmmmmm... it was so good.
After that we moved down to Insadong, the traditional Korean street market, though it wasn't very traditional. Along our way some nice elderly man showed us his painting.
We also saw an old store that was being filmed by a TV station, It makes Ddeok (rice flour made glutinous . They all looked really beautiful, and delicate.
These statues stand tall on the side of the street, just before the Insadong street market.
Ah there it is, Insadong.
These 3 guys sing and make Ddeok. They had a sign with all the K-dramas they had been on.
We kept seeing these ice cream filled tubes of rice flour.
Roland still thinks they are super weird. It is a little strange to see people walking around eating them.
These were really interesting they reminded me of milk weed back home.
And then we saw it....
The bubbling cauldron of silk worm pupae!
EWW!!
And now,
For something completely different!
This dancing crew of all women!
They had drums and flutes, and were dancing out a play, but we couldn't understand its significance.
The market was full of touristy things but we found a side street of genuinely older things.
This box of painting brushes was so bright and colorful, I loved them all.
Street food was everywhere, but we weren't so hungry, but as we walked along the smells would pass us by.
The noises and murmur were drowned out by this mans awesome fast hands as they beat on his steel drum.
We were happy, but getting tired from being on our feet for over 10 hours.
We thought about stopping at a cafe' but we took another side trip down a dark alley...
and found this.
After our tea it was getting late, and we wanted to find some food and get back to our warm bed.
We found a pretty popular place and decided to relax and have some galbi or rib meat.
It was wonderful!
Bethany ordered some Dandelion wine, it was nice but not as nice as my yummy tea!
After all was said and done, we were full, and ready to find our way home and get some rest for Day 2
Stay tuned for our next adventure!
Do we navigate the treacherous subway systems?
Do we find Mexican food?
Does Bethany see her fishes?
Does Roland get the girl?
See you soon for another exciting installment of...
Our Chuseok Seoul Adventure!
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