Seoul.

I survived my weekend in Seoul, but only just! We all got there about 3pm on Saturday and headed straight for our backpackers. We foolishly decided to take the Subway for the first part of the journey there. I thought the Busan Subway was huge, well, Seoul's is massive. We spent about an hour wandering around, trying to find the right lines, then the right levels and then the right directions. It was a little piece of chaos that left us surprisingly in good spirits. After we got off the Subway we took a taxi the rest of the way, there were too many of us for one taxi so had to get two. You can imagine me jumping in to the second taxi and yelling "Follow that Cab!" to a driver who can't speak English! We got dropped off at the wrong backpackers, shit happens, but we managed to get the lady to ring up our backpackers and asked them to come and pick us up. We got picked up all right, 7 of us got picked up by a dude on a bicycle!.W.T.F!

After drinking for a few hours at the nearest pub we could find we headed off in the general direction of Hongik University. (It's the same the world over, head to a university and you will find beer) after bar hopping for a while we all started getting a wee bit drunk and one of us was in no position to carry on (Bloody Aussies!) We had our doubts if she could even find her way back to the Hostel so myself and another decided to take her home ourselves, when we got back to the area to find our mates I spotted a bon fire. Now I love a good fire and to to see a group of Koreans sitting around a fire in the middle of this massive urban environment, drinking beers and playing guitars I just had to go over. I was expecting them to not speak English, but they did! I was in Heaven, a quick stop to the dairy across the way to buy some beer ensured that I got a turn on the guitar! Every so often someone would get up to find some more wood, it really is amazing the shit that was just on the street in Seoul! There was a Korean dude who could play and sing like Thom Yorke! he pulled out Radiohead after Radiohead. Before I knew it the place was crawling with foreigners, I met a chick from Napier! I must have stayed there for at least three hours playing as many New Zealand songs as I could and am proud to say my rendition of Teen Spirit got the crowd moshing! After we left there around 5ish we attempted to get back to the Hostel. We could not for the life of us find the dam place! We managed to get back to the right suburb, but had no luck finding it so checked into another motel, paid through the nose for it but the next afternoon when we woke up we realised how flash it really was, it had the net, a spa bath and so much free stuff I didn't have enough pockets, a huge T.V that had this curious little box beside it. On further investigation I saw that it had a picture of a naked lady on it and a slot to put in 1000wan bills. (Thats about a Kiwi dollar) so I duly paid my dollar and was rewarded with 20 minutes of Korean Porn. I was in Hysterics.

More coming later, I'm too hungry to write.