Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Enjoy yourself! Never been there myself, so looking forward to your travelogue. Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Three for one today, but then again, it was my first evening in Seoul! > > I arrived at my posh hotel in the Gangnam district around 7 p.m. local > time, after a comfortable 11-hour flight from Rome during which I was able > to sleep what amounted to an almost normal night. So I was certainly not > going to relax in the hotel. No, I had studies the Lonely Planet guidebook > on the plane, and equipped with a subway map, I set out to find the > Kwangjang street market--quite far from the hotel, but it seemed worth it > and I had very much enjoyed these street markets and the food when I was > in Taiwan 2 years ago. So I hoped to find something similar here. > > First, a snap from the subway, of a couple that could just as well have > been on the Barcelona metro: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2944006386&k=k8p2M8g&lb=1&s=O > > Then I reached the market and walked around admiring all the amazing > foods. These guys flagged me down and insisted that I sit down and have a > few drinks with them, as well as some uden-type pasta (but shaped as > rectangles) in a delicious spicy broth. The guy on the left was > celebrating his 46th birthday. Their English was extremely basis, and my > Korean is non-existent, but we managed just fine: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2944006642&k=WrkwZmK&lb=1&s=O > > After saying goodbye to my newfound friends, I sat down at this lady's > stall to have a kind of pancake stuffed with all manner of goodness and > served with some spice veggies on the side. Together with a large beer, > the meal set me back the grand sum of 7 Euro or so, and I could have had > more if I had found more space in my stomach. The lady was very proud of > having appeared in a travel magazine: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2944006854&k=Kw65hNc&lb=1&s=O > > A very promising first evening in Seoul. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > Blog: > http://www.nathansmusings.eu/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information