Ulsan

I went to Ulsan yesterday to see a friend I knew from the US.  I took the bus to get there and had to change in Eonyang, it was the quickest and easiest way to get to Ulsan from Tongdosa, but I had never done the riute before, in all honesty it wasn't actually that hard and only took about an hour and a half plus it only cost about 2500 won in all.

Shortly after arriving at my friend's place my other mate joined us, the brit this is and we went out for a Korean version of ribs, not too bad in all, but I often find there is not quite enough, especially when I'm enjoying it.  I also sampled some cognac from my friend's place and in return I let him have a swig of the 18 year old single malt glenfiddich I had with me, not much there though.

Then we went out to a westernish bar, not too bad there either, played some pool and some darts and let the night slip away.  Not overly eventful but a pretty fun night in all.

Now today was interesting, not really good interesting, but the random stuff that I seem to come across in Korea. I had to find my way back home via bus.  Now generally you'd think that wouldn't be too bad, because you just hop on at the bus depot and go on your merry way in the reverse of how I arrived.  However that was not the case, my bus apparently does not make an appearance at the depot, so me and the other brit had a wander around the various buildings housing bus departure and had to go back and forth until we finally found the 'Tourist Information' section, where the woman spoke a fair amount of English and pointed me in the right direction.

Once I had parted ways with my mate I had to wait for about half an hour for my bus to arrive, but while I was waiting I did see two things that were a little strange for Korea.  The first was a whole white family got off a bus, I mean it was a mum and a dad and four kids aging in range.  I made the assumption that they must live in Korea, but I suppose it's possible they could be visiting, but I doubt it.  We didn't interact it was just a sight I have not beheld while in Korea up until now.  Then just shortly after that a rather portly man wandered past with his friends and he had a very bandy legged walk, close to a waddle in fact.  This sort of fella would probably fairly common place in the West, but here in Korea, people are generally not fat and those that are, are generally proportionally fat, not this guy, he mainly had a stomach on him.

The bus ride took a bit to get back, but once off the first bus it was plain sailing.

So again this is not really an exciting post but it was my weekend and some of the stuff I saw was quite obscure for here, especially since I'm from such a small town.  Night.