So a while ago (I'm not even sure exactly when at this point -- a couple weekends ago at any rate) we went to Seoul (again) to visit Brandon and Jess, a couple that we met doing out TESL course in Peterborough.
It was good fun as always.
On the way to their new place (still in Itaewon, but about ten minutes' walk from where they used to live) we had to take a pedestrian underpass that we'd never been in before, and there was some really neat graffiti.
What was really striking was both the size of these pictures, and the medium in which they were drawn. They're entirely drawn using black permanent marker, and they're huge. We didn't get a shot of one of us standing beside them for scale, cause we didn't think of it, but they're about my height on the wall.
Anyway, so that was cool.
Once we got to Jess and Brandon's place, they showed us around their new apartment, which was beautiful. We went up to see the view from their roof, which is accessed via a particularly precarious stairway.
That night we went to hang out with some friends of theirs, and on the way stopped and got the best pizza I've had so far in Korea. It was also the most unique, since we bought it out of the back of a truck.
5,000 won got you a roughly 8-10 inch pizza with whatever toppings he had that you wanted, and it was delicious to the max.
The next day, Jess and Becca went to see a performance of Notre Dame de Paris, performed by the original French cast. Apparently it was spectacular, but I didn't go, so that's about all the details you're going to get from me.
Brandon and I went to check out Insadong, which is a neat little somewhat touristy market area. It was cool, because it was touristy without being full of Itaewon-style crappy tourist souvenir shops and more traditional craft and artisan shops as well as restaurants everywhere and loads of stuff to see. It was awesome.
I didn't get any pictures of Insadong, but I did get a shot of a really cool high-rise building on the way back.
I later found out that this is the (a?) Samsung building.
I also got a picture of a parked car to give y'all an idea of how steep some of the streets/driveways are in parts of Seoul. As I've said before, Korea's a very lumpy country, so the bigger cities all end up seeping up hills and around mountains and stuff, resulting in some awesome winding alleys and streets, but also some very steep climbs for cars.
That's not even the steepest incline we've seen cars parked on, it just happened to be positioned to give a good idea of the angle.
Anyway, that about sums up that trip, and we've gotten *REALLY* behind on our updating (for anyone still left reading this), so hopefully within the next day or two there'll be a couple more posts.
Bye for now!