After talking to the owners wife, Kyle and I decided it would not be a good idea to ride in the bus for 7 hours to Sokcho, so we took two trains to Seoul. Before we left we went to a PC café and found a ton of boys playing video games! Then we grabbed a sandwich and went to the train station. It was a pretty uneventful train ride, and when we got to Seoul, we confidently took the subway and then walked to our hotel. We stayed at the Sunbee Hotel two nights in a row (another Lonely Planet recommendation in Insadong). It is so refreshing not having to pack up and move each day!
After checking-in we went to do the usual, find food! We saw so many young couples on the street with matching shirts on, Kyle and I were inspired to get our own matching shirts, but never got around to it. We stopped at a little restaurant and I had curry and rice and Kyle had some noodle, actually Kyle ordered the curry but I didn’t like the noodles so he let me have his! They had squid in the noodles and I was so sick of seafood by this time. After we ate we people watched for a little bit, and then went to the huge book store. It was tough being in this huge bookstore but then only be limited to a small section of English books, and not be able to read any of the other books in the store! I got a novel to read, The Historian, strangely about Dracula, but so fat it is a good book. Then we went off to have dessert. Green tea ice cream over shaved ice, with cherry tomatoes (strange but good) and we had a pomegranate milk shake (by the way I have not had enough calcium since I left!) I have had maybe two glasses of milk the whole time I have been gone!) Insadong is known for tea shops, and this one served dessert as well. We had a great table on the second floor over looking the street, with these huge swing out windows. While we had our dessert Kyle watched 4 different people scope out this pile of trash to see if there was anything good in it! Then it was off to bed!
