Korea 2024: Seoul Saturday

A real travel day. We took the high speed rail KTX from Gangneung to Seoul and moved into our last room in Korea.

Did sink laundry yesterday, With overcast weather, never dried. Kim used hair dryer on it yesterday.and I packed today.
The proprietor of our Pansion drove us to the KTX fast train and Kim was able to give her 10,000 Won. We are off!
We could only get 1 seat and one standing so I stood in the entry. More people getting on at the first stop.
There is some more images of the train ride but they are video and too large to load until I am home. Lunch in Seoul.
Strange picture of when the pizza came after we had been working on sausage and potatoes and chilli.
This image is a little better! The beer place, Craft Root, is very close to our hotel in a rabbit waren of shops.

I always forget to take a selfie of people I talk to. There was a couple at the next table speaking unaccented English but he appeared Korean. He had been traveling in the Middle East. Had gotten into everywhere, Gaza, Lebanon. Palestine, Israel, Irague. Had stories of many hour interrogations trying to get across boarders like into Israel. I introduced my self and got their short story. She is working for a Toronto University recruiting students from Korea. He was born in Korea but brought up in Toronto and is doing graduate work in Public Policy in Korea. They knew each other from previous positions in Toronto.

Lunch was a delay as we had to wait until 3pm to get into our room. We still have not set it up with snor machine etc.
Kim is not a fan of “room shots” especially this one where I forget to do it right away before I trashed the room!
We next walked around the area.
Came across 50 old men playing Korean chess. I tried to get them to tell me where the Go player meet but no luck.
Rough end to day. Could not Greek Niko. Italian was fine but Kim is running out of patience with impromptu travel.
We are in a wild area with 1000s of 18-25 year olds waiting 10-20 in a line outside street restaurants.
We really lucked out finding a good one with no wait. Images are RIGHT outside our hotel but no noise in the room!