North Korea detonates nuclear explosion

Well we are about 20 miles from North Korea in GANGNEUNG, and according to the news North Korea has exploded their first nuclear bomb somewhere north of here. I do not have a radiation detector but I am hoping we are ok.

We arrived by bus today from Soeul coming across country passing some beautiful scenery, the leaves on the trees are about to start turning autumnal, also this is where they do ski-ing in the winter.

Now we have booked into the Four seasons Hotel - see website:

http://www.four-seasons.co.kr/

I will submit my report about the hotel on Tripadviser after we leave, as of now it's pretty good, Suri has gone down to ask for another towel and to ask how to use the phone - it's all in Korean!! and I'm sure it's not been used before.

Our room is on the beach front on the 3rd floor overlooking the sea which at the moment is pretty rough ( check out the pictures) so I don't expect an invasion from the North Koreans at the moment.

But the South Koreans are taking no chances as the beach has barbed wire along the top of the beach, though there are breaks in it to let us tourists go onto the beach.

The barbed wire fence is currently being checked out, as I write by the South Korean military and to top it all there are search lights fanning out across the sea, right up in front of us - wow this is spooky.

So anything could happen.

Tonight we had shell fish soup cooked in front of us, such a lot of shell fish, and only 18 quid including a couple of beers - just amazing, this is the life.....