More days in Soeul

Yesterday Wednesday the 4th Of October we went to the War Memorial of Korea in Soeul, we met David on the way. The weather was good again, in fact the weather has been much better than I expected, no rain, and really quite hot, so much so that the air conditioning in the hotel and on the trains is really most welcome - even for Suri.

Talking about the trains, they really are very good, clean and as I said air conditioned so even when you are squashed in like sardines - its not too bad. And the stations are really very big and cavernous.

Now I have got the hang of the directions it's really quite straight forward, even with very little signage in English. The one thing to say against them is the number of stairs, for example you go down one flight then another then walk what seems forever, then up some stairs, walk a little further then down some more stairs and if you have followed the signs there you are and the train arrives - that bit is fantastic.

Back to the Wae Memorial, I was very imprest, though it is not my sort of thing, though they let children climb in and over all of the kit ( oh yes we were big kids an all). All in all pretty impressive and certainly educational.

In the evening we went for fried chicken and beer - from a jug, I think its true to say this is David's favourite food at the moment - he was pretty excited about it.

I reckon the prices here in Soeul are about a third of those in the UK, really very cheap - but I am sure London is the most expensive place in the world, so every where we visit must be cheaper.

Today Thursday, we went to Insa - Dong, where there is a street market, we tried out some of the stall food here, which was pretty interesting though nothing too outragous ....

Then we went up the Namson Tower which is a bit like the Telecom Tower in London, but a little higher and its on the top of a hill so it looks much more impressive, to get up there we went on a packed cable car, so not as enjoyable as it could have been.

But the tower itself was really something and the views from the top were something else, you could walk and view all around, and on each window was written what was to be seen out of the window, on another level, they wrote the distance to places like London, The North Pole and Sydney. Oh and I had a lovely iced mocha coffee, Suri had a lovely Latti and David had a pecular green tea made from milk - very odd but very refreshing.

For dinner tonight we had a sort of beef neck stew, which we cooked before us as we sat crossed legged on the floor.

As I am writing this the hotel has just brought us some unusual sweet dish, which I think we saw someone making in the steet market, by hitting it with this enourmous wooden mallet. mmm very nice.