Sat 1 Oct, Day 19/61. I love the centre of Seoul so much, it’s definitely now one of my favourite cities. This is the best season in Korea: the evenings are still warm, but not too hot. The centre of Seoul is full of energy and people, but feels safe.

Sat 1 Oct, Day 19/61. Final breakfast in Osan this morning with my kind and generous hosts, Father Aeduk Kim and his wife Tabitha. So grateful to them for the past fortnight. And so now for four weeks living in the heart of Seoul.

Sat 1 Oct 2022, Day 19/61. As I bought this in a Seoul shop I thought Marathon Bars – sorry – ‘Snickers’ – had once again changed their name. But no, this is temporarily named after a song by K-pop giants BTS, here on video. youtu.be/RvcP6V4h_q4.

I’ve just remembered this noticeboard in Sokcho. I don’t remember anything similar in Weston-super-Mare.

Thu 29 Sep 2022. Day 17/61. My favourite photo. Suwon (수원) is best known for its Fortress & for being the home of Samsung Electronics. I was the guest of a local politician who belongs to our link church. I noticed a balloon floating over the Fortress …

Mon 26 Sep 2022, Day 14/61. A great conversation via Google Translate with this resident, born in 1962 to a family presumably already here for 10 years. (When he discovered I was born before him, he adopted the traditional Korean deference to their elders!)

Mon 26 Sep 2022, Day 14/61, I went to experience Abai Village, originally set up to house North Korean refugees. Some of their families still live here. Sokcho was originally in North Korea, but after the war ended up south of the new border.

Mon 26 Sep 2022, Day 14/61. On Monday I took a solo trip across Korea by bus to the north-eastern port of Sokcho (속초), popular with tourists for its nearby national park, mountains and lakes. But that’s not why I went.