Deciphering Hanguel

Wed 14 Sep 2022, Day 2/62. Time to start making sense of the language & signs around me. One thing I have done is learnt the Korean alphabet, Hanguel, 한글. So I can work out that the most prominent sign in my view of Seoul, 한화생명, (hanwha saeng myeong), is Hanwha Life, a big life insurance company.

A great restaurant

Tue 13 Sep 2022. Day 1/61. I began to fall in love with Seoul back in September 2019 when I was taken out to a great restaurant by locals. This evening I walked out of my hotel in search of food, and guess which was the first restaurant I stumbled across? An omen.

I’m having such a great meal here three years later. I think this might be my favourite restaurant in the whole world. Meanwhile Fitbit tells me I’ve had less than four hours sleep in the last 36 hours. A lie-in might be on the cards.

Arriving at last

Tue 13 Sep 2022, Day 1/61. Finally arrived in my Seoul Hotel Room, 25 hours after setting out from Kettering. Great to take my mask off after 16 hours. Just three nights here, the first of seven places I’m staying in South Korea.