Today is Saturday 7th October 2006

Still here in Soeul, more precisely in GANSEOGAGEORI - well that's a mouthfull isn't it. It's sort of in Incheon and on the outskirts of Soeul - see my report on Tripadviser about the hotel.

We let David have a rest today, we did our own thing. First of all we went to Incheon bus station to book up the bus ride to GAGNEUNG on Monday next, really quite straight forward, except for Suri wanting to buy more clothes - I persuaded her to leave it for now.

Then we decided to go into Soeul by bus - just for a change over the trains and tubes, and about the same time too - cost 2 quid for us both.

Then we went to DEOK SU GUNG PALACE, this was much smaller than GYEONGBOK PALACE that we visited the other day, and it was not a rebuild. There were however about 8 old style buildings and one newer Seokjojeon - built around 1909, and similar to much western architecture.

Then we wandered around the city hall square and found the CHEONGGYECHEON STREAM, which was originally concreted over with a fly over, but 3 years ago they decided to open up the stream and make it a tourist attraction, I have to say it is a must see in Soeul. It sure was busy.

We then found a nice place to eat at SONGNAE, we had chicken and sort of noodles in a spicy sauce cooked in front of us at our table, compared to the previous night it was 10 times better and only 19,000 yon - that's about 9 quid, and included a couple of beers -that's what I call VFM.

That's enough for now ----