A mystery (taxi) tour today - Tuesday 10th October 2006

Today we asked how far was it to the DAEGWALLYEONG MUSEUM, and was told by the lady on reception - not far just take a taxi as she pointed along the street and around the corner, well half an hour or more later we arrived, and it was in the middle of nowhere so we asked the taxi driver if he could could come back at 1pm - he agreed.

The museum and the surrounds were really very good, very impressive, when the taxi driver returned we pointed at another close attraction at DAEGWALLYENG fOREST so off we set, we thought he was asking about our hotel, then I realised he was heading back to the hotel, so after I pointed again at the picture - he said "sorry" and turned around - the place was just around the corner - 5 minutes from the musem, but then it was closed.

So we looked at the map again and pointed at UNIFACTION PARK at JEONGDONGJIN, he set off ar great speed, and then I realised that this was a lot further than we had expected.

Eventually we arrived and the park was in fact a US WW II warship that the Koreans had bought and used, plus a North Korean Submarine they had nabbed - we went around both of them, they were much better than I expected with lots of children running around - all in all impressive.

We decided to ask the taxi driver to take us to JEONGDONGJIN where we paid up - the hire of the taxi cost us about 37 quid, including wating time, which I think turned out pretty good.

By this time we were pretty hungry,so we decided to catch the train back to GANGNEUNG - a lot cheaper I have to say.

We went into this cafe and Suri said I'll have what they were having - pointing across to another table - I said make that 2, .... well Iced noodle soup is not as bad a it sounds, and the lumps of ice cooled us down.

After that we wandered around the market, then took another taxi ride to GYEONGPO Park, which is on the way to the hotel, then another taxi ride back to the hotel.

All in all a bit of a mystery tour of a day.

As we are by the seaside we went to a fish restaurant there are many around here - on the map it says sushi centre, each has live fish outside in tanks. So we decided on a squid each, and of course it was swimming about 1 minute and 5 minutes later there it was on a plate - uncooked of course in front of us. We tucked in to it but Suri wanted it cooked, so they put what was left of it - about three quarters I guess into a pot and boiled it in a mobile gas stove on the table in front of us.

I liked it both ways uncooked and cooked, but there was a a lot of it.

On the way backI noticed that the South Korean army were still checking out the beach and the floodlights are still on.

We,ve decided to stay another night - Suri did her bit on negotiating the rate and knocked it down from 80,ooo to 65,000 won, that's a saving of about 7 quid.