The Grinch(es) take Seoul for Christmas

[bPeteb]

The hotel offered no breakfast so we had bought some 'stuff' from the supermarket across the road the night before. When we opened the curtains it was snowing! Very gently, and not enough to land, but it looked beautiful blowing around outside our room.

Hamee and his Sonata were waiting downstairs when we came out of the lift. We sat in the lobby and worked out a rough plan - south and east day one, north and wherever day two.

Destination one was the Osulloc Team Museum OSULLOC TEA MUSEUM. Both concerned this was nothing but a shopping stop and it kind of was, and kind of wasn't.

Obligatory shot standing in the tea across the road from the museum


then across the road into the architecturally stunning museum (and shop). We found the whole place lovely - the museum interesting, the buildings beautiful



including a room I would not normally take a picture in


and a cafe/shop with the most delicious treats



then it was on to Yongmeorihaean Coast (용머리해안) where if you squint and cough three times, the headland looks like a dragon. It was quite a spectacular sandstone headland that was a tad non-HSE.



There were a couple of women divers there selling their morning's catch/gather

 

[bPeteb]

Yongmeorihaean Coast (용머리해안) continued. Bizarrely we were pelted with sleet/micro hail as we were walking back to Hamee and the car.


Camellia Hill next. Again, not really our thing and this time, not really our thing. Hamee let us know how long we should take but we were back at the car way sooner

 

[bPeteb]

Lunch time. It was an unexpected delight. Neither of us is into fish with tiny bones and Jeju's speciality, the hairfish, is bloody full of them. But there we were agreeing to eat one. Hamee handed us the menu and the prices were a little, higher than I was expecting, until he pointed out the 67,000 KRW for two deal (some prices were 4x this).

We held our breath. Out it came and it was delicious. One of the staff scraped the bones off the top and bottom of the fish, peeled back the skin and away we went. Not a huge amount of flesh on it but gee it was good and a great experience to boot.


all we forgot to do was ask for a beer!

the rest of the afternoon was a decent amount of walking to various coastal waterfalls. I could look them all up but yeh, nah. All very picturesque, and as the afternoon got later, the walks got colder

 

[bPeteb]

more coastal rocks, more waterfalls, and a bridge or two. Maybe a waterfall too many but still we had a great day. Hamee was a very good driver and even better super friendly.

apart from tangerines and hairfish, another of Jeju's specialties is black pork. Al was a little concerned it was the colour of the meat but it's just the colour of the hair. Hamee highly recommended it and sent a few recommendations via WhatsApp after we got back to the hotel.

We didn't bother trying to make a reservation despite it being Friday night and off we wandered. We ended up at Doldam Black Pork and it was terrific. Great food, great service, great atmosphere and lovely cold beer Pork and huuuuuge mushroom cooked and cut up for us. Nothing better than pork on a bbq

 

[zig]

Food looks amazing.

 

[drron]

@bPeteb seeing those meals you are eating look amazing but huge. Is the first b now signifying biggerPeteb.

I put on 6Kg in our time in Bangkok. Fortunately 4 have disappeared in the 2 weeks back.

 

[bPeteb]

Actually lost weight Ron due to the amount of walking we did! Our new digs in the city, surrounded by restaurants and bars, might now be a problem.