Today ended up being quiet, not venturing far. We wanted to secure a hotel room in Busan that was as close as possible to the Railway Station and saved us money. To do this we needed to hop back and forwards between booking.com and google maps, neither of which do a passable job of locating railway stations. We booked a room in the Hansung Motel for AUD35 per night, and it is hopefully only 300 meters from the station. We will check in on Sunday and contact the shipping agent for Salzburg on Monday.
Yesterday we went to the hotel reception and booked ourselves into a Korean Folk Village Tour for this afternoon. We went down at 12.40 to be picked up for a 1pm tour, but no one turned up. Either it was cancelled or they booked us for the wrong day. Never mind, it was very expensive compared to Incheon so we did our own walking tour of the local area Gangnam. The main streets have the office towers of all the big corporations and the fancy shops, while the back lanes are full of small eating places: Korean, Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian, American and German.
There must be a hundred Starbucks in Seoul. And of course there is always an authentic Irish Pub.
We found the taxi rank where we gave up our search for the hotel on our first day here and it took us 4 minutes to walk from there back to the hotel. How does the hotel have a street number of 642, when it is located in a short back lane? They must use an address system like the Japanese one.
For a big city Seoul is ahead of most others we have been to. The streets are clean and the traffic jams are not too long. Car horns are heard only occasionally. Every large building has fire hydrants poking out of the front and these are all polished.
Yesterday we went to the hotel reception and booked ourselves into a Korean Folk Village Tour for this afternoon. We went down at 12.40 to be picked up for a 1pm tour, but no one turned up. Either it was cancelled or they booked us for the wrong day. Never mind, it was very expensive compared to Incheon so we did our own walking tour of the local area Gangnam. The main streets have the office towers of all the big corporations and the fancy shops, while the back lanes are full of small eating places: Korean, Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian, American and German.
There must be a hundred Starbucks in Seoul. And of course there is always an authentic Irish Pub.
We found the taxi rank where we gave up our search for the hotel on our first day here and it took us 4 minutes to walk from there back to the hotel. How does the hotel have a street number of 642, when it is located in a short back lane? They must use an address system like the Japanese one.
For a big city Seoul is ahead of most others we have been to. The streets are clean and the traffic jams are not too long. Car horns are heard only occasionally. Every large building has fire hydrants poking out of the front and these are all polished.
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