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spyro25 · Joined: 23 Nov 2004

anyone from daves doing the fukuoka run from busan on feb 28th, coming back 2nd mar? i'd post in the travel forum but noone ever looks in there. wouldnt mind meeting anyone who was going over as i'd have two nights to kill (damn public holiday on the first!).

send me a pm if you are going and i'll try to let you know my details, i should be going on the earliest boat out there from busan on the 28th....

kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

Make sure you remember that the consulate will be closed on the 1st, so no picking up or dropping off on that day.

But no, not going.

KPRROK

spyro25 · Joined: 23 Nov 2004

phic11 · Joined: 08 Jan 2007

For a good cheap hotel,stay at the Maruko Inn Hotel downtown then carch the bus to the embassy.

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

I got stuck in Fukuoka for five days and had a wicked time. Dunno if you know, but a really good place to meet foreigners and the Japaneses who like them is "the Happy Caulk" bar in Tenjin. Unlike Dave's, they are permitted to spell 'caulk' properly. There is a good clean cheap hotel right near there as well, and a couple other nice-ish pub-stlye bars whose names elude me. Quite close to Tenjin station. Find a foreigner and ask them, they all know it like the back of their, uh, caulk.

The coolest stuff is on the other side of Tenjin though, where all the bars are about the size of an officetel, have few foreigners in, and are gimmicky and cool as all git out. Especially check out "Children Station" if you can find it, it's all weird toys and magic trick props, and the barman does the best, craziest card tricks I've ever seen. Friendly bunch too; seemed like everytime I went into a purely Japanese hipster bar, I made friends with people and was given presents. They like ignorant gumbooted foreign goofballs like me, I guess. I think it was largely because I was packing a Japanese-English dictionary and memorized how to say "I am an ignorant gumbooted foreigner goofball, and I don't belive your whiskey is any good so you have to buy me some to prove it."
Well, maybe not quite memorized...

Hyeon Een · Joined: 24 Jun 2005

Probably. It's new job time for March 1st..

Now it's time to decide on total country super low hours beautiful scenery job with lovely people, good money and 4 day work week; or big city Seoul, pay my Korean class for me Uni job.. choices choices..