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[ratslash]

in which seems to be my annual christmas jaunt to see my lovely fiancee and hot damn is it cold this year!!! i never remember it being this cold so early in december. the river is already frozen, i only ever remember it being frozen in january at the earliest, and i have never seen it frozen so much. it is near enough frozen from side to side on a river which is twice as wide as thames. in other words it is bloody freezing here!

seoul is its usual busy bustling place. it seems more chrismassy here though this year. lots of the shops have decorations up and there are even a few model father christmases dotting the street! what must be one of the main reasons to come to korea for a holiday, the food, is something i have been missing, so i have been cramming as much down me as i can over the weekend, although we did go indian and have a curry on saturday! friday night we went for my favorite korean meal, whose name escapes me at the moment, and then to a university area for some beer. pretty damn good drinking miller listening to oasis with my lovely fiancee beside me....!

the pros and cons of seoul are never far from my mind when arrive here after a long period away. for example, standing outside the airport in minus five, waiting for a bus to take me to the city centre, how long would you be waiting in england? oh, hang on, it is minus five, everything grounds to a halt in england when it gets below freezing so i would STILL be waiting for a bus if i had been visiting england. anyway, in seoul the bus comes every few minutes and that is something the koreans excel at, this kind of efficiency. however, you soon remember what the cons are when you are trying to board the subway and a four and half feet tall grandma starts swinging them elbows right into your kidneys!!! and then one must remember the food, but then you remember the stares as you try to eat your meal. do they expect a flap to open in the top of my head and for me to shovel the food into a hole in my head?!?!?

anyway, seoul is a place that you love to hate and hate to love.

[SPINOZA]

I love Seoul myself. There's something severely the matter with anyone who comes here and has a sh1te time. They'd be bloody bored watching Olivier play Hamlet! I've been to New York, Sydney, Las Vegas, Florence, Venice, Rome, Milan, Singapore, Istanbul too - so I'm expertly qualified to comment.

Horrible avatar by the way, Ratslash.