two floors.

Nova and i are sitting in twofloors in soho. Those of you who know me well will know the love i have for this particular bar.
My old bank account has been reactivated, my old mobile sim, miracle of miracles still works, and nova didnt get any hassle from immigration comming through heathrow.
We got charged $300 aud excess baggage leaving seoul, and they didnt have a vegi meal for nova, so lufthansa, i here by rubbish you.

driving round korea

Nova and i are tucked away in between some of the most beautiful mountains ive ever seen. After we picked up mels car, we headed up the east coast of korea. We stopped at a place called gyong-ju and looked at some burial mounds. Then headed further up the coast to sockju where we stayed last night.
Yesterday we up into soraksan national park which is really beautiful, kind of like yellowstone national park. Lots of rocky mountains, and ice falls, and pine trees and stuff.
Today we went up to the DMZ again and this time got to look at north korea through the telescopes.
Tommorow were going to head back to chonan, where to nova used to work to meet up with mel again and give her back her car.
Ive also been looking for a contract in london, theres a few around so hopefully ill be able to find somthing pretty quickly.

yeosu

Nova and i are at "Yeosu" on the very southern tip of Korea, staying with Novas friend Mel.
We spent today hiking up a mountain with a couple of hundred koreans to visit some very beautiful buddist temples. Which i have photographed fully.
Tomorrow we are planning on stealing Mels car and driving it around korea for a week.

switch day

Yesterday i went snowboarding at Daemeyung Vivaldi ski resort about 2 hours from downtown seoul. The weather was perfect, the runs steep but completly without terrain and the snow dusty and light.
Seeing as it only took me 3 minutes top to bottom, and there was nothing but crowds of well dressed but not particually proficient korean kids to get air off, i decided to practice riding switch (backwards) for a day.
So i set my bindings to 0, -15 and had a brilliant day spinning round, jumping 180s, and playing spot the round-eye.
My final score for the day was, wait for it: 0
By the end of the day the runs were taking 3 minutes again, so i must have improved my switch riding a lot.
Afterwards i went looking for some apre ski action before the bus ride home, only to discover the koreans complete and terrifying disintrest in the snow/beer combination.
The ride home was uneventful, except i didnt know which bus to catch, because firstly, i couldnt read the signs on the front, and secondly, i didnt know where i got _on_ the bus. The korean drivers had a good laugh at my expense then sat me up the front of a bus which they assured me would take me within a cab rides distance from itaewan.
Today we're off to the DMZ to look at north korea through telescopes.
Nova and ive been looking at some part time jobs, but part time work will barely cover our living expences, and full time work requires a 6 month commitment, which we're not prepared to make at the moment. I think well probably just stay here a month of so more then head to the UK.

I second the no more carrying heavy shit motion.

Nova, hence forth refered to as Noba and i (hence forth refered to as see-mon) are in korea.

We arrived on planet korea late thurdsay night. Planet korea is sort of like earth except it's really cold and far from the sun, and the inhabitents write with a weird alien script.
The airport limosine (really a bus) dropped us at a place called myongdong.
We then lugged our stuff a few hundred metres down hill till we realised there was no way we would be able to find a place to while carting our whole collection of bags with us. So i stood guard in the -6 degree night air while Noba went and found somewhere to stay.
We spent our first couple of nights in a very comfortable "love motel" (lob motel) watching korean tv, enjoying the warmth of heated floors and learning to read korean script. I can already sound out all the korean characters (theres only 20 of them) but i dont know what the words mean obvioulsly.
This morning we got a cab over to itewan, which is the kingscross equivalent of seoul. We have checked into a dodgy little motel (yoog-wan) for a week while we get our bearings and work out what we're doing on planet korea.